Blue collar with blue blood.
A last year student of the New Jersey high school challenged the probabilities, and their own expectations, by accepting seven Ivy League schools.
Angel Ortiz, who attends Arts High School in Newark, was amazed when he recovered acceptance letters from Elite Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Brown universities, as well as the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.
“I am still processing it. When notifications arrived, I spent two hours walking through the kitchen in shock, while my mother sat there disbelief,” said Ortiz, 17, ABC7.
“I had the feeling that I could enter more than one ivy, but I never anticipated each one I requested,” said the brilliant teenager.
Ortiz, who wants to specialize in Political Science, has a reputation among his classmates as the smartest type in the Chamber, according to the teacher Sean Kenny.
“If I ask a question and every class of the class does not understand it, they simply point out,” Angel knows, “he told The Outlet.
“It is always first category, always in your game.”
The young man from Garden State surprisingly attributed part of his academic success to go out with friends, saying that they serve as “additional motivation” to complete all his school work.
But the part of the lion in Ortiz’s work ethics was imbued by his mother, who emigrated to the United States 23 years ago, and his father, owner of a pizzeria.
“I always tell you, the way I work hard for you, that is the way you worked. This is for your future, this is for you,” said Father Mariano Ortiz to ABC7.
“As the son of first -generation Latin immigrants, I know that the roads like the university are much more difficult to access for people like us,” said the young Ortiz.
“I hope that now, the duration of my university life, and in my future career, I can be the best representation of my community and my loved ones.”
Ortiz plans to tour the prestigious institutions of higher education before making his final decision, which must be taken on April 18, The Outlet reported.
The civic mentality student intends to follow a career in law after studying political science.
The annulled institutions that have opened their historical doors to the Newark neophyte have the most tacental acceptance rates of the nation: Harvard 3.6%; Yale 3.7%; Columbia 3.85%; Princeton 4.62%; Brown 5.16%; UPENN 5.38%; and Dartmouth 5.41%, according to IVY coach.
The only IVY Ortiz was not applied to the University of Cornell, has an acceptance rate of 9.73%, according to the data.