Adrikia, 17, recalls the day all of her family members surrounded her as she opened up all eight acceptance letters from–Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale.

“I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. And I had no idea that I would get accepted into all of them,” Adrikia said. “On Ivy Day, I remember crying a lot and just being extremely surprised.”

The Miami Beach Senior High School graduate is a part of a unique group of Ivy League applicants that are accepted. In the last four years, less than 12% of applicants have been accepted into the Ivy League schools of their choice. In 2022, Yale has taken 4.5%, Columbia 3.7%, and Harvard 3.2%, which includes Adrikia.

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