A brilliant 16-year-old boy named Ayrton Little achieved outstanding success after he was accepted into Harvard University at his young age.
Little, a Louisiana native graduated from T.M. Landry College Preparatory in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, Uniteed States. He was surrounded by classmates when he found out he had gotten early admission for Harvard University’s 2022 class.
He told NBC that the achievement is the fulfillment of his childhood dream. “Ever since I was little, it was Harvard. I didn’t know how I was going to go but I knew I was going to go,” he said.
Little’s reaction was captured on video and was posted on his brother’s twitter which has now been viewed more than 5.8 million times.
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He was one of the 964 students selected to join the Class of 2022 out of 6,630 students who applied for early admission. Little said he is excited to have earned the accomplishment.
“As you can see in that video. When I realized my dream was a reality, it kind of rocked my world,” Little said. “I told him his acceptance day, not mine, was the best day of my life,” Little’s brother, Alex said.
Alex also earned acceptance into Stanford University a few weeks before Little’s achievements.
Raised by a struggling single mother, the brothers overcame significant financial hardships to achieve success. Their home often faced challenges, such as leaky pipes and unpaid bills, during their formative years and academic pursuits.
Despite all of the challenges and adversity, the Little brothers said their mother made it a priority to provide for them and gave them the encouragement and support they needed to succeed.
They mentioned that their mother bounced through odd jobs, even selling baked goods to pay their tuition when she lost her job before securing another one as a culinary teacher at a vocational school.
“Our mom did a good job of not making it a center point of our lives. She tells us this all the time: No matter how tough things were, whatever bills weren’t getting paid, whatever lights might be cut off,” Alex said.
”I knew that they were always working and I knew that I’d come home to good grades and good report cards and kids who were striving in school,” he added.
Aryton said that he could have easily gotten involved with drugs and gangs and stopped caring about school. However, he believed that education was the key to propelling him forward.
“I could have easily turned to drugs and gangs and to not caring about school, but that wouldn’t have gotten me to where I am now. I knew, in the end of working hard and staying in school and just having a love for learning, I knew that it could bring me to Harvard or just bring me to a better place in life,” he said.
Aryton plans to study Applied mathematics with a minor in computer science at Harvard University. With his degree, he hopes to pursue a job on Wall Street that will allow him to make enough money to start a nonprofit to give back to kids in his hometown.
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