Kwasi-Enin: Ghanaian-American Accepted at All 8 Ivy League Schools

[News]

April 1, 2014 | Posted by Nick Chiles

A 17-year-old Black boy from Long Island, New York, has pulled off a rare run of the Ivy League table – he has been accepted by all eight of the prestigious schools.

Kwasi Enin, a violist and aspiring doctor from Shirley, NY, is going to have to make a tough decision by May 1, when he’s going to notify one of the top eight schools in the nation that he will be part of its class of 2018.

Enin told USA Today that he had gotten the most generous aid package thus far from Princeton—but he hasn’t yet heard from Columbia, Cornell or Harvard about financial aid. Enin is interested in pursuing careers in both music and medicine.

His parents are both nurses, hailing from Ghana. They emigrated to New York in the 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby.

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[leslie]

Good on him that he could choose among all 8 top-rated (not assuming that they are good in the true sence) universities. But why are students not encouraged to apply to all the top-rated schools? Why the need to break down his stats? If it were a white student I'm sure they would not have felt the need to do so. And why the need (although that could be a point) to mention that he is first-generation African-American? Do colleges take that into consideration when selecting students?