Some just have everything going for them.
Very few high school students are accepted to one Ivy League college. But for a 17-year-old New York student, it's a matter of which one he wants to attend in the fall.
That's because Kwasi Enin received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League universities, according to a report from USA Today.
"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," Nancy Winkler, Enin's guidance councelor at William Floyd High School on Long Island, told USA Today. "It’s a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary."
Enin told USA Today by phone that Princeton has offered the most generous aid package, though he's still waiting to see how much he is offered from Columbia, Cornell and Harvard.
Katherine Cohen, a college admissions expert and founder of IvyWise, told the newspaper that Enin has "a lot of things in his favor."
For one thing, he's a young man, which Cohen says stands out because application pools skew heavily towards girls. According to the U.S. Department of Education, females made up 57 percent of college students in degree-granting institutions last year.
On his SATs, Enin scored 2,250 out of 2,400 points. That puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students, according to the report. Enin is a first generation American from Ghana, which also helps him stand out, Cohen said. "He's not a typical African-American kid," she told USA Today.
But when Enin graduates from high school, he won't be the school's valedictorian — he ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd.
While Enin isn't sure which Ivy he'll be attending in the fall, he knows for sure that he wants to study medicine, just like both of his parents, who are both nurses.
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2...chools_offered_most_money_from_princeton.html
Very few high school students are accepted to one Ivy League college. But for a 17-year-old New York student, it's a matter of which one he wants to attend in the fall.
That's because Kwasi Enin received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League universities, according to a report from USA Today.
"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," Nancy Winkler, Enin's guidance councelor at William Floyd High School on Long Island, told USA Today. "It’s a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary."
Enin told USA Today by phone that Princeton has offered the most generous aid package, though he's still waiting to see how much he is offered from Columbia, Cornell and Harvard.
Katherine Cohen, a college admissions expert and founder of IvyWise, told the newspaper that Enin has "a lot of things in his favor."
For one thing, he's a young man, which Cohen says stands out because application pools skew heavily towards girls. According to the U.S. Department of Education, females made up 57 percent of college students in degree-granting institutions last year.
On his SATs, Enin scored 2,250 out of 2,400 points. That puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students, according to the report. Enin is a first generation American from Ghana, which also helps him stand out, Cohen said. "He's not a typical African-American kid," she told USA Today.
But when Enin graduates from high school, he won't be the school's valedictorian — he ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd.
While Enin isn't sure which Ivy he'll be attending in the fall, he knows for sure that he wants to study medicine, just like both of his parents, who are both nurses.
https://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2...chools_offered_most_money_from_princeton.html
