ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) — A Dieruff High School senior makes history after he was accepted to several Ivy League schools on full scholarships.<\/p>\n
Taking on challenges is nothing new for Christopher Dwornicki.<\/p>\n
“I try to push myself in school. I choose the hardest classes I can. It comes to me naturally, I guess,” Dwornicki told 69 News.<\/p>\n
Dwornicki said he always knew he wanted to go to college, following in the footsteps of his older sister and brother who are first generation college students.<\/p>\n
His parents came to the Lehigh Valley from Poland.<\/p>\n
“My parents both immigrated here when they were in their 20s so I guess they just really wanted to give us the American Dream and focus on getting our education. It’s always been something I’ve dreamt of doing since I was young. My mom is a cleaning lady and my dad works at Sharp Industries,” Dwornicki explained.<\/p>\n
When Dwornicki applied to multiple Ivy League schools for Mechanical Engineering, he wasn’t sure what to expect.<\/p>\n
“The first three I opened were all rejections so I was so scared and then I opened Princeton and it said accepted and it was crazy. So much washed over me. Then I opened the next one and I got in. And the next one. I got into Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford,” Dwornicki said.<\/p>\n
Dwornicki was shocked. All four schools offered him a full ride.<\/p>\n
“The number he got into is unprecedented. His true talent lies in his ability to take a model that’s he’s just learned the specifics of, a complex physics model, and really understand the nuances of it and then apply it to a novel situation. It’s an unusual skill and talent and he’s really good at it,” said Tyson Sprayberry, who oversees Dieruff’s Science Department and teaches A.P. Physics.<\/p>\n
Sprayberry taught Dwornicki and his two older siblings.<\/p>\n
Dwornicki, who is a member of the National Honor Society, Debate Club, Scholastic Scrimmage and Swim Team, said it’s all about following your dreams and putting in the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WFMZ) — A Dieruff High School senior makes history after he was accepted to several Ivy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,233],"class_list":["post-168911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}