Genius New York High Schooler Accepted To All 8 Ivy League Schools
From the headline alone, you can tell 17-year-old Kwasi Enin pretty much has to be the most intelligent kid his age in America, right? The high school senior from Long Island’s south shore applied to all eight Ivy League institutions, and in return, metaphorically hit a walk-off grand slam in extra innings to win game seven of the World Series. Enin received acceptance letters from each Ivy League school.
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale all granted admission to the soon-to-be William Floyd High School graduate. Harvard was the last school to accept Enin–he found out the Crimson wanted him late last week via email.
It’s almost unheard of for high school seniors to apply to all eight Ivy League schools–each university looks for vastly different characteristics in its applicants–let alone gain admission to more than two or three. What Enin pulled here is totally unprecedented, considering the most stringent of the Ivy League, Harvard, only accepted 5.9 percent of its applicants this year. Cornell had the highest acceptance rate of the eight at 14 percent.
Yet, this brilliant kid got into ALL OF THEM.
There’s pretty much no doubt in my mind that Enin, an incredibly gifted musician and an aspiring physician, will have the attention of every hot, sapiosexually charged coed on whatever fine Ivy campus he chooses.
So how much of a genius is he?
Well, Enin is ranked as no. 11 in his class of 647, which equates to somewhere in the top 2 percent. He scored 2250 out of 2400 on his SAT, putting him in the 99th percentile for his ethnicity. By the time he graduates high school, he’ll have credits from 11 AP courses, which will transfer into college credit. He also has prior experience working as a volunteer in Stony Brook University’s radiology department. To boot, Enin’s parents, both of whom work in the medical field, emigrated to the U.S. from Ghana about 20 years ago, so he also has the unique distinction (some may say “competitive advantage”) of being a first generation American.
You better believe a résumé like that garners some serious offers from the higher learning elite.
Reportedly, the Princeton Tigers have splashed the most cash at the all-star prospect so far, although Enin claims he’ll make his decision closer to May 1. In the meantime, his agent is still open to entertaining offers from Harvard and Columbia.
The bottom line scouting report on this breakout class of 2018 prospect?
Kwasi Enin is a driven high school senior, and regardless of where he goes (he got into Duke, too) it seems like he’s on the fast track to being one hell of a highly specialized–and equally wealthy–doctor.
For the record, I’d go Harvard for undergrad, then let the Penn and Yale medical schools fight over me three years later. Cardiothoracic surgery or bust!
[via NBC 11 Atlanta]
Image via William Floyd School District
I see a lot of things on Affirmative Action, but I find it hypocritical that white people are chastising or accusing people of other ethnicities for having “an advantage”. Really? I like to assume everyone here has taken a history class(except for the DeVryGuy). You can even look at data today. White people still have the advantage. That’s just way things are.
11 years ago at 1:52 pmThe problem I have with your comment is that it suggests that the college admissions process should be some equalizing social justice machine that corrects historical racism. It shouldn’t be that way. Ivy league colleges should be admitting the absolute best and brightest regardless of race. It isn’t their job to right the wrongs of the past. It’s their job to take the best minds in the world and make them even better.. and they can’t do that when they’re admitting less qualified students to fill a race quota that they’ll never admit exists.
Sure there is inequality in America, but at some point everyone is going to have to stop blaming racist white people in the 1960’s for all of their problems. Hell, the kids applying to college this year are two, maybe even three generations removed from the civil rights movement. Minorities today have the same access to public schooling as any white person does, experience the same treatment under the law, and widespread racism is basically gone, so I don’t buy the white people have a huge advantage argument.
11 years ago at 4:30 pmYour whole last statement is just simply not true.
11 years ago at 6:19 pmIf you honestly believe that widespread racism is basically gone, you must not watch the news very often. Even your “access to public schools” argument could be debunked by observing patterns between schools and their neighborhoods in regards to funding and quality teachers.
There’s a reason my mother used her 7am break to come back home and take me across town to another school, when there was a school in my neighborhood just three blocks away. I try not to fault people for not knowing some things because you have to live it to truly understand, or at least pay attention to the data.
I wouldn’t exactly call the handful of race driven issues that the media sensationalizes for good ratings “widespread racism.”
11 years ago at 4:29 pmRegardless of ethnicity, this is a dick move on his part. If he was ranked 11th in his class, I’d assume that the rest of the top 10% of his class are applying to the Ivy League schools, as well. Those colleges only allot certain amount of acceptances per area/school. There’s probably a bunch of students getting screwed, sitting on a wait-list till this guys basks in his own glory till the deadline date. TNM.
11 years ago at 2:21 pmIn a simple google search I found on CollegeBoard there are about 8,000 male students that made higher than a 2250 on their SAT. What do you wanna bet not all of them got into one Ivy League school much less all of them?
11 years ago at 2:27 pmStop with the hate. The kid worked his ass off and is reaping in the rewards. If you ask me this is the epitome of a RFM.
11 years ago at 2:30 pmA RFM would be getting into all the Ivy League schools, saying fuck you, and going to an SEC school.
11 years ago at 2:36 pmOn top of everything everyone else is already pointing out about the, um, *real* reason he was so successful with his apps … once you get accepted to Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, the rest really isn’t much of a story. Anyone who gets in to all three of the Big Three is almost certainly going to get in to any of the other Ivy League schools.
11 years ago at 2:45 pm2300 SAT, 3rd in my class, varsity captain of my soccer team and president of two clubs and I didn’t get into any of these schools and I applied. Did I mention in Black and my parents immigrated from Kenya? Let’s not act he’s the only black kid to ever apply to an Ivy League school. Anyone who has applied to Harvard knows it’s more than just the demographics. They do interviews and look for a specific type of person and this kid fit the bill so hats off to this man
11 years ago at 3:12 pm*specific type of minority
11 years ago at 8:41 pmI ranked 192 in my class of 202. Still got into college.
11 years ago at 3:23 pmHope West Virginia is treating you well. I also bet you will be the “frattest” gym teacher in the middle school you are going to work at.
11 years ago at 8:21 pmJeff Davis Middle. FaF
11 years ago at 8:27 pmGetting into all the Ivy League schools is a heck of an accomplishment. Nonetheless, a 2250 isn’t that crazy for Ivy schools. 2250 on the SAT ~ 34 ACT. The biggest point of his application was the fact that he is the first to attend college and he’s from Ghana. Affirmative action sucks.
11 years ago at 3:48 pmAffirmative Action at it’s finest, kid isn’t that brilliant
11 years ago at 4:12 pm