By Associated Press, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article
MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. — Yale is the pick for the son of Ghanaian immigrants who made U.S. national headlines after being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.
By Associated Press, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article
MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. — Yale is the pick for the son of Ghanaian immigrants who made U.S. national headlines after being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.
In a move usually reserved for highly-recruited athletes, a suburban New York high school-student who was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools announced Wednesday before a phalanx of national media cameras that he has decided to be a member of Yale University’s Class of 2018.
He explained he had been thinking about Yale, but the clincher was a campus visit last week.
“I met geniuses from all across the world and everyone there was so friendly and inviting and the residential college system there is just wonderful for each student,” the 17-year-old Shirley resident told reporters.
Kwasi Enin, whose parents emigrated from Ghana in the 1980s, attracted national attention this spring after being accepted at all eight Ivies plus several New York state colleges.
On his application essay to the Ivy League schools, the teenager wrote passionately about his love for music, although his intention is to someday go to medical school and become a physician.
Enin was joined at the news conference by his parents, Ebenezer and Doreen Enin, and his 14-year-old sister, Adwoa.
Ebenezer Enin said he and his wife have encouraged both of their children to excel in the classroom.
“I believe you can do better than him,” he said he told his daughter.
Enin was also accepted at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.
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