17 YEARS OLD... 1ST GENERATION AFRICAN (AMERICAN)... GROWING UP IN NEW YORK... (ACCEPTED TO ALL 8 IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES IN AMERICA)... ((( PRICELESS !!!))) WE AT UNITED IN PEACE, INC. WOULD LIKE TO RISE AND SALUTE OUR YOUNG PRINCE KWASI ENIN FROM THE CITY OF SHIRLEY IN OUR GREAT STATE OF NEW YORK FOR HIS EXTRAORDINARY... EDUCATIONAL (GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT) THIS IS TRULY AN INSPIRATION FOR ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OUR CHILDREN ARE GIVEN THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT AND THE RIGHT COACHING AND GUIDANCE IN THEIR FORMATIVE YEARS!!! 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 17-year-old violist and aspiring physician applied to all eight, from Brown to Yale. The responses began rolling in over the past few months, and by late last week when he opened an e-mail from Harvard, he found hed been accepted to every one. School district officials provided scanned copies of acceptance letters from all eight on 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 nations 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, shes never seen anything like this. Its 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 USAs top students. At the top end, Cornell University admitted only 14% of applicants. Harvard accepted just 5.9%. But Enin has a lot of things in his favor, says college admissions expert Katherine Cohen, CEO and founder of IvyWise, a New York-based consulting firm. For one thing, hes a young man. Colleges are looking for great boys, Cohen says. Application pools these days skew heavily toward girls: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that females comprised 57% of college students in degree-granting institutions last year. Colleges — especially elite ones — are struggling to keep male/female ratios even, so admitting academically gifted young men like Enin gives them an advantage. He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at William Floyd, a large public school on Long Islands south shore. That puts him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of 2,400 points, puts him in the 99th percentile for African-American students. He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by the time he graduates this spring. Hes a musician who sings in the schools a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook University Hospitals radiology department. Enin plans to study medicine, as did both of his parents. They emigrated to New York from Ghana in the 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby. Both are nurses. Being a first-generation American from Ghana also helps him stand out, Cohen says. Hes not a typical AfricanAmericanRoulette Elvie Rogersk id. Enin says he got the idea to apply to all eight in 10th or 11th grade, discovering that each has their own sense of school spirit and other qualities he liked. He also applied to three State University of New York campuses and Duke — and yes, they have all accepted him. In a phone interview, Enin said Princeton so far has offered the most generous aid package. But he has yet to get offers from Columbia, Cornell or Harvard. Either way, hell need to accept a place in the class of 2018 somewhere by May 1. He wants to pursue both music and medicine. Cohen says hes sitting in a very good place right now — I think he can negotiate the very best financial aid package he can get at his top-choice school. Almost any of them would do anything for this type of candidate, Cohen says. She advises that Enin call or write each of the eight and let them know that hes got a slot in each others freshman class. Theyll compete to get him to show up in the fall. Once he decides, she says, he should write letters to the seven runners-up saying hes honored to have been admitted. After all, hes got to keep his options open for graduate school. WE WISH OUR LITTLE BROTHER WELL AND MAY GOD BLESS HIM AND ALL OF OUR CHILDREN WHO ARE STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE IN LIFE AND ARE RISING TO THE OCCASION OF SUCCESSFUL AND PROFESSIONAL GREATNESS AGAINST ALL ODDS!!! NOBLE-AMEER ALI, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & ACTING CHAIRMAN UNITED IN PEACE, INC.
Posted on: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:02:29 +0000
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