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Wade brothers – 18-year-old quadruplets who have been accepted to 59 colleges between them, including Duke, Harvard and Stanford, will ALL attend Yale

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;">Four brothers Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade have all decided to study at Yale University <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;">The 18-year-old quadruplets from Liberty Township&comma; Ohio had offers from 59 schools in total <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;">Some of the colleges they turned down included&colon; Georgetown&comma; Vanderbilt&comma; Stanford&comma; Duke&comma; and Harvard <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;0a0101&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;The school treated us like family&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Nigel said&comma; explaining why they chose Yale after being offered &&num;8216&semi;extraordinary&&num;8217&semi; financial aid pack<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h1><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"author-section byline-plain">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-176095" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;aaron-nick-nigel-and-zachary-wade6&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade6&period;jpg" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"450" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Nigel&comma; Aaron&comma; Zachary and Nick show their Yale colors<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Quadruplet brothers who made headlines last month after being accepted into 59 of the best colleges in the country have made their choice&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade&comma; from Liberty Township&comma; Ohio&comma; are packing their bags and heading to Yale&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The 18-year-olds announced they were headed to the Ivy League during a short Skype interview with <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcnews&period;com&sol;feature&sol;college-game-plan&sol;ohio-quadruplets-accepted-ivies-will-attend-yale-together-n753146" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener noreferrer">NBC<&sol;a> on Monday morning&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Connecticut college helped sway the boys by offering them an &&num;8216&semi;extraordinary&&num;8217&semi; financial aid package&comma; but all four said their decision was not made because of money&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-176092" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;aaron-nick-nigel-and-zachary-wade1&period;png" alt&equals;"Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade1" width&equals;"804" height&equals;"517" &sol;><strong>Quadruplets Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade&comma; from Liberty Township&comma; Ohio are all attending Yale together this fall<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-176102" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;danbury-high-school-quadruplets-from-left-ray-martina-ken-and-carol-crouch-will-all-attend-yale-university-in-the-fall-photo-taken-wednesday-april-28-2010&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Danbury High School quadruplets&comma; from left&comma; Ray&comma; Martina&comma; Ken and Carol Crouch will all attend Yale University in the Fall&period; Photo taken Wednesday&comma; April 28&comma; 2010&period;jpg" width&equals;"920" height&equals;"680" &sol;>Quads Ray&comma; Martina&comma; Ken and Carol Crouch were the first set of quads to attend Yale University&comma; in 2010<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<p>The Wades aren&&num;8217&semi;t the first quadruplets to attend Yale&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;newstimes&period;com&sol;news&sol;article&sol;Danbury-s-Crouch-quads-off-to-Yale-465987&period;php">The Crouch quads<&sol;a> from Danbury&comma; Connecticut&comma; made headlines when they attended the Ivy League school in 2010&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Wade quads consulted them and asked how they managed to find their own individuality on the same campus&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Ray &lbrack;Crouch&rsqb; said they had to go out of their way to meet up&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Aaron&period; &&num;8220&semi;Everywhere they went&comma; they definitely found their own niches without the pressure of being quads&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The brothers announced they were attended Yale during a Skype interview on Monday by taking off their jackets to reveal they were wearing t-shirts from the university<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;The school treated us like family&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Nigel told the network&period;brothers<br &sol;>&NewLine;Aaron&comma; who was accepted to Stanford&comma; then added&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I absolutely enjoyed the people and the social environment and appreciated the strong arts and humanities at Yale&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;But there was a part of me that didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to like the school because it would make my decision easy&period; Alas&comma; that didn&&num;8217&semi;t happen&period; I loved it as well&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Their dad Darrin Wade&comma; said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Yale won&&num;8230&semi; they made the best offer&comma; and it was the benchmark for my sons&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also explained what analogy he used to help his sons make their decision&comma; in reference to other schools he considered lesser making more substantial financial aid offers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;You have a beautiful girl to go to the prom with and there is another girl who is kind of cute who made a pitch at the last minute&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added&colon; &&num;8216&semi;It was other pieces&comma; like the softer stuff&period; They wanted to make sure they felt comfortable&&num;8230&semi; the alumni reached out and made themselves available to us as a family&comma; I had people I didn&&num;8217&semi;t know calling and saying we want your sons there and they are going to be sure they are taken care of&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-176119" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;nick-zach-nigel-and-aaron-wade-as-boys7&period;png" alt&equals;"Nick&comma; Zach&comma; Nigel&comma; and Aaron Wade as boys7&period;png" width&equals;"710" height&equals;"473" &sol;>The Wade brothers as Kids <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-176090" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;aaron-nick-nigel-and-zachary-wade&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade" width&equals;"634" height&equals;"476" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;All grown and ready for the world&comma; the four Wade brothers announced they will all be going to Yale<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The statistical odds of all four brothers making it to Yale are incredible&period; More than 32&comma;000 people applied for Yale this year&comma; of which 2&comma;272 were accepted&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The decision comes after the boys said last month they were thrilled and shocked to receive offer letters from so many of the country&&num;8217&semi;s most prestigious schools&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re still in shock&comma; honestly&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Aaron told the Washington Post at the time&period; &&num;8216&semi;I don&&num;8217&semi;t think it has sunk in yet&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-176088" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;aaron-nick-nigel-and-zachary-wade5&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Aaron&comma; Nick&comma; Nigel and Zachary Wade5" width&equals;"683" height&equals;"460" &sol;><strong>Student athletes&colon; Stars in the classroom and stars also in track and field <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-176087" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;05&sol;yale-campus1&period;png" alt&equals;"Yale campus1" width&equals;"685" height&equals;"435" &sol;><strong>The Wade brothers will be taking classes in Yale&comma; this fall<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;We didn&&num;8217&semi;t go into this thinking&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Oh&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re going to apply to all these schools and get into all of them&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t so much about the prestige or so much about the name as it was &&num;8211&semi; it was important that we each find a school where we think that we&&num;8217&semi;ll thrive&comma; and where we think that we&&num;8217&semi;ll contribute&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In addition to Aaron getting an offer from Stanford&comma; Nick also had the chance to go to Duke or Georgetown&comma; Zach was accepted into Cornell&comma; and Nigel got into Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The brothers are also award-winning track and field stars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div id&equals;"inread&lowbar;player" class&equals;"adHolder"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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