Seniors' Plans for College Shaping Up
At this time of year excitement is building for senior students as they start to see the value of their hard work in the form of college acceptances. While the majority of college acceptances will not be known until April 1, many of our students have already had exciting news regarding early acceptances. As a school, we are delighted by the opportunities that our students are being offered, because the students' needs are being matched by the college acceptances, and also by the recognition of the students' hard work and the IB Diploma.
Nik Beisert applied for early decision (which is binding) at Babson College in Massachussetts. He chose Babson because it is a small school with a large international student enrollment, and he is attracted to being in a similar environment to AIS. Nik is interested in a business degree, and Babson is well-established as an entrepreneurial leader, so he is very happy to have been accepted and happier still that the college has offered him a generous scholarship.
Matthew Keeter has already received four acceptances out of the eight or nine he applied to. Each of the four has offered him scholarship money. He wants a school that is strong in both liberal arts and science, although his degree is likely to be in engineering. Those that have accepted Matthew so far are Georgia Tech, where he is a Presidential Scholars finalist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Matthew has also been accepted at Rice University, where he was named a Century Scholar which generously supports extra-curricular research during the first two years of college; he was also awarded the Trustees Distinguished Scholarship which generously underwrites tuition.
Cassie Huntley is very excited about her conditional offers of acceptance from Oxford and Sussex universities in Britain. She has also been accepted at the University of Georgia. She is waiting for decisions from high-quality universities in the United States as well as from McGill in Canada.
Charles Vanijcharoenkarn has applied to nine universities, and has received acceptances from Yale University and Georgia Tech, where he is a finalist for the Presidential Scholars. Charles is looking for a school with a wide range of subjects from science to liberal arts, intending to take many courses his freshman year before settling on his focus in his second year. He is waiting to hear from the other universities before deciding where he will go.
Naseem Ghannad, planning eventually to do Montessori teacher training, is looking for a liberal arts college with a relatively small campus. Of the seven she has applied to, five have already accepted her and offered her scholarships. She has narrowed her top two choices so far to Eckerd College and Berry College, but is waiting to hear from her final two choices before making a decision.
Nick Anspach has received early acceptances from two of the three colleges he applied to—UGA and University of Miami. He believes the generous scholarship offer from Miami was due in large part to his GPA and his IB courses.
These are just a few of the many students who have received early acceptances. A complete list will be included in the final Globetrotter of the year.