A 17-year-old Nigerian-American girl, Ashley Adirika has won a $4 million scholarship to study at the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.<\/p>\n
Adirika\u2019s outstanding academic performances earned her the privilege to apply to the Ivy League universities in the US.<\/p>\n
Graduated from the Miami Beach Senior High School, Florida, US, Ashley Adirika has always dreamt of going to study at an Ivy League University<\/p>\n
When she opened her computer to check all her applications on Ivy Day, she was amazed to find out that all the Ivy League universities accepted and offered a scholarship, according to Scholarship Region news.<\/p>\n
The schools included Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth University, Harvard University, Penn University, Princeton University, and Yale University.<\/p>\n
Revealing her wild excitement, Adirika also said she received acceptance letters from Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Emory University.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. And I had no idea I would get accepted into all of them. On Ivy Day, I remember crying a lot and just being extremely surprised,\u201d Ashely told CNN.<\/p>\n
According to reports, the likelihood of being admitted to one of the elite universities ranges between three and eight percent.<\/p>\n
Since 2018, the US most exclusive schools have accepted less than 12% of their applicants. In 2022, Yale took 4.5%, Columbia welcomed 3.7%, and Harvard greeted just 3.2% of its future pupils, the smallest number ever in the university\u2019s history, according to CNN.<\/p>\n
Along with her streak of stellar grades, Adirika is known as a force when it comes to speech and debate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m someone who loves to learn new things, and so debate gave me that opportunity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut more than anything, it just gave me the platform to talk about things that I believed in and talk about things that were important to me. And so that is something that I am just forever indebted to Carol City for introducing me to that platform.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starting in middle school, her skills were exemplary of what the future held in store for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody knew Ashley because of how smart she was,\u201d Carol City Middle School teacher Bess Rodriguez shared.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had test scores through the roof; she\u2019s involved in all different activities. So I recruited her, and she had never debated before,\u201d Rodriguez added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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