Florida teen gets into every Ivy League college

A Florida teenager, who’s a first-generation Nigerian-American, has fairly the number of Ivy League faculties to select from — each one in all them.

Ashley Adirika, a debate champ who hopes to assist alleviate earnings inequality, received into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.

“The tears simply began to come back out. Like they began to circulation out,” she instructed ABC Information about her response to discovering out.

“My siblings and I have been simply actually excited, like screaming, leaping round. It was loopy.”

The budding scholar, who went to highschool at Miami Seashore Senior Excessive College, was additionally accepted to Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Emory.

“I simply determined to shoot my shot in any respect of them and see if it could land — And I had no concept that I might get accepted into all of them,” the 17-year-old pupil instructed CNN.

“I bear in mind crying lots and simply being extraordinarily shocked.”

Ashley ended up selecting Harvard, which solely accepted a record-low of three.19% of functions for the category of 2026.

“Earlier than the faculty software course of, Yale was really my best choice. However once I did additional analysis for what I wish to do particularly, which is explorations in coverage and social coverage and issues of that nature, Harvard simply had a greater program,” Ashley stated, including she desires to review how insurance policies can ameliorate earnings disparities.

She’ll begin her Ivy League training within the fall and plans to go to regulation faculty after acquiring her undergraduate diploma.

“I’m actually captivated with coverage and utilizing coverage to empower communities. And so within the brief time period, for me, that appears like changing into a lawyer,” she stated.

“However in the long run, I wish to use that as a platform to do work in coverage.”

Adirika was recruited to her faculty’s debate workforce when she was in eighth grade.

“Everyone knew Ashley due to how sensible she was. She had take a look at scores by the roof,” stated Bess Rodriguez, a seventh grade English trainer who recruited her.

“After we went to debates, the opposite children, after they noticed her come within the room, they’d say, ‘Oh no, we’ve to debate Ashley.’ , she simply received a repute like that.”

She additionally began an area group, Our Story Our Price, that gives mentorship to younger ladies of shade.

Unsurprisingly, Ashley was pupil council president and spoke at her highschool commencement ceremony too.