A Florida teen is heading to Harvard University but the scholar has also been accepted to every other Ivy League school. 17-year-old Ashley Adirika recently graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School has been all eight Ivy League colleges Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale. Adirika was also accepted to Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Emory University according to CNN.
She told CNN, “I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. And I had no idea that I would get accepted into all of them. On Ivy Day, I remember crying a lot and just being extremely surprised.”
Adirika decided to attend Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts said, “Before the college application process, Yale was actually my top choice. But when I did further research for what I want to do specifically, which is explorations in policy and social policy and things of that nature, Harvard just had a better program.”
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