Saheela Ibraheem, a Nigerian genius, was admitted into Harvard University at the age of 15, where she is currently studying neuro-biology — a branch of science that studies the brain . This feat puts her among the youngest students ever to attend that school. But that’s not the most impressive part, Saheela was accepted at 12 other colleges, including MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, and the University of Chicago. In the end, Saheela chose Harvard, based on her seven-year-old brother’s advice.
Saheela’s Nigerian parents, totally supportive of the young scholar, sometimes taught her subjects the schools didn’t offer. In an interview with My Fox, New York, Saheela’s mother, Shakirat, attributes her daughter’s academic success to her interest in learning and knowing more. “When you teach her 1, 2, 3 but she want more,… When you teach her 1 through 5, she’d say how about this.” Her dad, Sarafa, a graduate of Nigeria’s own ivy school, University of Ibadan, is a financial analyst and vice president at a major Financial group in New York.
Saheela believes the key to success is knowing what you love to learn as early as possible, a knowledge she says she came to at age five. “If you are passionate about what you do, and I am passionate about many things, especially math and science, it will work out well.” The teen is also interested in languages, and knows Yoruba, Arabic, Spanish, and Latin, in addition to English.
On the lighter side, Saheela plays softball, soccer, and the trombone. She also sings in the school choir and serves as president of the school’s investment club. She has a SAT score of 2,340 SAT (a perfect 800 on the math section, a 790 in writing and a 750 in reading).
As for her own brain, Saheela claims she is nothing special. “I try my best in everything I do,” Saheela said. “Anyone who’s motivated can work wonders.”
“It is always joyful to hear that Africans are doing great things around the world regardless of how bad some international media tried to portray us.
Back in Fall, 2010,
Saheela applied to 14 schools that includes some of America’s Ivy
Leagues. All, but Yale, offered her admissions. This includes,
Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Brown,
Williams College, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard, which she settled on
after a convincing visit to the university’s campus.
In an interview with My Fox, New York, Saheela’s mother, Shakirat,
attributes her daughter’s academic success to her interest in learning
and knowing more.
“When you teach her 1, 2, 3 but she want more,… When you teach her 1
through 5, she’d say how about this.”
Her dad, Sarafa, a graduate of Nigeria’s own ivy school, University of
Ibadan, is a financial analyst and vice president at a major Financial
group in New York
Besides her academic excellence, Saheela actively plays soccer, softball
and the trombone.
“It is always joyful to hear that Nigerians are doing great things
around the world regardless of how bad some international media tried to
portray us. We Nigerians here in America are proud of Saheela and her
parents,” Bukky Adekanbi, a Nigerian residing in New York said.
“It all comes down to the support I’ve had at home, from my parents,
even my brothers being there every step of the way,” said Saheela who
plans to study neuroscience or neurobiology — scientific study of the
nervous system.
Read more at: http://naijalog.com/15-year-old-nigeriansaheela-ibraheem-admitted-into-harvard/
Read more at: http://naijalog.com/15-year-old-nigeriansaheela-ibraheem-admitted-into-harvard/
Back in Fall, 2010,
Saheela applied to 14 schools that includes some of America’s Ivy
Leagues. All, but Yale, offered her admissions. This includes,
Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Brown,
Williams College, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard, which she settled on
after a convincing visit to the university’s campus.
In an interview with My Fox, New York, Saheela’s mother, Shakirat,
attributes her daughter’s academic success to her interest in learning
and knowing more.
“When you teach her 1, 2, 3 but she want more,… When you teach her 1
through 5, she’d say how about this.”
Her dad, Sarafa, a graduate of Nigeria’s own ivy school, University of
Ibadan, is a financial analyst and vice president at a major Financial
group in New York
Besides her academic excellence, Saheela actively plays soccer, softball
and the trombone.
“It is always joyful to hear that Nigerians are doing great things
around the world regardless of how bad some international media tried to
portray us. We Nigerians here in America are proud of Saheela and her
parents,” Bukky Adekanbi, a Nigerian residing in New York said.
“It all comes down to the support I’ve had at home, from my parents,
even my brothers being there every step of the way,” said Saheela who
plans to study neuroscience or neurobiology — scientific study of the
nervous system.
Read more at: http://naijalog.com/15-year-old-nigeriansaheela-ibraheem-admitted-into-harvard/
Read more at: http://naijalog.com/15-year-old-nigeriansaheela-ibraheem-admitted-into-harvard/
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