Nobel Peace Prize winner and advocate for girls’ rights to education,Malala Yousafzai, announced her official admission to Oxford University on Thursday, signaling she’d earned the grades needed to get in.
The announcement was made after the U.K on Thursday released the results of A-levels, exams British teenagers take in their final year at school that can determine their acceptance at universities.
In March, Oxford granted Yousafzai conditional acceptance to study philosophy, politics, and economics at its Lady Margaret Hall if she achieved certain A-level grades.
Yousafzai shared a photo of her acceptance letter on Twitter, with the message “So excited to go to Oxford!!”
So excited to go to Oxford!! Well done to all A-level students – the hardest year. Best wishes for life ahead! pic.twitter.com/miIwK6fNSf
— Malala (@Malala) August 17, 2017
In 2012 at age 14, masked Taliban gunmen singled her out on a bus of schoolchildren, shooting her in the head and neck. At the time, a Taliban spokesman told the New York Times that Yousafzai had been targeted, calling her crusade of education rights an “obscenity.” It took the intervention of the world, especially the British government to save her life. She was airlifted to Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham and recovering from her life-threatening injuries, Malala became a household name, continuing her call for girls’ education, only on a larger stage. She spoke at the United Nations, met then-President Barack Obama, and landed on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people. She published a memoir titled I Am Malala while continuing to go to school in Birmingham.
At age 17, she became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee awarded her the honor in 2014
