South Florida teen Ashley Adirika always dreamed of attending an Ivy League school, so she decided to apply to all eight – and became one of the very few to get accepted by them all. She'll be attending Harvard this fall on a full scholarship!
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One by one, acceptance letters began popping up on the screen, until she had them from all eight Ivy League schools: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale. "I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. And I had no idea that I would get accepted into all of them," she said. "On Ivy Day, I remember crying a lot and just being extremely surprised."
The chances of being accepted to just one Ivy League school is less than 10%. According to CNN, Yale's acceptance rate this year was 4.5%, and Columbia's was 3.7%.Dad, son, and daughter graduate together, earn master's degrees in educationBut she didn't just receive acceptance letters – she was awarded scholarships to them all as well.BREAKING NEWS
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