Dive Brief:
- Kwasi Enin, 17, of Shirley, N.Y., has been accepted by all eight Ivy League universities.
- College counselors say that this is an extremely rare feat—no kidding. He has also been accepted by three State University of New York schools and Duke University.
- Enin is a first-generation African-American whose parents emigrated from Ghana in the 1980s.
Dive Insight:
Sure, he was accepted by some of the most elite schools in America, but what about Wal-Mart? What makes Enin so attractive to the Ivy League? He’s a violinist, an a capella group singer, ranked 11th in his high school class of 647 students, his combined SAT score was 2,250 points out of 2,400 — in the 99th percentile for African-American students. He will have taken 11 Advanced Placement classes by the time he graduates high school and he volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospital. He wants to study music and medicine—both of his parents are nurses.
