The last six months are an exciting time for seniors as acceptance letters begin rolling in. Seniors Miles George, Malik George, and Gebran Abdulhai were accepted into Ivy League schools.

Miles and Malik George were accepted to Harvard University, a school whose acceptance rate is 5.4%. “It was a beautiful feeling knowing that everything I have done academically has paid off. Of all the people in the entire world, I was accepted,” said Miles George. For a school would admits only 2,000 freshmen students, two of them happened to come from the same household.

Harvard, like most Ivy League schools, is need blind, meaning that financial aid covered 75% of the boys’ attendance. Their parents’ were said to be ecstatic but not surprised because they always knew that their kids have the ability to do great things in life.

The twins are not shy from being in the academic spotlight as they got into Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and John Hopkins as well. “These boys keep making Woodbridge High School proud,” said principal Mr. Lottmann. 

Despite their acceptance, they decided to choose MIT over Harvard as it offered more academically. Miles and Malik are going to be STEM majors in Biological Engineering, and MIT has a much better engineering department especially in biology. “MIT has always been a dream for me so I went where I truly wanted to go,” said Miles.

“Going to school with my brother allows me to bring a part of home with me on the journey,” said Malik.

Gebran Abdulhai also received his acceptance from the University of Pennsylvania. “It was a flood of relief; I was dreading the day decisions were released, so when I read through the letter I had to read it twice to make sure it was real,” said Gebran.

He was fortunate enough to be offered a good amount of scholarship grants but the original offer was not enough for him to commit fully. After an appeal and being successful, Gebran is committed to UPenn as a Biological Basis of Behavior major because he can imagine himself spending the next four years there.

“I want to thank all the students, teachers, faculty, and administrators at WHS for helping me get where I am. I wish everyone in the class of 2018 the best of luck after high school,” said Gebran.

Woodbridge High School is extremely proud of those who have committed to their dream schools and every acceptance, no matter if it is an Ivy League or not, shows that hard work pays off.