A brilliant 18-year-old boy has been offered admission into 27 US Universities.
The young boy, Jonathan Walker, is from Panama City, Florida, United States, and he graduated high school with an impressive 4.85 GPA.
Jonathan Walker also won a combined scholarship to the tune of $4 million from top universities like Yale, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
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In an interview with Good Morning America, Jonathan Walker revealed his excitement at being offered admission to all the schools he applied to, which is a rare feat.
“It’s so crazy to think about that; I applied to all these colleges, and I got in. That’s such a rare thing to occur, but the fact that it did happen, I’m so excited about it,” he said.
The young scholar revealed that his curiosity heightened when his parent got him a chemistry set and that he found a way to channel his interest in science into Engineering.
Jonathan said, “I found a way to channel that curiosity into Science, and that soon blossomed into Engineering.
The Rutherford high school graduate intends to inspire other Black teenagers to pursue their dreams of becoming inventors.
He explained that he is bothered that not many of the top tech guys in the industry are black.
“One of the things that also bothers me … when you think of the top tech guys in the industry, there is not many Black people who you think of in that tech entrepreneur sphere. As a child, me looking up to them, I’m not looking up to people that look like me,” he said.
However, Jonathan Walker remains undecided on which Ivy League school he will attend after 27 different universities accepted him.
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Pretty Nigerian Lady Emerge Best Graduating Student, Sweeps 12 Awards At UI Convocation
Meanwhile, a pretty Nigerian lady won 12 awards at the convocation ceremony of her school.
The young lady named Ogunyemi Deborah studied Crop Protection and Environmental Biology at the University of Ibadan.
The scholar was named the best graduating student of her department and the faculty of Agriculture’s best graduating student. In addition, she won all the faculty awards and 3 out of the 4 departmental awards.
