What does it take to nab a place in not one, but all eight of the U.S. Ivy League colleges? Perfect grades, it goes without saying. But the proof, so it seems, is in the admissions essay. Just ask Kwasi Enin.
Convinced that he wouldn't get accepted, Enin applied to a total of 12 colleges, and now the 17-year-old Long Island senior can cherry pick between Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale.
For nine years, Enin has played the viola, and freely throws around the term "my music career" in his
delightfully pompous essay.
He credits music for basically building his wonderful, joyous existence, to the friends he's made along his "journey":
"The bonds I have made throughout my school years endure through stress. These powerful bonds came to be because my friends and I endured against the adversity found in high level pieces of musical literature."
Pinch me. Did he really just liken "adversity" with playing some sheet music?
Harvard, you can have him.
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