Each Of These Quadruplets Got Accepted Into Harvard And Yale

Quadruplets Zachary, Aaron, Nigel and Nick Wade have more in common than DNA: theyre all friggin brilliant.All four of them have been accepted into Harvard and Yale,among other prestigious colleges including Duke, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Cornell.The brothers run track at Lakota East Senior High School in Liberty Township, Ohio, and discovered theyd all been accepted at Harvard and Yale while at practice.The quadruplets are part of2,272 students admitted into Yale this year ' for what will be the schools largest freshman class in history ' out of 32,900 applicants. Harvard only accepted 5.2 percentof its applicants this year.The Wade brothers told The Washington Post that they werent planning on the quadruple admissions.The outcome has shocked us, said Aaron, who was also accepted into Brown and University of Pennsylvania. We didnt go into this thinking, Oh, were going to apply to all these schools and get into all of them. It wasnt so much about the prestige or so much about the name as it wasit was important that we each find a school where we think that well thrive and where we think that well contribute.Their decision on which school to attend will be heavily influenced by the financial aid packages they receive.The news comes just days after New Jersey high school senior Ifeoma White-Thorpe made headlines for being accepted into all eight of the nations Ivy League schools. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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