FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, US & WORLD NEWS May 4, 2017

TEEN COULDN’T FIND PROM DATE – SO SHE WENT WITH HER HARVARD ACCEPTANCE LETTER INSTEAD

When high school senior Priscilla Samey wasn’t asked to prom, that didn’t stop her from attending. But chose to go with a rather unususal date: her Harvard acceptance letter.

After posting a photo with the acceptance packet as her date on Twitter, the girl power moment immediately went viral. “Couldn’t find a man to accept me for prom so I took a college that did #Harvard2021 #prom2k17,” she captioned the post, which has garnered over 29,000 retweets and more than 126,000 likes.

The 17-year-old wasn’t only accepted into Harvard but seven Ivy League schools including Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, and Cornell.

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