MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. – Yale is the pick for the son of Ghanaian immigrants who made U.S. national headlines after being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools.
Seventeen-year-old Kwasi Enin says he plans to attend Yale University this fall.
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He made the announcement Wednesday at William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach, New York.
Enin was also accepted at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.
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The notoriety earned him a cameo on David Letterman’s Late Show. Saturday Night Live did a wisecrack about him on Weekend Update.
Enin says he wants to study medicine. His parents are both nurses and immigrated to the United States from Ghana in the 1980s.
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