A 17-year-old Nigerian boy has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools including Harvard and MIT

Harold Ekeh is a senior at Elmont High School, who made headlines for being accepted into all of the eight Ivy-League schools he applied to. The talented teen speaks Igbo and Spanish, has a GPA of 100.5 percent and applied to 13 schools in total. Ekeh intends to study Chemistry or Neurobiology at college, and says of his preferred choice: “I am leaning toward Yale. I competed at Yale for Model UN, and I like the passion people at Yale had.”

Ekeh came to the U.S as an eight-year-old with his parents, and wants to be a neurosurgeon. He was named a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent for research on how DHA acid can slow down Alzheimer’s (doctors diagnosed his grandmother when Ekeh was 11-years-old). The teenager also started a college mentoring program at his school (Elmont Memorial High School) in Long Island, New York to help more students get into Ivy League schools.

“I am very humbled by this. It’s not just for me, but for my school and community. We can accomplish great things here,”said Ekeh of his achievement.

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