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University Offers… They Just Won’t Stop!

10 April 2008
Rick Rodrigues
We are well into the Spring Term, and the offers of admission continue to roll in to the inboxes and mailboxes of our senior students! Nearly all schools from the United States and the United Kingdom have responded, and the news has been overwhelmingly positive. In fact, our admissions to universities in the United States have been the most successful in years, incredibly during which has to be the most competitive period in American admissions in a generation! And although Canadian schools have been feverishly pumping out the offers, there are still many applications awaiting replies. So the list will grow ever longer and stronger in the weeks to come. To see the list of all offers of admission received to date, please see [University Offers] It is out pleasure to announce the following students who have been added to the list of those who have gained early acceptance to university: In Canada: Jessica Chai, Nathan Cheng, Cael Cook, Sebastien Lowes, Emily Rahkit, Jesse Shannon and Daniel Thompson to Arts; Colin Gilbert to Engineering; and Tessa Skoretz to Human Kinetics; all at the University of British Columbia, OkanaganBianca DeSilva and Kelsey Hutton to Social Sciences at the University of VictoriaGeoffrey Friderichs to Human Kinetics, Wells Greeno-McNeil to Engineering, and Hannah Snetsinger and Nicholas Zimmel to Arts at the University of British Columbia, VancouverMira Glesby to Physical & Health Education at Queen’s UniversityBenjamin P. Harris to Commerce, Sebastien Lowes to Arts, and Cathy Stothart to Kinesiology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NSBrendan Meuhlenberg to Kinesiology at Brock University in St. Catharines, ONLenutsa Reid to the Technology Education Program at BCIT in VancouverHannah Snetsinger to Arts at McGill University in MontrealStefanie Steinbrink-Kelly to Business Administration at Malaspina University College in Nanaimo In the United States: Ophelia Chua to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, although she has already expressed her intention to study Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, NCCarl Dietrich to Colleges of Engineering at Santa Clara University, the University of Delaware, Virginia Tech, and American and George Washington Universities, both in Washington, DCBen Fortson to the University of Washington, Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, and the University of California, Santa BarbaraJack Kim to the University of BostonRay Kim, adding to an already impressive list, the University Wisconsin and the University of California, Santa Cruz Derek Kozel to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute, with a $10,000 entrance scholarship, and the University of California campuses at Davis, Los Angeles and San DiegoAnnika Hammerschlag to the University of California campuses at Davis, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa BarbaraAbby Rosen to Liberal Arts and Science programs at Colgate University in Hamilton, NY, the Universities of Vermont and Washington, and Trinity College in Hartford, CT, although those offers may not be enough to tempt her away from studying Medicine at St. Andrews University in Scotland come SeptemberDaniel Thompson to Human Sports Science at Oregon State UniversityJordon Townsend to the University of WashingtonSteven Yang to Colgate University, Carnegie Mellon University and, a first for Brentwood, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN… Steven already has an extensive country-western playlist on his iPod! In the United Kingdom: Young Gun Park to Medical Biology at the University of Edinburgh and Biomedical Sciences at University of WarwickChisato Nishida to Business Management at King’s College LondonBraden Touche to Law at Queen Mary, University of LondonMira Glesby to Medicine at University of Leeds In fact, Mira’s acceptance means that all ten of our applicants to medical programs to the United Kingdom have received at least one offer of admission, a highly commendable achievement!

Rick Rodrigues

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