Aug. 31, 2015
Black Indiana Teenager Aces National Pre-College Tests
By Zenitha Prince
Love Osunnuga (Screenshot WSBT22 news report)
Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - A Black Indiana teenager has achieved a feat that very few American students can claim—she attained perfect ACT, SAT, PSAT and AP scores.
Love Osunnuga, 15, skipped both the first and fifth grades so she will be a mere 16 when she heads off to college. And the sky’s the limit when it comes to which colleges the South Bend teenager may likely get to choose from.
According to the College Board, which administers the SAT, only 585 out of the almost 1.7 million students in the United States who took the test in 2014 (or 0.035 percent) attained a perfect score of 2400.
And, only 0.08 percent (1,598) of the more than 1.9 million ACT test takers nationwide earned the highest composite score of 36, according to the organization’s yearly report.
Osunnuga said she put in a lot of work but that even she was surprised at how well it paid off.
“I would say I studied a lot, I took a lot of practice tests,” Osunnuga told WSBT 22. She added, “I was just shocked, I thought you had to be a super genius, like, studied for months and prepared beforehand to get that kind of score.”
The St. Joseph High School senior said she plans to follow in her Nigeria-born parents’ footsteps: her father, Sunday Osunnuga is an emergency physician and her mother, Grace Osunnuga is a nurse and St. Mary’s College professor. The teenager plans to become a dermatologist.