Cedar Hill ISD Longhorn Insider April 2018 | Page 12

COLLEGIATE STUDENT ACCEPTED
TO SEVEN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS
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n March 28, Colby King’s childhood dream became a reality. The date marks Ivy
League Decision Day, when the universities post the names of their incoming
freshman class.
“I heard of MIT and Yale in the second grade,” the Cedar Hill Collegiate High School senior
says. “I’m the first in my family to be accepted to an Ivy League school.”
Actually, not one, but seven of the Elite 8 offered admittance: Brown, Columbia, Cornell,
Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. Several other high-profile
schools, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Southern California
and Howard, did so as well.
Colby’s mother enrolled him in Cedar Hill Collegiate High School in the ninth grade. “I
wanted him to be someplace where he could get the academic challenge he needed,”
LaChica King says.
Collegiate students earn their associate’s degree and high school diploma simultaneously
and pay no additional fees for college classes. In May, Colby and most of his classmates will
graduate with an associate’s degree from Cedar Valley College and a high school diploma.
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