The (Super-Seriously-Honest) Confessions of a High Schooler. Adaolisa Mbe was born in Miami, Florida and lived there her entire life until she joined the Edina A Better Chance program. Adaolisa’s parents immigrated from Nigeria in the late 90's and early 2000's and have 4 children. Adaolisa has an older brother who's at the University of Florida, a younger sister who's a junior at EHS, and a younger brother who's a freshman at her hometown high school.
She has been an Edina A Better Chance scholar for four years, but spent one year at home because of COVID.
She will graduate from Edina High School this June and will begin her university career at Harvard this fall.