{"id":19732,"date":"2017-04-06T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=19732"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:18:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:18:04","slug":"im-going-to-baylor-students-acceptance-video-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/04\/im-going-to-baylor-students-acceptance-video-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;M GOING TO BAYLOR!&#8221; Student&#8217;s acceptance video goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19733\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/patrick-eriom-acceptance-video.jpg\" alt=\"patrick-eriom-baylor-acceptance-letter-video\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/patrick-eriom-acceptance-video.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/patrick-eriom-acceptance-video-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/patrick-eriom-acceptance-video-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By now, you\u2019ve probably seen the video of the high school senior\u2019s heartwarming reaction after opening an envelope from Baylor and reading the words every future Bear hopes to see: \u201cYou\u2019ve been accepted for enrollment into the Class of 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That senior is future Baylor Bear Patrick Eriom, and his video has gone viral within the Baylor community. If you haven\u2019t watched it (or want to see it again), take a minute out of your day to share in his pure joy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61388081925\/videos\/10155179780331926\/\">click here if the embedded video below doesn&#8217;t load properly<\/a>):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F61388081925%2Fvideos%2F10155179780331926%2F&amp;show_text=1&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Patrick, Baylor was THE university. No alternative. No fallbacks. So when he came home after a soccer game, exhausted and discouraged by his team\u2019s loss, there was nothing more exciting than his family telling him he\u2019d gotten a packet in the mail from Baylor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to expect,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/stationcaster.com\/player_skinned.php?s=491&amp;c=2601&amp;f=5895543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick told 1660 ESPN Radio<\/a>\u00a0just a few days after his sister recorded the video. \u201cI had mixed emotions coming back from the game. I\u2019m starting to open up the letter &#8212; it\u2019s my sister recording, actually&#8230; I opened it up and I get to the first letter itself, but I was in so much of a hurry that I just couldn\u2019t read through all that. So I opened up the green envelope and it was honestly the best moment of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video shows Patrick sharing his joy with his biggest\u00a0supporter and fan, the person who\u2019s been there while he pined for Baylor for years &#8212; his mom. \u201cIt\u2019s really exciting,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed, and very thankful to God, because this is a dream he\u2019s nursed for years. \u2026 For him, it\u2019s a new life and it\u2019s a whole new world, a whole new experience. And as a parent it\u2019s hard to let go, but we just have to let go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Baylor shared his video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/61388081925\/videos\/10155179780331926\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beabaylorbear\/status\/845618927283658754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BSSVfGhDoZV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a>, Patrick has received hundreds of comments congratulating him and welcoming him into the Baylor family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to Baylor for giving me this opportunity,\u201d he\u00a0says. \u201cIt\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And also I\u2019d like to give a big thank you to everyone who\u2019s been an impact in my life: my soccer team, my mom, my uncle, my sister especially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Patrick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you\u2019ve probably seen the video of the high school senior\u2019s heartwarming reaction after opening an envelope from Baylor and reading the words every future Bear hopes to see: \u201cYou\u2019ve been accepted for enrollment into the Class of 2021.\u201d That senior is future Baylor Bear Patrick Eriom, and his video has gone viral within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}