2013-14申请季美国大学录取结果基本上尘埃落定,来自美国纽约州长岛的高中学生KwasiEnin创造了一个奇迹:他成为第一个被八所常青藤盟校全部录取的高中学生。
根据USATODAY(今日美国)报道,他的背景如下:
He ranks No. 11 in a class of 647 at WilliamFloyd, a large public school on Long Island's south shore. Thatputs him in the top 2% of his class. His SAT score, at 2,250 out of2,400 points, puts him in the 99th percentile for African-Americanstudents.
He will also have taken 11 Advanced Placement courses by thetime he graduates this spring. He's a musician who sings in theschool's a capella group and volunteers at Stony Brook UniversityHospital's radiology department. Enin plans to study medicine, asdid both of his parents. They immigrated to New York from Ghana inthe 1980s and studied at public colleges nearby. Both arenurses.
而下面是他在Common Application网站提交的申请essay: