[caption id="attachment_422389" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Mekhi Johnson, a senior at the Gilman School, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. (The Gilman School)[/caption] When Mekhi Johnson was 6 years old, he heard a story on the radio: A student had been accepted into all eight of the Ivy League schools. “I’m going to do that one day,” he told his mother. The Gilman School senior recently found out he’s achieved his goal, earning an acceptance at each of the eight elite institutions. Johnson also got into the University of Chicago, according to a news release from his all-boys prep school in Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood. The Ivy League schools — including Harvard, Yale and Princeton — received more than 280,000 applications last year, with fewer than five students getting into all eight universities, according to the release. Johnson is the first Gilman student to ever achieve this. Johnson has attended Gilman since first grade, and has a 98.1 grade point average. He edits the school’s yearbook and literary magazine, plays in the jazz band and drum line and works on musical theater productions. He also volunteers with a group that serves elementary school students from low-income neighborhoods. A National Merit Scholarship Program commended student, Johnson sings with the Gilman a capella choir and serves as Diversity Council president. He has not yet selected a college. SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun, Talia Richman