ROTIMI KUKOYI: NIGERIAN TEEN GENIUS ACCEPTED INTO MORE THAN 15 UNIVERSITIES

Nigerian teen genius Rotimi Kukoyi accepted into more than 15 universities, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, awarded more than $2 million in scholarships.

Kukoyi, a high school senior and the first Black National Merit Scholar at his school, is from Hoover, Alabama.

He told ABC News he was inspired to apply to a number of places after appearing on the "Jeopardy!" Teen Tournament as a freshman in 2018, and meeting high achieving students from across the country.

Kukoyi ended up being accepted to a total of 15 prestigious universities, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Duke, the University of Alabama, Case Western Reserve University, UAB, Auburn University and Washington University in St. Louis.

Kukoyi ultimately decided to attend UNC-Chapel Hill and has accepted the school's Morehead-Cain Scholarship. the oldest merit scholarship program in the country. While at UNC, he hopes to pursue a career in public health, to help others.

"A lot of kids that I talked to didn't think they could apply to the bigger schools or get into the bigger schools" or were concerned about the costs, he said.

"But there are other resources available to students to kind of help with that."

Kukoyi also said that, as the only Black male student in all of his school classes, he hopes to change things so that underrepresented populations and lower-income students are offered the same learning opportunities as their peers.

Together with his fellow National Merit finalists, Kukoyi set up free tutoring for those in need of more academic support or resources, and for those seeking to take the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

Kukoyi, the child of Nigerian immigrants, is not only a star student but also plays soccer and was in student government. Still, despite all his accomplishments, he says he wants to be known for helping people.

"I want my legacy to be one that's focused on impacting other people," he said. "I suppose a lot of people in the pursuit of their own goals can kind of forget what it's all about."