NORRISTOWN, PA — One of Norristown's finest and brightest young minds is already turning heads in the world of elite academia.
Norristown Area High School senior Ikram Ibidakpo recently achieved something that is almost unheard of: he was accepted to nearly every single Ivy League university.
Princeton, Penn, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown all said yes to Norristown native. That's seven of the eight schools in the conference.
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The school district recently shouted him out in a social media post.
"Being accepted to one is amazing, but seven?" they wrote. "So, where will he go? Show him some love for all of his hard work and accomplishments."
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Obviously a star student, Ikram is also treasurer of the National Honor Society.
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