Naugatuck Quadruplets Set to Attend Quinnipiac University Together

They’ve been together from the beginning and they’ll be together still - a set of quadruplets is about to graduate high school and head off to Quinnipiac University this fall.

The Ciacciarella siblings were the first set of quadruplets to be born at Yale-New Haven Hospital 18 years ago. Michael, Vincent, Sofia and Anna, who were born in that order, visited around 50 colleges and universities from coast to coast trying to find a good fit for each of them Eventually, they all came to the same decision about where to go.

“I think that’s the great thing about Quinnipiac is that it does offer something for each of them and they can grow here individually but also together,” said their mother Anne Ciacciarella.

The twins are sticking together for now, but they have a wide variety of academic interests.

“I’m planning on majoring in civil engineering,” Michael said.

“And I plan on majoring in communications,” Vincent explained.

“I’m majoring in biology,” Sofia added.

“They have an amazing English program and I’m helping them with a new environmental studies program,” Anna finished.

Anna, the youngest, was the last to settle on QU.

“There’s a lot of pressure. I wasn’t really sure it was a last minute decision but we came to campus one night and I just had a really good feeling,” she told NBC Connecticut.

The quadruplets said after 18 years of living together at their home in Naugatuck, when they arrive on campus in August they plan to live in different dorms.

Mom is just thrilled they’re sticking together, not too far from home.

“If I go the long way and I go slow it's 28 minutes,” Anne said.

“I think they always wanted us to be close to home and they always wanted us to be together,” Michael commented.

“But we made it clear that we’re in Hamden, they stay in Naugatuck, we stay in Hamden,” Vincent added.

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