In this highly competitive admissions season, a handful of high school students have beat the odds in stunning ways.
Like Ariyana Davis, a Chicago high school student, who received acceptances to 22 colleges. Yes, 22 schools.
On top of that, she got $300,000 in scholarships.
Her strategy? She says she used the Common Black College Application. The website supports a single application submission for up to 50 historically black colleges and universities for only $35.
Davis told Chicago’s ABC7 News she’ll be attending Alcorn State University in Mississippi. She’s already looking down the road for a master’s degree, possibly at the University of Illinois.
Down in Maryland, Olawunmi Akinlemibola put in the hard work and got accepted to 14 schools.
Amherst, Brown, Cornell, Duke, Emory, Grinnell, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Swarthmore all gave offers to Akinlemibola. University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania — and two University of Maryland campuses accepted her too. And some schools offered full four-year scholarships to this 4.19 GPA student, who also holds 53 college credits by taking college courses via her school district’s early college program for high school students.
“I didn’t think I was going to get in anywhere,” Akinlemibola told Washington D.C. radio news station, WTOP. “I cried.”
Quadruplet brothers in Ohio all got accepted in Yale and Harvard, along with some other schools.
The Wade brothers, quadruplets from Cincinnati, all just got accepted into the top ivy league schools in the U.S. This deserves recognition.
The Wade brothers‘ acceptances include these: Aaron Wade received an offer from Stanford, Nick heard positive offers from Duke, Georgetown and Stanford, while Nigel got into Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt and Zach made it into Cornell.
“We’re still in shock, honestly,” Aaron Wade said to the Washington Post. “I don’t think it has sunk in yet.”
The Wade brothers don’t yet know if they’ll be going to school together as quadruplets or if they’ll be going their separate ways. However, Aaron is interested in studying computer science and cognitive science, Nick is into international relations, as Nigel wants to study neuroscience and Zack engineering.
The stories don’t stop there: Four high school students say they’ve gotten into every single Ivy League school. This is quite a feat this year especially, as many of the eight Ivy League universities and colleges have reported record high application numbers and record low acceptance rates.
The 4.67 GPA student additionally got acceptances from Amherst College, John Hopkins, Northwestern, NYU, Stanford, University of Southern California, and other schools in the University of California.
“Like in the 9th grade, I’d see these articles like oh ‘New Jersey teen’ or ‘New York teen got into all eight Ivy Leagues,’” Vazquez said to local 7KTVB news. “And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, like, they must have cured cancer or something.’”
Now he’s one of those students himself.
The trend of awe-inspiring admissions this semester doesn’t end at undergrad. Chelsea Batista, a soon-to-be-graduate of Brooklyn College, got into 11 medical schools for continued studies on her career path.
She has heard yeses from Albert Einstein College, Columbia, Drexel, Hofstra, Howard, Mount Sinai, New York University, Tufts, Weill Cornell, and two campuses at SUNY. She says two schools have also offered her full scholarships.
发表于 2017-5-28 10:14:11
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