A Nigerian teenager Saheela Ibraheem has been accepted into Harvard University at the tender age of fifteen. Saheela who was accepted into 13 institutions including Princeton, Columbia and Harvard settled for Harvard after falling in love with the University's campus. The teenager spoke with CBS 2's Cindy Hsu ''if you are passionate about what you do and i am passionate about most of these things especially with math and science, it will work out very well''
Her mother Shakeerat Ibrahim, said ''Saheela has been way ahead of the academic game since kindergarten, never cutting corners and trying to do everything on her own''. She plans to become a research scientist and study the human brain.
The teenager speaks four languages - English, Spanish, Latin and Arabic.
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