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The original letter that got Kwasi Enin into eight Ivy League colleges

A US teen made headlines by getting accepted at all eight of the world’s toughest and most ruthless universities. Read the charming letter that got him there.

Colleges Asked to Prove Post-Grad Career Success

WHAT does it take to get into all eight Ivy League colleges? A 2,250 SAT score, straight-A grades — and this essay.

Kwasi Enin, a 17-year-old Long Island high-schooler, says a love of music sparked his “intellectual curiosity” in the admissions essay, obtained by The Post, that seemingly no college could resist.

Is this teen the ultimate high achiever?

“I directly developed my capacity to think creatively around problems due to the infinite possibilities in music,” writes Enin, who has played viola for nine years.

In an earlier interview, Enin credited his “helicopter parents” for encouraging him to push himself.

The senior at William Floyd High School applied to a total of 12 colleges because he feared he wouldn’t get into a single one.

He now must choose from the eight Ivies — Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale — which boast acceptance rates of 14 per cent to 5.9 per cent.

He also was accepted into four non-Ivy schools: Duke, Stony Brook University, SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton University.

Read the full letter below.

Kwasi Enin's college essay

This article originally appeared on the New York Post.

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