18-Year-Old Homeless Boy Tops School, Gets Harvard Admission
After overcoming homelessness, Derrick Ngo, an extraordinary 18-year-old from Houston, Texas, emerged as the top student at Energy Institute High School and earned acceptance into Harvard University.
Derrick kept his attention on his studies even though he was living with his parents for the most of his senior year of high school, and he eventually graduated with the best grade point average in his class.
Derrick realized that knowledge was the path to escaping his difficult situation, so he turned his anger into his studies. Because of his mother’s gambling addiction, Derrick Ngo grew up in a challenging atmosphere, regularly spending time in casinos and struggling with a lack of parental direction due to his father’s absence and his mother’s many incarcerations.
by the age of fifteen, Derrick moved out on his own with little help from his mother financially, and by the age of seventeen, he was homeless. He was driven by a strong vision of accomplishment and discipline, determined to end the cycle of hardships in his family.
All four esteemed colleges to which Derrick applied—Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Texas at Austin—accepted him With the intention of making a good difference in people’s lives, he intends to enroll in Harvard and major in either philosophy or economics.
CREDIT: Allschoolabs, ALLSCHOOL
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