It was a surreal moment for the 17-year-old to be accepted into all the Ivy League schools, whose mother emigrated to the US from Nigeria three decades ago.
Florida teen Ashley Adirika has always dreamed of attending an Ivy League school. So in late fall, she applied to not just one -- but all eight of them.
On Ivy Day, the fateful spring day when the prestigious schools all announce their first-year admission decisions, Ashley opened eight tabs on her computer -- one for each's applicants portal. One acceptance letter popped up. Then another. And another. Until she had them all: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.It was a surreal moment for the 17-year-old, whose mother emigrated to the US from Nigeria three decades ago.
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