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New York Student Accepted at all 8 Ivy League Schools<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Source: The New York Post<\/p>\n

Meet Harold Ekeh – The most popular High School Senior in New York City Right now! He applied and was accepted to all 8 Ivy League Schools. This is no small feat considering, statistics indicate that its getting harder and harder to get into a coveted ivy league school. See an <\/span>Aspire-Canada related article on Stanford University right here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elmont Memorial HS senior Harold Ekeh boasts a grade-point average of 100.5 percent, an SAT score of 2270 and was a semifinalist for the national Intel Science Talent Search.<\/p>\n

Ekeh now has his pick of the nation\u2019s elite institutions of higher learning: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania \u2014 none of which accept more than 14 percent of applicants.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Post, Ekeh is leaning toward Yale, where Kwasi Enin, 18, the son of Ghanaian immigrants from Mastic Beach, LI, who completed the Ivy sweep last year, now attends.\u00a0Ekeh moved to New York from Nigeria at age 8 and wowed admissions officers with an essay about the challenges he braved while \u201ccoming to America\u201d.
\n\u201cMy parents left comfortable lives in Nigeria for their kids to have opportunities. So I take advantage of every single opportunity that has been afforded to me,\u201d said Ekeh, who hopes to become a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n

In his free time he does what most other teens his age don\u2019t do \u2014 toiling over biochemistry experiments. His grandma\u2019s Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis \u2014 and his own inspiration to find a cure for the degenerative brain disease \u2014 fueled his passion for science, he said.<\/p>\n

The hardworking student, a salutatorian who also plays the drums, mentors and volunteers for a social-justice campaign, credited his parents, Paul and Roselin \u2014 former clerks at a Target store in Queens \u2014 for challenging him to study and do his best, \u201cno matter how hard times got,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ekeh was accepted into the other five schools he applied to: MIT, NYU, Johns Hopkins University, Stony Brook University and Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Student Accepted at all 8 Ivy League Schools                         Source: The New York Post Meet Harold Ekeh – The most popular High School Senior in New York City Right now! He applied and was accepted to all 8 Ivy League Schools. This…<\/p>\n

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