'We were really, really shocked': 28 colleges accept senior, including 7 Ivy League schools
A Dulaney High School senior in Timonium, Maryland, is racking up college acceptances, many from Ivy League schools.
Demetrius Profic applied to seven Ivy League schools and got into every one.
"I kind of went a little crazy with my college applications, so I did apply to 29 schools. It was a lot of essays, a lot of supplementals that I had to write but it turned out pretty well," Demetrius told sister station WBAL.
"Pretty well" is an understatement as the acceptance letters started rolling in. Demetrius opened all his letters with his family -- he got into 28 of the 29 to which he applied, including seven Ivy League schools. He also received enough scholarship money to attend college for free.
"We were really, really shocked. It was a really surreal moment. We all started crying on the phone. It was kind of crazy, but it was really, really shocking," Demetrius told WBAL.
But he said his success is not by accident, it's a result of hard work.
"I did work hard here at Dulaney. I took a lot of (Advanced Placement courses), a lot of extracurriculars," Demetrius said.
Extracurriculars include being the president of the mock trial team, RHO Kappa Honor Society and UNICEF. He's also co-president of Teens Against Trafficking. Despite his busy schedule, his grades never suffered. He's graduating with a 3.9 GPA.
His advice to other students: "I would definitely say don't limit yourself, definitely try as much as you can ... You definitely want to start early in high school so that you can kind of build your résumé and your application for the colleges, definitely."
Now, Demetrius has many options on the table for college. He's narrowed down his top four to Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Stanford. It's a lineup of schools to be proud of that proves that hard work pays off.
"Definitely, (I'm) just feeling a lot of gratitude and very grateful," Demetrius said.
Demetrius has to pick a school by May 1, so it's getting down to the wire. He said wherever he goes, he'd like to study political science and go on to become either a lawyer or a politician.