He's all-Ivy — accepted to all 8 Ivy League colleges
In the next month, Kwasi Enin must make a tough decision: Which of the eight Ivy League universities should he attend this fall?
A first-generation American from Shirley, N.Y., the year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale.
School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight Monday. Yale confirmed that it was holding a spot for Enin.
The feat is extremely rare, say college counselors — few students even apply to all eight, because each seeks different qualities in their freshman class. Almost none are invited to attend them all. The Ivy League colleges are among the nation's most elite.
"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd High School, where Enin attends class. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she's never seen anything like this. "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."
For most of the eight schools, acceptance comes rarely, even among the USA's top students. At the top
Neal Pollard
How often does the college application process for a single student make the front page of a national paper like USA Today? It happened on Tuesday, April 1, The feature centered around the academic ambitions of a Shirley, New York, Senior, whose academic future would seem secure and assumably provided for. He made history when last week he opened an acceptance letter from Harvard University. That alone is impressive, but that letter made it complete. Every single one of the eight Ivy League colleges formally accepted Kwasi Enin as a student. It is amazing that Kwasi would apply to all of them, and almost unheard of to be &#;invited to attend them all&#; (Greg Toppo, 1 A, 4/1/14). His guidance counselor said, &#;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&#; (ibid.).
So maybe our congregation does not have any academic prodigies like Kwasi Enin. With all due and considerable respect, we have something even better. We have a large repository of talent and spirituality in our midst among our youth and teens. Their dreams are endless. They dare to do great things, ask fri
The odds of getting into any of the eight Ivy League schools in the country are against even the brightest students in the country.
Imagine getting a yes from all of them. That’s what happened to year-old Kwasi Enin of Shirley, N.Y.
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale have all asked Kwasi to be part of their class of
Long Island’s Newsday reports:
“For Kwasi, applying to a competitive college wasn’t exactly a gamble. He has an SAT score of 2, out of 2,, which places him in the 99th percentile for all students taking the exam. He has taken and scored high on many Advanced Placement exams. He is an athlete, a shot putter, in fact, and his baritone voice can belt out a tune when he’s not playing viola for the school orchestra.
“Still, he said, ‘I’ve never heard of someone getting all eight.’
“He has now surpassed the accomplishments of some of his uncles and cousins, who were accepted to several Ivies. ‘I always thought they were far better than me academically,’ Kwasi said.”
USA Today talked to Kwasi’s high school guidance counselor, who said her “heart skipped a beat” when Kwasi told her he was applying to all
It's wonderful -- and rare -- that the airwaves, Internet and twitter-sphere are abuzz with the story of a young person's academic success instead of, say, a celebrity's wardrobe malfunction: Kwasi Enin's Ivy League grand slam. How many kids get into all eight Ivies? It's a small sample pool, because few -- how many, we don't know -- apply to all eight.
The conventional wisdom is to apply to a few reaches, a few targets, and a few safeties. The CW is not to apply to eight reaches and to three or four of the others -- but the CW is not for everyone. Among families I worked with this past year, two students, both children of recent immigrants, took Kwasi's approach and applied to twenty or so schools each, most of them reaches. When I suggested a more targeted approach -- pick a few reaches you really want to go to -- the parents gave me identical answers: If my kid applies to all these top schools, she might get into one. According to news report, that was Kwasi's thinking too.
It's been fascinating -- and sometimes disturbing -- to see how Kwasi Enin's story has unfolded publicly. In our celebrity driven culture, he's smack in the middle of his first 15 minutes of fame.
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