NY high school boasts whopping 15 sets of twins set to graduate: ‘There’s just something in the water’

A precocious schoolhouse successful nan suburbs of New York City will beryllium seeing double connected graduation time this weekend: Among nan astir 500 students successful its graduating class, 30 are twins.

It’s a tight knit group.

Some of nan students astatine Long Island’s Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School person known each different since kindergarten, their parents gathering done a section twins club. Some moreover still scheme family vacations together.

These days, immoderate of nan twins are connected a group matter chain, which has helped them header pinch their newfound notoriety arsenic graduation time approaches.

“Honestly erstwhile we’re together, nan room is electric,” said Sydney Monka, arsenic she attended graduation rehearsal pinch nan different twins earlier this week.

“We’re each very comfortable astir each different and we each person these shared experiences truthful we’re each bouncing disconnected each other. It’s really cool.”

They’re twins but not identical.

Save for nan shared past names, though, nan pairs whitethorn beryllium difficult to spot arsenic they locomotion nan shape Sunday astatine their precocious schoolhouse graduation, held astatine Hofstra University successful Hempstead.

The students are each fraternal twins — meaning calved from different eggs and sperm — truthful nary of them are identical.

Many of nan twins are different genders.

That doesn’t make nan bonds immoderate little tight, says Bari Cohen, who is attending Indiana University successful nan fall.

“Especially for boy-girl twins, a batch of group deliberation it’s just, like, siblings, but it’s much than that, because we spell done nan aforesaid things astatine nan aforesaid time,” she said of her brother, Braydon Cohen, who is headed to nan University of Pittsburgh.

Most, erstwhile prodded, springiness a playful motion astatine nan funny arena successful nan precocious school, which is located successful an affluent, mostly achromatic territory astir 35 miles (56 kilometers) eastbound of Manhattan.

“I conjecture there’s conscionable thing successful nan water,” said Emily Brake, who is attending nan University of Georgia, echoing a communal refrain among nan twins.

“We’re each conscionable very lucky. I deliberation it’s conscionable a coincidence,” added her sister, Amanda Brake, who will beryllium attending Ohio State University.

Others admit there’s much than Mother Nature astatine work.

Arianna Cammareri said her parents had been trying for years to person kids and successful vitro fertilization was their past option.

Back then, it was much communal than it is now for IVF babies to beryllium twins aliases triplets.

There besides whitethorn beryllium a familial constituent astatine play.

“There’s a fewer twins successful our family, for illustration I person cousins that are twins, truthful I conjecture that raised nan chances of having twins,” added nan incoming freshman astatine Stony Brook University, besides connected Long Island.

Large cohorts of twins are not different astatine Plainview-Old Bethpage.

The precocious schoolhouse had back-to-back graduating classes pinch 10 sets of multiples successful 2014 and 2015, and adjacent year’s incoming freshmen people has 9 sets of twins, according to schoolhouse officials.

Among nan different schools astir nan state pinch large sets of graduating twins are Clovis North High School successful Fresno, California, pinch 14 pairs, and Eleanor Roosevelt High School successful Greenbelt, Maryland, pinch 10 pairs.

Last year, a mediate schoolhouse successful suburban Boston had 23 sets of twins in its graduating class, though that’s still acold awkward of nan grounds for astir multiples successful nan aforesaid world class.

New Trier High School successful Winnetka, Illinois, had a whopping 44 copy pairs and a group of triplets successful 2017, according to Guinness World Records.

After graduation, astir of nan twins astatine Plainview-Old Bethpage are heading disconnected to different colleges.

An objection is Aiden and Chloe Manzo, who will some be nan University of Florida, wherever they’ll unrecorded successful nan aforesaid dormitory connected field and some study business, though pinch different majors.

“We’re going to spot each different a lot,” Chloe said wryly.

“Deep down, my mom knew it would beryllium easier if we went to nan aforesaid school,” she added.

“You know, for illustration moving in, graduation, going to sports games.”

Some were apprehensive astir surviving acold from their longtime partner successful crime.

Emma and Kayla Leibowitz will beryllium attending Binghamton and Syracuse University, respectively.

The 5th procreation twins opportunity they’re already making plans for predominant visits moreover though nan upstate New York schools are immoderate 80 miles (130 kilometers) apart.

“I deliberation it’s gonna beryllium really weird because we really do everything together. She’s my champion friend. I really can’t do thing without her,” said Emma.

“We’re sleeping complete each weekend. I’m coming for shot games — for illustration each of it,” said Kayla.

Others were looking guardant to getting immoderate breathing room.

Sydney and Kayla Jasser said they’re some studying manner creation — but astatine different colleges.

Sydney is attending nan University of Delaware while Kayla will beryllium attending Indiana University.

“We could person went to nan aforesaid college, but we conscionable wanted to beryllium capable to beryllium independent since we’ve been pinch each different forever,” Kayla said.

“It’s bully to get retired location and person our ain experiences.”