It takes a village to raise a child – and it takes a classroom to celebrate a fellow student being accepted into an Ivy League school.
In a video that has quickly gone viral, 16-year-old Ayrton Little can be seen nervously awaiting the results of his college application to Harvard.
The second that his acceptance is confirmed, he and his classmates explode with joy – and the happiness is contagious.
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Ayrton’s older brother Alex, who also just got accepted into Stanford University, both go to TM Landry College Prep in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. The siblings say that despite living 30 minutes away from the school, they have spent many long days at the school working towards this moment.
“Our desire is to do great things, but to also push each other to the point we have now reached,” Alex wrote on Facebook. “I’ve also been working hard in school all my life, just so I’d be able to make sure I could take care of my mother.”
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