Inspiring: Young man with down syndrome finds out he's been accepted to college

Parents filmed the moment he opened the acceptance letter

DETROIT – Noah VanVooren is a high school senior in Wisconsin and he has Down Syndrome.

He recently received some news that he didn't expect -- he found out he'd been accepted into college.

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The moment Noah opened the acceptance letter was filmed by his parents, and since have almost 100,000 hits on YouTube.

"I got accepted! Yes! Yeah! Yeah!" Noah said, at one point taking off his Wisconsin Badgers sweatshirt. Watch the video below or right here.

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