Identical twins Kirstie and Kristie Bronner share practically everything: hobbies, favorite colors, favorite foods, and clothes. But now they can share the title of valedictorian.
Kirstie and Kristie, both 22, from Atlanta, Ga., will graduate
May 19 as the first co-valedictorians who are also identical twins at Spelman College, in Atlanta.
“I don’t think we even thought about the possibility of it,” Kristie told ABCNews.com.
“We actually have prayed about it,” Kirstie said. “Lord help us to make 4.0s all the way through college.”
The two have the same major—music—and both have perfect 4.0 GPAs. The sisters managed to keep up their grades while juggling Spelman College’s glee club and volunteering at their father’s church, Word of Faith Family Worship Cathedral.
“I am extremely proud of them. They have gotten that particular status the old fashion way,” their father, Bishop Dale Bronner, told ABCNews.com. “Their greatest asset is their discipline. They got their brilliance from the mother, but they got their discipline from their father.”
“We prayed harder than everybody else and worked harder,” Kirstie said.
For the twins, their achievement meant having to sacrifice going out on the weekends occasionally. “Our friends kind of just stopped asking,” Kristie said.
The sisters attribute most of their achievements to their relationship and their similarities. “Our values are the same,” Kristie said. “Our drive is the same. We spend a lot of time together so we always studied together.”
In fact, their personalities are so similar that the two said that they’ve had many occurrences where they’ve written papers or taken tests and had the same thesis points or wrong answers.
