They’re the brainiacs of The Bronx.
Nine newly minted graduates of Cardinal Spellman Catholic high school are now in the “Millionaire’s Club’’ — raking in a whopping total nearly $11 million in scholarship money.
The teen geniuses were each awarded more than $1 million in merit-based grants — much of it from a plethora of prestigious schools, including Ivy Leagues — for a staggering total of $10,799,476.
Cardinal Spellman high-school students (clockwise from top left) Shakira Simo, Robert Hernandez, Gabrielle Henriques, Nina Gonzales, Akua Amponsah, Rehema Ojwang and Kaylynn Little beam after reaping a total of nearly $11 million in college scholarship money this year. Stephen Yang
“Somebody actually called and argued with me that that was impossible,” said Dierdre Gibbons, the director of admissions at Spellman.
Rehema Ojwang, one of the amazing nine, said, “It kind of shows people that are just coming up and are about to