Don't judge a book by its cover: He may look like 'a street boy', but this Nigerian student has a 5.0 GPA

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 18 year old Akintunde Ahmad (pictured above) doesn't appear to be your average brilliant student. He could possibly be and has been mistaken for a street thug, due to his looks, his sweatpants, gold chain and dreadlocks, but you know what they say, never judge a book by its cover.

The Oakland teen, who is a senior at Technical High School, has a 5.0 GPA, scored a 2100 on his SATs and has been accepted into Yale, Brown and Columbia. 

Tunde was recently on the Ellen Degeneres show were he announced he has decided to attend Yale. The talk show host invited Tunde to her show after hearing about the many obstacles he had to face to access where he's today. Ellen wanted to do something for him that he'll never forget.....