Teenager Wanted by 8 Ivy League Schools Announces His Decision

He has got a place in eight Ivy League schools. And then he called a press conference to announce his choice of Yale.

The 17-year-old Kwasi Enin declared it at William Floyd High School on Long Island, and said that he would be joining Yale, as its music program made him decide for it, according to lovemeso.

He became a media star when he announced last month that he had got accepted into every single Ivy League college backed by his parents, who are both nurses, and US emigres from Ghana in the 1980s.

Enin's scores are impressive: he got 2,250 out of 2,400 on his SAT.

He got accepted at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

It was a master stroke, because Harvard takes only 5.9 percent of applicants in its first round, while Cornell, which takes in more students than the other seven schools, enrolls just 14 percent of students.

Planning to study music and medicine, Enin said about Yale: "I met people who were just like me - diverse in both science and music - and they told me how manageable it is doing both." He said that he wants to sing in one of its capella groups and become part of its orchestras.

"I'm very satisfied with my offer," he said of Yale. "They're very generous on their aid."

While he was addressing the news conference in the school gym, he thanked his parents and educators who had helped to give him a boost. "Without their assistance, I would not be in this position," he said. "I would not have had the initial drive to strive for excellence."

His mother said her son is "proving himself to be on the right path." She and her husband have sought to instill "strong moral qualities" in Enin and his sister since they were young, she said.

She added: "We are so proud and so excited about all that he has achieved." His father, who had always been strict, had warned him his worst grade in school should be a 95," according to dailymail.