Kyle Yazzie, 18, says he couldn't pass up a chance to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Yazzie, a graduate of Kirtland Central High School in New Mexico, was accepted by Yale. But he said he wanted to go to MIT, the nation's top technical and engineering school.
�Your life, your education is what you are willing to put into it," Yazzie told The Farmington Daily Times. "I know MIT will be very challenging, but I do not think I would be satisfied any other way,�
Yazzie leaves for Massachusetts this weekend.
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Kirtland grad turns down Yale for MIT
(The Farmington Daily Times 8/18)
Navajo student ready for challenge of MIT
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
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