A Elmont Memorial High School senior has been accepted to all eight Ivy-League schools
Like 17-year-old Ghanaian Kwasi Enin did last year, a Nigerian high school senior Harold Ekeh, also 17, has been accepted into all eight Ivy-League universities. Now, he’s just trying to decide which one to go. Ekeh got into all 13 schools he applied to, including MIT and John Hopkins. He speaks Igbo and Spanish, and he has a 100.5% GPA.
I am leaning toward Yale. I competed at Yale for Model UN, and I like the passion people at Yale had.”
The NY teen, who came to the United States with his parents when he was only eight from Nigeria, wants to major in neurobiology or chemistry in college, and ultimately he wants to be a neurosurgeon. He was named a 2015 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalist earlier this year for his research on how the acid DHA can slow Alzheimer’s. His grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was 11-years-old, and one of his proudest moments was sharing with his family the breakthroughs he has discovered with DHA.
I am very humbled by this. It’s not just for me, but for my school and community. We can accomplish great things here.”
Ekeh has founded a college mentoring program at his school, Elmont Memorial High School located in Long Island, NY. His goal is to get more students into top universities. Harold will be spending the coming weeks visiting all the schools before he makes his final decision.
-Infinite Wiz (@InfiniteWiz)