Nigerian Teenager Ifeoma White-Thorpe Gets Accepted To All Eight Ivy League Schools

18 years old teenager with Nigerian background Ifeoma White-Thorpe has to make a decision soon most high school teenagers can only dream of – deciding on which Ivy League school to attend in the fall. The problem, if you want to call it that, is that she was accepted into all of them. All eight of them.Ifeoma White-Thorpe said she was shaking when she got the eighth acceptance letter. “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!” White-Thorpe told CNN affiliate WABC-TVWhite-Thorpe, a senior and student government president at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown.

She wants to study biology and pursue a career in global health. Since all of the Ivy League schools “have great research facilities,” she decided to apply to them all.  Photo Credit: Getty

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