15 Year Old Girl Accepted to Harvard

May 6th, 2011 - By madamenoire

We all know some smart kids. Maybe even some smart, athletic kids. But it’s safe to assume that not many of us know 15 year olds who’ve not only been accepted to several colleges across the nation, but will be attending Harvard University.

Now you do know of someone with those impressive credentials? This is the story of Saheela Ibraheem, a Piscataway, New Jersey resident and  the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. In an interview with the Star Ledger, the teen noted that she was applied to 14 colleges and was accepted to 13 (including six Ivy League schools). In case you were wondering, Yale was the school that rejected her. Saheela’s parents think it was because of her age.

The soon-to-be 16 year old skipped sixth-grade and 9th grade.  But get this, babygirl is not just some bookworm. She is a three-sport athlete (swimming, softball and soccer).  Saheela’s grades are phenomenal, she scored a perfect score on the math section of the SAT and she’s all types of cute too.

Her parents are doing something right!  We wish Saheela the best. Her story says something about expectations and resources, but also about personality and maturity. Experiencing college at 15/16 years old is very different than being 18 or 19 and something most kids her age probably could not do successfully on a social level regardless of grades. How young is too young to start college?

 

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  • Muslim

    Mashallah what a great Muslim girl. Makes me proud to be Muslim.

  • The Ghetto Saint

    But she is MUSLIM first and what ever ethnic second!!!!!! Peep Game:Muslim Women Gain Higher Profile in U.S.
    12/30/2010
    By: Brian Knowlton
    New York Times* –
    “Yet in their quest to break stereotypes, America's Muslim women have advantages. They are better educated than counterparts in Western Europe, and also than the average American, according to a Gallup survey in March 2009. In contrast to their sisters in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia, they are just as likely as their men folk to attend religious services, which equates to greater influence. And Gallup found that Muslim American women, often entrepreneurial, come closer than women of any other faith to earning what their men folk do.”

  • http://twitter.com/iAmLamz @iAmLamz

    As a young Black, Nigerian woman, I am utterly disappointed and embarrassed with what this young woman's achievements have become associated with, the perpetuation of the division between Black people. How tragic is that? Given the history of Black people in the diaspora especially America, knowledgeable people know that their growth as a people was clearly stifled in a way that Africans on the continent avoided. Africans have been able to cultivate a culture which yes values education because we lacked certain societal oppression that Black people in America faced profoundly and to be make a mockery of that is sad. So I apologize on behalf of Nigerian girl because clearly she is very ignorant. She may be academically educated but she lacks much knowledge as with many Africans.

  • AnotherGuest

    I wish they had mentioned that she had a perfect 800 score on the math section of the SAT. Way to go, kid.

    • AnotherGuest

      Oh wait. They did mention it. …Scrolled through story on phone and didn't see. I see it now. Yeah!

  • GK1

    i was also 15 when admitted to US college and finished at 18.. its all about upbringing and focus on education

  • Kassy

    Nigerian Girl, you have every right to be proud of your heritage and where you come from. You do not, however, have the right to be hateful and racist. And that's exactly how you sound. No better than an ignorant old white man using the N word. Get out of here with that nasty mess and try to get rid of some of that hate in your heart before it kills your soul.

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