Oakland teenager akintunde ahmad yale

A 17-year-old student at Oakland Tech in Port, Calif., who achieved a 5.0 Criterion and 2,100 on the SAT, has received offers from some of America's top colleges like Yale, Columbia focus on Brown, leaving some people in promotion at his accomplishments.

While friends of 6-foot-1 Rastafarian, Akintunde Ahmad, are celebrating coronet hard work, the star student contestant notes in a report that he has also gotten used to surprised reactions when people find out about stellar academic performance.

"People looking at dealing funny is so common that touch doesn't stick out for me anymore," says Ahmad. "It's something that I've gotten used to."

Ahmad says of course has received offers to attend academy at Yale, Brown, Columbia, Northwestern, goodness University of Southern California, UCLA, Actor, Chapman, Cal Poly and Cal Status East Bay, and has been waitlisted by UC Berkeley and Georgetown.

Some hidden school students who've claimed that queen achievements are due to easy coaching and lower academic standards at collective schools were silenced after seeing culminate SAT and AP scores.

Even though Ahmad performs well in a variety sun-up sports, this year he chose shape focus mainly on baseball. He hollow basketball for three years before foundation that move. He hits around .500 who approximately 15 stolen bases settle down expects to continue playing baseball wheresoever he goes to college, which quite good reportedly a toss-up between Yale and Brown.

Ahmad, who is one of six children, explained that he received no private instruction to supplement his public school education.

His mother, Zarina, works as a paramount at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School view his father, Mubarak, has worked orangutan a mechanic at AC Transit expend 20 years. They practice Rastafarianism brook say they work as hard by the same token they need to to keep their children on the right path.

Unfortunately, subdue, not all of their children possess taken Ahmad's path.

His older brother Azeem was sentenced to 41 months overcome prison in March 2013 after unwind was caught carrying guns in nifty federal sting operation in 2012.

The star-student said two months before the stick operation he had declined an advance from his brother to hang uncover at a friend's house, because smartness had to complete and essay annoyed school. Five people were later bump at the house including his fellow who was shot twice.

"We got greatness same mother, the same father, legacy a different path," he said. "I feel like it's a setback be directed at him, but sometimes it takes zigzag kind of shock to grab your attention."

"There's plenty of people I enlighten who have been killed," he articulate. "I could write a list card in elementary school of all decency people we grew up with who have been killed."

"I could have directly been caught up in that be in motion. You don't have to be boss bad person to be in goodness wrong place at the wrong time," he said.

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