Nigerian Teen Admitted by 8 Ivy League Schools [PHOTO]
Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a New Jersey high school student, born by Nigerian parents, has done a clean sweep of her college applications, racking up acceptances from all eight Ivy League schools as well as Stanford, just for good measure. She got admitted to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Stanford. Ifeoma who attends Morris Hills High School in Denville, is now dealing with a happier problem—figuring out which of the prestigious schools she’d like to go to in order to further her education, which she thinks will be focused on global health. Her proud parents, Andre, a computer expert and Patricia, a pharmacist, said they will leave the final decision up to her. “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,” Ifeoma told WABC. “I got into Harvard early-action, so I figured I’ll just go there, so then I got into all the others a...