Harold Ekeh has good news for his parents. The 17-year-old Nigerian immigrant passed all the Ivy League Universities that include Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, and Cornell.
Harold Ekeh, a senior at Elmont Memorial High School in Long Island, New York had simple dream, to take examinations in 13 colleges and finally be enrolled in one university near his home in Elmont, Long Island, the NBC News reported.
However, luck for the 17-year-old boy did not fade and now he has all the opportunities in his hands.
"It's very, like, stunning - it's like getting hit with a brick, honestly," Harold Ekeh, senior at Elmont Memorial High School told NBC News. "When you see congratulations, you're like, wow your hard work has paid off, definitely."
Harold Ekeh just couldn't contain the happiness he feels upon seeing big congratulations from the universities. It's not simple universities, but he was accepted in all eight Ivy League of Universities, which are known for academic brilliance, social elitism and selectivity in admissions.
Harold Ekeh stated that his family left Nigeria ten years ago. His parents gave up comfortable life and tried their luck in the United States to give their children better opportunities. After passing all the high ranking universities, he said, "My parents' hard work and my hard work finally paid off."
He was only eight when they migrated to the United States. With little knowledge of English language, he struggled and strived harder to pay back all the hard work of his parents. Harold Ekeh parents Paul and Roselin began working in Target as clerks and that time he was only eight.
Ten years had passed and now Harold Ekeh was totally changed.
He was no longer the little boy who only knew few English words. Today the bright teenager was an outstanding student in Elmont Memorial High School where he has record of over 100 for GPA and scoring 2270 out of 2400 in SAT, according to PEOPLE.
Harold Ekeh is a talented and genius student. He was a model U.N. leader, a youth choir director, a drummer, and a leader at a mentorship program in his school. He shared that his interest lies in science and that he wants to become a neurosurgeon so that he could treat his grandmother's Alzheimer's disease.
Aside from eight Ivy League schools, Harold Ekeh also passed in the Vanderbilt University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), New York University, Stony Brook University, and John Hopkins University.
"I'm leaning towards Columbia right now because I'd like to stay in New York City for I guess the rest of my career and work at Mt. Sinai," Harold Ekeh said. However, NewsMax reported that Harold Ekeh might enroll in Yale University which is located 120 kilometers northeast of New York.
