"He likes options because he’s never had many."
-- Stephanie Szymczyk, a school counselor at Stanton College Preparatory School
It was early Friday afternoon, and Craig McFarland had a big decision to make in the next couple of days.
“Right now it’s a three-way tie,” he said, “between Yale, Harvard and Stanford.”
McFarland, 18, valedictorian of the senior class at Stanton College Preparatory School, has been accepted by all eight Ivy League schools.
Yale said yes first, and then so did the others: Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania.
He got accepted into other prestigious schools as well, and set one non-Ivy, Stanford University, on his top-three list.
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