*Quadruplet brothers in Ohio have all been accepted at some of the nation’s top universities, including both Yale and Harvard, msn.com reports.
Lakota East High School principal Suzanna Davis tells the Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News that the Wade Brothers, who are seniors, epitomize academic focus and are ‘‘great young men.”
Aaron, Nick, Nigel and Zachary haven’t made their decisions, though Aaron likes Stanford University and his three brothers are leaning toward Yale. Financial aid offers likely will play an important role in their final decision.
‘‘It’s really something we couldn’t have done on our own without all the support we have had through our lives,’’ Nick said. ‘‘It has been awesome.’’
‘‘We feel like getting into these schools show who the people around us are,’’ Nigel said.
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Zachary added that they have always received encouragement from their parents who often told them that ‘‘the sky’s the limit.”
‘‘We were never told that we couldn’t get somewhere,’’ Zachary said.
The quadruplets learned on the same say day fate of their educational future.
“We’re still in shock, honestly,” Aaron said. “I don’t think it has sunk in yet.”
“I just felt blessed at that moment,” Nigel said. “It was an unreal feeling, I guess.”
“Honestly, to have one child from a family be accepted to a school like this is amazing,” Zach said. “But for all four to be accepted — I just don’t, I don’t know how it happened.”
Besides Harvard and Yale, the Wade brothers have plenty of options: Nick got into Duke, Georgetown and Stanford. Aaron is in at Stanford, too. Nigel made the cut with Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt, and Zach with Cornell.
“The outcome has shocked us,” Aaron Wade said. “We didn’t go into this thinking, ‘Oh, we’re going to apply to all these schools and get into all of them.’ It wasn’t so much about the prestige or so much about the name as it was — it was important that we each find a school where we think that we’ll thrive, and where we think that we’ll contribute.”
