Title:
18 Year Old Immigrant From Poland A Success Story In America

Description:
Wow! This guy made me proud to be an American. We still are the greatest country on earth. -- Born in Poland and moved to the United States when he was 13 years old. -- During the first six months in New York, he taught himself English and went to a public school in Brooklyn. -- Now at 18 years old, he graduating as the valedictorian from Utrecht High School next week -- In high school, he was part of Model UN, and created and headed the debate team. He was also part of a soccer team in his community. -- He applied to 21 universities, including 7 Ivy League schools. -- Out of the 21, Lukasz withdrew from 2, and was only denied by 1, MIT. -- Lukasz was accepted to: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, Middlebury, Amherst, Occidental, Richmond, Ohio Wesleyan, DePauw, Carnegie Mellon and CUNY HunterH -- He does not use social networking sites, instant messaging or watch entertainment television. He considers all of it a waste of time. He does, though, watch network news channels. -- While he was in high school he took 12 Advance Placement courses and received perfect scores on all his final A.P. tests. This gave him full credit towards college and a final count of 45 college credits at the end of it all. BUT according to Harvard rules, they are only accepting 6 of those 45 credits. (30 credits=1 year of college) -- Lukasz plans on going to Harvard Law after his undergrad and pursuing a career in politics from there. -- He is the only student from his graduating class to be accepted to an Ivy League school. (575 students graduating next week) --Zbylut is graduating from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn with a 4.7 GPA.

Author:
CivilizedJerk

Tags:
America, Harvard, High, immigrant, immigration, Lukasz, poland, polish, School, Utrecht, valedictorian, Zbylut,