Nigerian-born Ifeoma White-Thorpe admitted by all 8 Ivy League schools

A New Jersey high school student, Ifeoma White-Thorpe, born by Nigerian parents,  has caught the attention of many as she was recently accepted by all eight Ivy League schools in the United States.

The 17-year-old got admitted to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton and Stanford.

                                           

Ifeoma who is a senior student at Morris Hills High School in Denville, have to figure 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 parents, Andre and Patricia White-Thorpe, said they will leave the final decision up to the brilliant teen. Patricia, nee Eluemunor, is a pharmacist, according to her records, while the husband is a computer expert.

 Ifeoma told WABC.

“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,”
“I got into Harvard early-action, so I figured I’ll just go there, so then I got into all the others and I was like, ‘Wait, now I don’t know where I want to go,’” Ifeoma added.

“I was shaking, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight,’ and I clicked it and it said ‘Congratulations,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’ and then I was like, ‘What did I say?’” she recalled. “I think my love for poetry and writing just really stood out.”
“At this point, none of the schools I’ve applied to said they give merit scholarships, so I’m praying that they give me some more financial aid or some money. Shout out to all of those schools, please give me something,” Ifeoma said with a laugh.

Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University makes up the Ivy League.