Triplets Stevie, Alex and Robert Meyer share a unique brotherly bond but are ready for different college journeys.

They were born over a seven-minute span, and since have spent almost their entire lives together.

Whether its playing sports, squabbling over different things at home, the first day of school or studying for exams, the Meyer brothers have been there for one another.

You really dont know any different, said Robert Meyer, the youngest of three triplets and Archbishop Wood seniors. I would just say that you just know you have two friends for life. You have your friends at school, but I have two right here at my house. There was always someone to play sports with, or help out with math ... or fight with.

Its like being born into a friend group, Alex Meyer said. It has truly been great. You always have two people you can rely on.

In the backdrop of the COVID-19 outbreak that has shut down schools in Pennsylvania and across the country, Robert, Alex, and Stevie Meyer will soon graduate from Archbishop Wood together.

That graduation wont quite be the same this year because of the virus is bittersweet for their mother, Diane Meyer, but it by no means takes away from the pride that beams when she speaks about her boys.

Every day of the week, all of the tough times you go through, you have a vision of that dream, Diane said about the lack of a traditional graduation ceremony. My dream was to see all three of them walk down that aisle (at graduation), and thats not going to happen.

But thats OK. Theyve achieved so much. Im really proud of these guys.

Between the three, the Meyer brothers were accepted at 35 colleges and combined received over $5.5 million in academic scholarship offers.

Me and my brothers, we worked hard for all of the years that weve been in school, said, Alex, who will attend Lehigh Univeristy and major in bio-chemistry, with his eye on a future in pharmaceutical research. There were times that wed stay in and not go out with our friends, and work on our school work. Its nice to see that all the hard work recognized and pay off in the end.

Stevie is off to Rochester Institute of Technology where he will study game design development, artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience. He also hopes to continue on in gymnastics, a sport hes competed in since fourth grade.

Im interested in making games for people with difficulties going outside, because of bullying or disabilities, things like that. Stevie said. I want to make games that will help them. Thats where the neuroscience comes in.

Robert is headed to Gettysburg College, where hell study political science, economics and international affairs with a track to pre-law. He also has a roster spot on the football team. He was the placekicker for Woods Class 5A state championship team last fall.

That all found places where theyll be happy and fit was important to Diane too. That all were so wanted by so many schools was another source of tremendous pride.

All of them, they worked so hard, she said. Being a single mom, and I was a single mother by choice, all of them were acutely aware that was going to be financially difficult to put three kids in college at the same time.

I said to them, dont look at the money when youre making your choice, but they were aware of it. They went out of their way to look for that. Robert, the future lawyer, they should give him a law degree right now, the way he negotiated with all of the colleges.

And its not just the scholarships, but the grants over and above that. It makes me feel good to know that others see what I see in them. Theyre academically gifted, but they work hard at it and have challenged themselves.

Im proud of them, but Im even more proud of the young men that they are and the character they each have.

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