A teenager of Nigerian descent, Ifeoma White-Thorpe, has been accepted by all eight Ivy League schools in the United States of America (USA), as well as Stanford University.
It would be recalled that a Nigerian girl, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, got accepted in 2016 while another Nigerian, Harold Ekeh, made it a year earlier in 2015, both were from Elmont Memorial High School in Long Island, New York.
This makes it the third year in a row a Nigerian is achieving this feat.
Ifeoma, a student of Morris Hills High School in Denville, said she was literally shaking when she got the eighth acceptance letter and she is yet to make up her mind on which school to attend.
“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!” White-Thorpe told CNN affiliate WABC-TV.
White-Thorpe, a senior and student government president at her school, has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown.
She wants to study biology and pursue a career in global health. Since all of the Ivy League schools “have great research facilities,” she decided to apply to them all.
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Her proud parents, Andre and Patricia White-Thorpe, said they will leave the final decision up to the brilliant teen, granted with the letters she has in front of her, there’s really not a bad choice she can make.
Patricia, nee Eluemunor, is a pharmacist, according to her records, while the husband is a computer expert.
