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Inspiring! Nigerian Teen Gets Accepted into 8 Ivy League Schools & Stanford

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Nigerian-American Ifeoma White-Thorpe has to make a decision soon and it is a decision most can only dream of. She has to decide on which Ivy League school to attend because she has been accepted into all nine of the schools (including Stanford) she applied to.

The 17-year-old High-school senior and student government president at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, New Jersey has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and Stanford.

Speaking to WABC she said, “I want to go into global health and study biology and so many of them have great research facilities, so I was like, I might as well just shoot my shot and apply,”

Watch her Interview with WABC here

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