A highschool within the suburbs of Latest York City can be seeing double on graduation day this weekend: Among the many nearly 500 students in its graduating class, 30 are twins.
It’s a decent knit group.
Among the students at Long Island’s Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School have known one another since kindergarten, their parents meeting through an area twins club. Some even still plan family vacations together.
As of late, a few of the twins are on a bunch text chain, which has helped them deal with their newfound notoriety as graduation day approaches.
“Truthfully once we’re together, the room is electrical,” said Sydney Monka, as she attended graduation rehearsal with the opposite twins earlier this week.
“We’re all very comfortable around one another and all of us have these shared experiences so we’re all bouncing off one another. It’s really cool.”
They’re twins but not similar.
Save for the shared last names, though, the pairs could also be hard to identify as they walk the stage Sunday at their highschool graduation, held at Hofstra University in Hempstead.
The scholars are all fraternal twins — meaning born from different eggs and sperm — so none of them are similar.
Lots of the twins are different genders.
That doesn’t make the bonds any less tight, says Bari Cohen, who’s attending Indiana University in the autumn.
“Especially for boy-girl twins, loads of people think it’s just, like, siblings, however it’s greater than that, because we undergo the identical things at the identical time,” she said of her brother, Braydon Cohen, who’s headed to the University of Pittsburgh.
Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug on the curious phenomenon in the highschool, which is positioned in an affluent, largely white district about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Manhattan.
“I assume there’s just something within the water,” said Emily Brake, who’s attending the University of Georgia, echoing a standard refrain among the many twins.
“We’re all just very lucky. I feel it’s only a coincidence,” added her sister, Amanda Brake, who can be attending Ohio State University.
Others acknowledge there’s greater than Mother Nature at work.
Arianna Cammareri said her parents had been trying for years to have kids and in vitro fertilization was their last option.
Back then, it was more common than it’s now for IVF babies to be twins or triplets.
There also could also be a genetic component at play.
“There’s a couple of twins in our family, like I actually have cousins which can be twins, so I assume that raised the possibilities of getting twins,” added the incoming freshman at Stony Brook University, also on Long Island.
Large cohorts of twins should not unusual at Plainview-Old Bethpage.
The highschool had back-to-back graduating classes with 10 sets of multiples in 2014 and 2015, and next 12 months’s incoming freshmen class has nine sets of twins, in accordance with school officials.
Among the many other schools across the country with big sets of graduating twins are Clovis North High School in Fresno, California, with 14 pairs, and Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland, with 10 pairs.
Last 12 months, a middle school in suburban Boston had 23 sets of twins in its graduating class, though that’s still far shy of the record for many multiples in the identical academic class.
Latest Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, had a whopping 44 twin pairs and a set of triplets in 2017, in accordance with Guinness World Records.
After graduation, many of the twins at Plainview-Old Bethpage are heading off to different colleges.
An exception is Aiden and Chloe Manzo, who will each attend the University of Florida, where they’ll live in the identical dormitory on campus and each study business, though with different majors.
“We’re going to see one another loads,” Chloe said wryly.
“Deep down, my mom knew it will be easier if we went to the identical school,” she added.
“You recognize, like moving in, graduation, going to sports games.”
Some were apprehensive about living removed from their longtime partner in crime.
Emma and Kayla Leibowitz can be attending Binghamton and Syracuse University, respectively.
The fifth generation twins say they’re already planning for frequent visits although the upstate Latest York schools are some 80 miles (130 kilometers) apart.
“I feel it’s gonna be really weird because we actually do every little thing together. She’s my best friend. I actually can’t do anything without her,” said Emma.
“We’re sleeping over every weekend. I’m coming for football games — like all of it,” said Kayla.
Others were looking forward to getting some respiration room.
Sydney and Kayla Jasser said they’re each studying fashion design — but at different colleges.
Sydney is attending the University of Delaware while Kayla can be attending Indiana University.
“We could have went to the identical college, but we just desired to have the opportunity to be independent since we’ve been with one another endlessly,” Kayla said.
“It’s good to get on the market and have our own experiences.”
A highschool within the suburbs of Latest York City can be seeing double on graduation day this weekend: Among the many nearly 500 students in its graduating class, 30 are twins.
It’s a decent knit group.
Among the students at Long Island’s Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School have known one another since kindergarten, their parents meeting through an area twins club. Some even still plan family vacations together.
As of late, a few of the twins are on a bunch text chain, which has helped them deal with their newfound notoriety as graduation day approaches.
“Truthfully once we’re together, the room is electrical,” said Sydney Monka, as she attended graduation rehearsal with the opposite twins earlier this week.
“We’re all very comfortable around one another and all of us have these shared experiences so we’re all bouncing off one another. It’s really cool.”
They’re twins but not similar.
Save for the shared last names, though, the pairs could also be hard to identify as they walk the stage Sunday at their highschool graduation, held at Hofstra University in Hempstead.
The scholars are all fraternal twins — meaning born from different eggs and sperm — so none of them are similar.
Lots of the twins are different genders.
That doesn’t make the bonds any less tight, says Bari Cohen, who’s attending Indiana University in the autumn.
“Especially for boy-girl twins, loads of people think it’s just, like, siblings, however it’s greater than that, because we undergo the identical things at the identical time,” she said of her brother, Braydon Cohen, who’s headed to the University of Pittsburgh.
Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug on the curious phenomenon in the highschool, which is positioned in an affluent, largely white district about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Manhattan.
“I assume there’s just something within the water,” said Emily Brake, who’s attending the University of Georgia, echoing a standard refrain among the many twins.
“We’re all just very lucky. I feel it’s only a coincidence,” added her sister, Amanda Brake, who can be attending Ohio State University.
Others acknowledge there’s greater than Mother Nature at work.
Arianna Cammareri said her parents had been trying for years to have kids and in vitro fertilization was their last option.
Back then, it was more common than it’s now for IVF babies to be twins or triplets.
There also could also be a genetic component at play.
“There’s a couple of twins in our family, like I actually have cousins which can be twins, so I assume that raised the possibilities of getting twins,” added the incoming freshman at Stony Brook University, also on Long Island.
Large cohorts of twins should not unusual at Plainview-Old Bethpage.
The highschool had back-to-back graduating classes with 10 sets of multiples in 2014 and 2015, and next 12 months’s incoming freshmen class has nine sets of twins, in accordance with school officials.
Among the many other schools across the country with big sets of graduating twins are Clovis North High School in Fresno, California, with 14 pairs, and Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, Maryland, with 10 pairs.
Last 12 months, a middle school in suburban Boston had 23 sets of twins in its graduating class, though that’s still far shy of the record for many multiples in the identical academic class.
Latest Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, had a whopping 44 twin pairs and a set of triplets in 2017, in accordance with Guinness World Records.
After graduation, many of the twins at Plainview-Old Bethpage are heading off to different colleges.
An exception is Aiden and Chloe Manzo, who will each attend the University of Florida, where they’ll live in the identical dormitory on campus and each study business, though with different majors.
“We’re going to see one another loads,” Chloe said wryly.
“Deep down, my mom knew it will be easier if we went to the identical school,” she added.
“You recognize, like moving in, graduation, going to sports games.”
Some were apprehensive about living removed from their longtime partner in crime.
Emma and Kayla Leibowitz can be attending Binghamton and Syracuse University, respectively.
The fifth generation twins say they’re already planning for frequent visits although the upstate Latest York schools are some 80 miles (130 kilometers) apart.
“I feel it’s gonna be really weird because we actually do every little thing together. She’s my best friend. I actually can’t do anything without her,” said Emma.
“We’re sleeping over every weekend. I’m coming for football games — like all of it,” said Kayla.
Others were looking forward to getting some respiration room.
Sydney and Kayla Jasser said they’re each studying fashion design — but at different colleges.
Sydney is attending the University of Delaware while Kayla can be attending Indiana University.
“We could have went to the identical college, but we just desired to have the opportunity to be independent since we’ve been with one another endlessly,” Kayla said.
“It’s good to get on the market and have our own experiences.”
