Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey high school student, born by Nigerian
parents, has racked up acceptances from all eight Ivy League schools.
She got admitted to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Stanford.
Ifeoma who attends Morris Hills High School in Denville, is now figuring
out which of the prestigious schools she’d like to go to in order to
further her education, which she thinks will be focused on global
health.
Her proud parents, Andre and Patricia White-Thorpe, said they will leave
the final decision up to the brilliant teen. Patricia, nee Eluemunor,
is a pharmacist, according to her records, while the husband is a
computer expert.
Ifeoma told WABC.
“I want to go into global health and study biology, and so many of them
have great research facilities, so I was like, I might as well just
shoot my shot and apply,”
“I got into Harvard early-action, so I
figured I’ll just go there, so then I got into all the others and I was
like, ‘Wait, now I don’t know where I want to go,’” Ifeoma added.
When she got her acceptance letters, she almost couldn’t believe it.
“I was shaking, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be
eight out of eight,’ and I clicked it and it said ‘Congratulations,’ and
I was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’ and then I was like, ‘What did I say?’”
she recalled. “I think my love for poetry and writing just really stood
out.”
“At this point, none of the schools I’ve applied to said they
give merit scholarships, so I’m praying that they give me some more
financial aid or some money. Shout out to all of those schools, please
give me something,” Ifeoma said with a laugh.
The Ivy League is made of up Brown University, Columbia University,
Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the
University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University.
Students getting into all of the Ivies is a monumental feat, but it’s
happened to a handful of teens over the past couple of years — Kwasi
Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly
Hyles last year.