He’s taking his talents to New Haven.
The Long Island whiz kid who got accepted into all eight Ivy League colleges plans to attend Yale, he announced at a LeBron James-esque press conference on Wednesday.
Kwasi Enin, 17, of Shirley, chose the university because it has the best music program and offered the most financial aid, he said at a press conference at William Floyd High School.
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“I narrowed down my choice of schools quickly…I find Yale’s student body very friendly and energetic,” he said, explaining he toured the New Haven, Conn. campus earlier this month.
“The visit days last week was incredible. I met geniuses from all across the world. Everyone there was so friendly, and I believe that their deep appreciation and love for music, like I have, was very critical in me deciding to go there,” he said, according to CBS New York.
He’s bracing himself to share a classroom with some of the world’s brightest students, he said.
“There’s always that shock factor for most college kids — the world’s bigger than I thought it was. There are a lot more smart kids than I thought there were, compared to me,” he said.
“But I’m ready for that…I’m not intimidated by the school very much,” he added.
Enin, who is the son of immigrants from Ghana, learned he had been accepted into all eight Ivies — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale — in March.
He credited his strict “helicopter” parents for encouraging him to do his best.
While touring the University of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton earlier this month, he met students who had been accepted into nearly as many of the Ivy League colleges as himself, he said.
“I met a couple of sevens” he said, dubbing them the number they were accepted into.
He now wants to become a doctor and plans to major in biomedical engineering, he said.
The talented teen scored 2,250 out of 2,400 on the SAT, placing him in the 99th percentile.
His college application essay was about his passion for music.