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NJ high school senior and valedictorian accepted to 7 Ivy League colleges: ‘Incredibly grateful’
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1:00Now PlayingFrom blue-collar to blue-blooded.
A New Jersey high school senior and class valedictorian defied the odds — and his own expectations — by getting accepted to seven Ivy League schools.
Angel Ortiz, who attends Arts High School in Newark, was flabbergasted when he received acceptance letters from elite universities Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Brown, as well as the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.
The 17-year-old, who scored an impressive 1480 on his SATs and 34 on the ACTs, said opening his admission letters one by one with his mother was a moment he’ll never forget.
“I never expected something like that to happen,” Ortiz told The Post, explaining that he received his acceptance letter from Princeton in December and the rest in March.
“It was always in my mind that I could have gotten into one Ivy League, but multiple? I knew it was a small chance of happening but I decided to apply anyway ’cause why not? And so opening up those applications and seeing that my work was worth it and was good enough to be considered by these elite institutions was just incredible.”
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