Out of 35,220 applicants, Naheem’s among the 6.5 percent who were offered a spot in Yale’s Class of 2024.
It costs almost $79,000 per year and he attends completely for free.
Naheem has been with TeenSHARP since 9th grade. In elementary school, he was always fighting and was labeled the typical “bad student.”
He said, “I always thought as a little kid I would end up in jail as a lot of men in my community had gone to jail. I thought there was really nothing I could do to change that fact.”
With TeenSHARP’s support, Naheem has spent 7 weeks in Jeonju, South Korea on a full scholarship from NSLI-Y.
He’s spent 6 weeks studying race and ethnicity on University of Michigan’s campus as a Telluride scholar.
And we’ve even supported him to deliver his first TEDx talk.
Now, he’s a junior in college.
We will continue to support Naheem and our other brilliant students so that they don’t just attend these elite institutions, they thrive there.
