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Nigerian teen gets 19 scholarship offers worth $5m
    2021-05-07  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ONE Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the U.S. and Canada.

Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than US$5 million worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate degree according to admission documents and estimates of financial aid awards. “It still feels pretty unbelievable. I applied to so many schools because I didn’t even think any school would accept me,” Yinka-Banjo told CNN, relishing her academic prowess.

Born to Nigerian parents, Chika Yinka-Banjo, a senior lecturer at the University of Lagos, and Adeyinka Banjo, a private sector procurement and supply chain executive, Victory was given potential full scholarships from the Ivy League schools, Yale College, Princeton University, Harvard College, and Brown University. Other U.S. scholarship offers included those from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia. In Canada, Victory was offered the Lester B. Pearson scholarship from the University of Toronto and the Karen McKellin International Leader of Tomorrow (KMILOT) scholarship from the University of British Columbia. “Their admissions processes are extremely selective,” Yinka-Banjo added. “They only accept the best of the best. So, you can imagine how, on a daily basis, I have to remind myself that I actually got into these schools. It is surreal!” Yinka-Banjo told CNN her remarkable achievements are borne out of hard work. “They have made me truly feel proud about the hard work I have put into several areas of my life over the years. I am slowly beginning to realize that I deserve them,” she said. The teenager remarked that her multiple scholarship offers “have made me stand taller, smile wider, and pat myself on the back more often.” Yinka-Banjo said she hopes to study Computational Biology. However, she is still weighing up her options on which school to choose, having been wooed by many prestigious institutions. (SD-Agencies)

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