That’s because Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna – who is Elmont Memorial Junior – Senior High School valedictorian and Intel Science Finalist – has been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools, reported News 12 Long Island.
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Augusta has until May 1 to decide which of the eight Ivy League schools she will attend. This year, Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, Elmont’s valedictorian, will face the same decision.
She has to choose between the eight Ivy League Schools plus Rensaleer, NYU, MIT and Johns Hopkins.
Uwamanzu-Nna was also accepted to the four additional schools to which she applied.
Uwamanzu-Nna said she hopes to be a role model for her two younger siblings as well as for other girls in her community.
Often that has more to do with whether they and their families can afford the cost of attendance than their ability to gain admittance to the prestigious schools, said Kevin Dougherty, Elmont Memorial’s principal. “So that has been critical to her success”. Her 101.64 weighted GPA was earned through hard work.
A Long Island, N.Y., teen has a unique problem: Which Ivy League school should she attend next year?
“I had to jury-rig this weird thing and use bench weights from my school’s weight room to measure the strength of samples”, she said. “But I guess what allowed me to be successful, ultimately, in those classes, at the end, is my persistence and my tenacity”.
Uwamanzu-Nna said that she wanted to learn about fluid mechanics by way of measuring the strength of samples, but her school did not have the proper high-tech apparatus for such work.
Uwamanzu-Nna has not yet decided as to which school she will attend in the near future, but has been recognized for her success by accepting an invitation to visit the White House Science Fair.
The daughter of Nigerian immigrants hit the Ivy jackpot, accepted to Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.
Fernando Rojas of Fullerton, California; Victor Agbafe, a student at Cape Fear Academy in Wilmington, North Carolina; and Ronald Nelson of Germantown, Tennessee, were among those accepted at all eight Ivy League schools in 2015.
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A NY high school student is making headlines for a big accomplishment.
