Akintunde Ahmad, a senior at Oakland Tech in Oakland California, USA, has achieved a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 in the SAT. As a result of the achievements, he has his choice of attending Yale, Brown,
Columbia or a slew of other prestigious universities but the people he meets
don't believe him thanks to the clothes he wears and dreadlocks he sports so he
has to carry around proof of his 5.0 GPA and sky high SAT score because he
looks like a 'street dude.'
“People looking at me funny is so common that it doesn’t stick
out for me anymore, it’s something that I’ve gotten used to.” Says Ahmad
To combat those snap judgments, Ahmad keeps
photos of his impressive grades and 2100 SAT score on his phone and can flash
them at any disbeliever he wants.
The 17-year-old Oakland Tech student proudly attests to
his lifelong public education and wears the same baseball cap, gold chains,
loose clothes and dreadlocks as many of his classmates.
While the outstanding student's record speaks
for itself, some believe his appearance says a lot, too. And those folks have
been doubting or overlooking him for much of his already accomplished life.
Thankfully for the promising teen, others like his
Oakland school principal mother have always urged him not to give in to others'
doubts.
'Like, my whole life, people have been
telling me to stay on this path and everything will fall, the cards will fall
like you want them to, so,' Ahmad told KGO
Giving him even more reason to gloat, Ahmad is also an
accomplished baseball player and plays three musical instruments. But he
manages to stay modest.
His mom Zarina recalled asking her son about
his SAT score months back.
"'Oh I got it back...I have a 2100"'
she recalled him saying. 'I'm like, "Wow! When were you going to tell
me?"'
Ahmad has yet to make a decision about which
school he's going to choose.
He thinks it will be either Brown or Yale and
plans to study pre-law or pre-med.
Well done
Ahmad.
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