A Prudent College Path (public Honors Colleges)

According to Business Insider, 7 kids got into all 8 Ivies last year, plus Stanford & Duke:

Victor Agbafe:

  • From Wilmington, NC
  • Career choice: Neurosurgeon, eventually, Public Policy
  • Destination: Harvard
  • Son of Nigerian immigrant

Pooja Chandrashekar:

  • From Virginia
  • Career choice: Medicine
  • Destination: Harvard
  • Daughter of Indian immigrant engineers

Harold Ekeh

  • From NY
  • Career choice: Neurosurgeon
  • Destination: Yale
  • Son of Nigerian immigrants

Munira Khalif

  • From St. Paul, MN
  • Career choice: Government
  • Destination: Harvard
  • Daughter of Somali immigrants

Ronald Nelson

  • From Houston, TX
  • Career choice: Medicine
  • Destination: Alabama
  • African American

Alexander Roman

  • From St. Paul, MN
  • Career choice: Applied Physics or Environmental Engineering
  • Destination: MIT
  • Son of Mexican immigrant

Stefan Stoykov

  • From Indianapolis, IN
  • Career choice: Economics or History
  • Destination: Harvard
  • Bulgarian immigrant (first gen, didn’t speak English 10 years ago)

Last year:
Kwasi Enin

  • From Long Island, NY
  • Destination: Yale
  • Son of Ghanaian immigrant