- Ifeoma White-Thorpe, a Nigerian-born teenager, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools - She was accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Stanford - She now has a tough decision to make which one she will actually attend when she graduates in June A Nigerian-born teenager schooling in New Jersey, Ifeoma White-Thorpe, is drawing positive attention after being accepted into eight Ivy League schools in the United States. Ifeoma White-Thorpe has been accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Stanford The 17-year-old girl who is a senior at New Jersey’s Morris Hills High School was accepted by Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Brown and Dartmouth. READ ALSO: 17-year-old Polytechnic student leads the construction of a locally-made drone She also got accepted by another elite school, Stanford, and now has to make a decision which to attend. Now that she has been accepted to so many schools, the hard part will be deciding which one she will actually attend "We're leaving it up to her," said Andre and Patricia White-Thorpe, Ifeoma's father and mother as the teenager has said she just doesn't know yet. According to her, she was shaking when she got the eighth acceptance letter. "I was like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, like this might be eight out of eight and I clicked it and it said 'Congratulations' and I was like oh my goodness!" White-Thorpe told CNN affiliate WABC-TV.