Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  He whakataunga tino uaua tā Harold Ekeh. Kua tatari te 18-tau-tau o Long Islander mo nga wiki mai i te tuku i ana tono mo te whare wānanga. Engari kaore ia i whakaaro ki tenei. Kua whakaaetia a Harold e ia kura - tae atu ki ngā kura katoa e waru o te Ivy League. I puta mai i te tau i muri mai i te kitenga o tētahi atu ākonga kura tuarua mai i Long Island, a Kwasi Enin, i te rongo kotahi. I whiriwhiria e ia a Yale. PANUI PANUI PANUI PANUI PANUI PANUI PANUI Ka tutaki tenei ki a Harold Ekeh, te kaumātua o Long Island kua whakaaetia ki ngā whare wānanga katoa o te Ivy League. He whakatutukitanga whakamiharo: E kii ana a Harold, 18, kaore ia i mohio ka whakaaetia ia e nga kura 13 katoa. Ko te whetu: I neke mai te kura tuarua mai i Nigeria ki Long Island 10 tau ki muri me ona maatua ko Roseline (whakaahua) me Paul Ekeh. E ai ki a ia ko te pakanga a ona mātua i whakaaweawe ia ia ki te whakamahi i nga whai wāhitanga katoa i whakawhiwhia ki a ia. 'He mea poauau. I noho taku whaea ki toku taha, ā, he reta, he reta, he reta. Kaore au i whakapono,' i kii a Harold ki DailyMail.com i a ia e korero ana i nga meneti e rima i tae mai ai nga imeera whakaaetanga mai i Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, NYU, MIT, Vanderbilt, me SUNY Stony Brook. Ko tana whakanui? 'I haere ahau ki Chipotle me oku hoa mo te hawhe steak hawhe heihei poaka poaka. He tino pai.' I whanau mai ia i Nigeria, ka neke a Harold me ona maatua ki te US i te waru o ona tau. I tēnei wā he ākonga A tonu ia, he tohu SAT e 2270, i Elmont Memorial High School i Long Island, New York, i reira i mahi ai ia hei kaiwhakahaere matua o tana niupepa ākonga me te kaiwhakahaere matua o te Model United Nations. E whakamārama ana ia, ko tōna angitu i ahu mai i te tuhinga tuku iho, i whakaahua ai ia i te pakanga a tōna whānau ki te urutau i muri i tana hekenga ki Amerika. Ko te manawanui o ōna mātua, ngā kaitohutohu o mua o Target, a Paora rāua ko Rōhina Ekeh, nāna i hoatu ki a ia te kaha ki te whakatutuki i te mea pai rawa atu. Tona kōrero: E ai ki a Harold i whakaahuahia e tana tuhinga toa te uaua o te urutau i muri i tana hekenga ki Amerika. I a ia e kōrero ana ki DailyMail.com, i whakaae a Harold kua whakatū ia i tētahi pae tiketike mō tōna...
Ko Harold Ekeh, 18, te kaiwhakahaere o tana pepa ākonga, me te Tumuaki o te UN Tauira. I whakanuihia te whakaaetanga ki ngā kura 13 me tētahi ipu burrito Chipotle. I neke mai i Nigeria ki Long Island i te waru o ona tau, i whiwhi ia i te 2270 i roto i ana SATs. E kii ana i tana angitu ki te manawanui me te whakaaro pai o ona matua. E anga ana ia ki Yale, tae noa ki te 1 o Mei hei whakatau. E whakaaro ana ki te noho hei taote roro hei kimi rongoā mō te mate o Alzheimer mō tōna kuia.