{"id":2621,"date":"2021-05-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/uncategorized\/jamal-wilkes-ivy-league-harvard-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-05-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T12:00:00","slug":"jamal-wilkes-ivy-league-harvard-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-news\/jamal-wilkes-ivy-league-harvard-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamal Wilkes, Wolmer\u2019s Boys past student, accepted by six Ivy League schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by TVJ Smile Jamaica<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 6, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/smile-jamal-wilkes-2021.jpg\" alt=\"Still from TVJ Smile Jamaica, 6 May 2021. TVJ Xtra \/ YouTube.\" class=\"wp-image-2617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/smile-jamal-wilkes-2021.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/smile-jamal-wilkes-2021-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo: TVJ Xtra \/ YouTube, 6 May 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Television Jamaica\u2019s <em>Smile Jamaica<\/em> on 6 May 2021 interviewed 18-year-old Jamal Wilkes, a past student of Wolmer\u2019s High School for Boys. The official YouTube description records that he had been accepted to 16 universities, six of them Ivy League, and that he spoke about his acceptance to Harvard University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TVJ Smile Jamaica, 6 May 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Jamaican Born Teen Accepted by 6 Ivy League Schools | TVJ Smile Jamaica\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AWcz7Eryefw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AWcz7Eryefw\">TVJ Xtra \/ YouTube<\/a>, 6 May 2021. Republished for the Wolmer\u2019s Trust community with attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by TVJ Smile Jamaica May 6, 2021 Television Jamaica\u2019s Smile Jamaica on 6 May 2021 interviewed 18-year-old Jamal Wilkes, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-featured","category-trust-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}