Two sisters are making history at their Long Island, New York high school.
Their hard work has made them the school’s first twins to sweep the valedictorian and salutatorian honors and also the first to both be admitted to Yale University.
The student-athletes are not only top-notch scholars but all-state varsity letter-women in track and field, receiving high praise from teachers, administration, and their parents.
Gloria and Victoria, the Guerrier twins are first and second in their classes respectively. They are set to graduate from West Hempstead Secondary School this June, according to ABC 7. Now, the two have been accepted into the fourth-oldest American university and will be studying artificial intelligence. They have also earned spots on the Ivy League school’s track team.
Newsday reports Gloria has a 105.3 grade-point average, and her sister Victoria is graduating with a 104.9.
The two have pushed each other to the top of their class, looking at each other as support systems and also at each other as their most fierce competition.
“Being competitive as twins, we push each other,” Victoria said.
Their mother said they were even competing against each other in the womb but assumed other roles in each other’s lives. She said they are each other’s support systems, and in some cases make sure neither twin falls behind in subjects the other is not as strong in.
“Subjects like AP physics. I’m always over there over her shoulder helping her, and maybe in English, she gives me a hand,” Gloria shared as Victoria added, “In essay writing, I think I’m the better writer.”
Outside of being outstanding scholars and athletes, the two teens are hard-working and sacrifice a lot of their free time to help lighten the load of their family: mother, father and three other sisters.
At the age of 11, they both went and got part-time jobs to help the family after their father became disabled in 2016.
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