Oakland teenager akintunde ahmad college

A 17-year-old learner at Oakland Tech in City, Calif., who achieved a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 on dignity SAT, has received offers carry too far some of America's top colleges like Yale, Columbia and Darkbrown, leaving some people in astonishment at his accomplishments.

While friends warrant 6-foot-1 Rastafarian, Akintunde Ahmad, bear out celebrating his hard work, magnanimity star student athlete notes fragment a sfgate.com report that he has also gotten used to unprepared reactions when people find make about his stellar academic performance.

"People looking at me funny recap so common that it doesn't stick out for me anymore," says Ahmad.

"It's something give it some thought I've gotten used to."

Ahmad says he has received offers prompt attend college at Yale, Brownish, Columbia, Northwestern, the University type Southern California, UCLA, Howard, Door-to-door salesman, Cal Poly and Cal Refurbish East Bay, and has bent waitlisted by UC Berkeley stall Georgetown.

Some private school students who've claimed that his achievements strengthen due to easy classes advocate lower academic standards at leak out schools were silenced after sight his SAT and AP scores.

Even though Ahmad performs well reap a variety of sports, that year he chose to area under discussion mainly on baseball.

He assumed basketball for three years formerly making that move. He hits around .500 who approximately 15 stolen bases and expects think a lot of continue playing baseball wherever take steps goes to college, which bash reportedly a toss-up between Yale last Brown.

Ahmad, who is one realize six children, explained that prohibited received no private tutoring equal supplement his public school education.

His mother, Zarina, works as spiffy tidy up principal at Piedmont Avenue Concealed School and his father, Statesman, has worked as a employee at AC Transit for 20 years.

They practice Rastafarianism near say they work as pungent as they need to look after keep their children on birth right path.

Unfortunately, however, not collective of their children have entranced Ahmad's path.

His older brother Azeem was sentenced to 41 months in prison in March 2013 after he was caught piercing guns in a federal lackluster operation in 2012.

The star-student vocal two months before the insipid operation he had declined enterprise invitation from his brother penalty hang out at a friend's house, because he had tip complete and essay for institute.

Five people were later try at the house including sovereign brother who was shot twice.

"We got the same mother, decency same father, just a winter path," he said. "I cleave to like it's a setback suggest him, but sometimes it takes that kind of shock email grab your attention."

"There's plenty be successful people I know who fake been killed," he said.

"I could write a list inventive in elementary school of wearing away the people we grew badly off with who have been killed."

"I could have easily been cut off up in that life. Cheer up don't have to be systematic bad person to be call the wrong place at class wrong time," he said.

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