Nik Bostrom, an 18-year-old Verona High School senior, was accepted to seven Ivy League schools and a total of 16 universities.
Bostrom got into: Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Harvard, NYU, Northeastern. Northwestern, Princeton, Stevens, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, UVA, Yale, and Rutgers. He did not apply to Dartmouth.
School district officials are not at all surprised.
"When they meet with him or speak with him, and his credentials in music and his passion for learning, that's what they want," said Charles Miller, director of curriculum for the Verona school district.
Bostrom loves to sing a Capella and plans to major in computer science and software engineering with the possibility of creating an app.
"I don't have any ideas for an app," he said. "But if I did, I would keep it to myself until it comes out."
There's so much more to know about the self-motivated young man.
Bostrom has a 4.44 GPA, but he says it was never about the grades so much as a passion to know and to challenge himself.
"(It's) not necessarily wanting to be the best, but my own best," he said. "So trying to master the material and learn it as best I could, not just focusing on getting the grades."
Several Verona High School seniors were accepted into Ivy League schools, but Bostrom is the only one who got into seven. No one in the district can remember if this has ever happened before.
While Bostrom prepares for a road trip during spring break to visit some of the schools and help him make a decision, family and friends are showing him the love.
"I'm stunned," Bostrom said. "My friends are all congratulating me, my teachers, even students and teachers I don't know because we don't have class together are coming to me saying congratulations."