Minnesota brothers both accepted into Yale just 1 year apart

Admission to an Ivy League school is difficult — even more so for a first-generation student — but two Minnesota brothers overcame the odds and are attending Yale this fall.

“They were all like, ‘He got into Yale! He got into Yale!'” said Joaquin Santoscoy-MacPhee, who remembers getting the call about his brother during his freshman year there.

“My dream was always to be at Yale because my brother was there,” said Giovani Santoscoy-MacPhee, who will be an incoming freshman at the Ivy League this fall…

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