Ahmad declined to attend and instead, chose to stay home to work on an essay.
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“There’s plenty of people I know who have been killed,” Ahmad told SFGate.com. “I could write a list starting in elementary school of all the people we grew up with who have been killed. I could have easily been caught up in that life. You don’t have to be a bad person to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Through it all, Ahmad’s hard work has served him well and his parents admire the humble attitude he continues to exemplify.
For now, Ahmad has narrowed down his choices to two schools and two fields of study. However, he remains undecided on whether he will attend Yale or Brown and whether he will pursue pre-med or pre-law.
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Oakland Teen Pushes Past Stereotypes To Ivy Leagues was originally published on blackdoctor.org
