A high school senior whose family moved to Sugar Land from Nigeria seven years ago received an acceptance letter from Baylor this week and video of his exuberant reaction went viral.

Patrick Eriom says he has always dreamed of going to college, but the only school on his list was Baylor.

"It was Baylor or nothing else," said Treselett Cawo, Eriom’s mother.

Patrick has never even set foot on the campus of the school he's long dreamed of attending, but he says he knew it was for him.

"It's a place where I can get good academics and also I can practice my faith freely and develop my faith positively," Eriom said.

"I only applied to Baylor and it spread around the whole school that I only applied to Baylor and people were calling me crazy because they thought I wouldn't get in," Eriom said.

"But I stayed strong to my prayer and I said I know I'm going to Baylor University."

Which would explain the excitement captured on the video when Patrick's mother and younger sister told him there was an envelope waiting for him this week from Baylor University.

"I opened up the green envelope and I saw the most amazing thing of my life," he said.

"I saw ‘Patrick you have been admitted to Baylor University, Class of '21.’"

Eriom jumped in the air, screamed, cried and hugged his mother while the camera rolled, declaring, "I'm going to Baylor! I’m going to Baylor!"

At one point, he collapsed into his mother’s arms.

"I can't describe it," he said when asked what that embrace meant to him.

"Everything my mom has worked for. It's going to pay off."

Eriom will start school at Baylor in the fall, not on a scholarship, but says he has plans to become a doctor.