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Ifeoma, 17, gets accepted by all 8 U.S. Ivy League schools

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Talk about an embarrassment of riches.

A teenager in New Jersey in the United States has to make a decision soon most high school seniors can only dream of – deciding on which Ivy League school to attend in the fall.

The problem, if you want to call it that, is that she was accepted into all of them. All eightof them.

Ifeoma White-Thorpe, 17, said she was shaking when she got the eighth acceptance letter.

“I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight and I clicked it and it said ‘Congratulations’ and I was like oh my goodness!” White-Thorpe told CNN affiliate WABC-TV.

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White-Thorpe, a senior and student government president at Morris Hills High School in Rockaway, has to choose between Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown.

She wants to study biology and pursue a career in global health. Since all of the Ivy League schools “have great research facilities,” she decided to apply to them all.

Students getting into all of the Ivies is a monumental feat, but it’s happened to a handful of teens over the past couple of years –  Kwasi Enin in 2014, Harold Ekeh in 2015 and Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna and Kelly Hyles last year.

So where will she go?

Her parents said the choice is totally up to her; White-Thorpe said she just doesn’t know yet.

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She can add another elite school to the mix as well – she also got into Stanford.

One person who isn’t surprised by Ifeoma’s admission news? Her mother.

“Pat White-Thorpe tells Yahoo: “She has always been a hardworking girl. Last month, she was one of the 2017 Coca-Cola Scholars and that is one of 86,000 students in the United States. They choose 150 students and she was one of them.

“As a little girl, she was a great writer. I remember when she was in kindergarten. She spoke on behalf of the kindergarten class and it blew our minds away.”

Ifeoma’s writing skills certainly seemed to stick with her throughout her schooling– in 2010, when she was in the fifth grade, she won her school’s D.A.R.E. Essay Contest at Lakeview Elementary, along with five other students.

Ifeoma has acknowledged that her proclivity for poetry and writing may have helped her get into certain schools.

“I think my love for poetry and writing just really stood out,” she tells ABC.

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