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Dual Enrollment Program Analysis

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I am Sami Kandil, a 10th grader attending the dual enrollment program between Pinnacle Academy and NOVA. With this note, I intend to prove my worthiness to this program and my purpose in attending it. First of all, I would like to draw attention to my potential and my capabilities. I, being barely over 5 months into 14, am one of the youngest students participating in this program including the 9th graders. However, I would strongly advise you not to be deceived by my age, and underestimate my maturity both socially and intellectually. As I said, I am one of the youngest in this program including the 9th graders because I skipped my final year in middle school due to my high potential in succeeding. I had given up my childhood when I was only …show more content…

If there is one issue that I could guarantee you about me, it is that the term “mature” is far too weak to describe my social maturity. I would doubt my intellectual maturity, but not my social maturity. When I accepted taking a high school course at 11 years of age, I threw away my childhood and embraced adulthood. Then, again, when I was 12, I accepted another high school course, taking another step to developing my social maturity. On the summer of my 7th grade year, I accepted 3 courses which meant I was to be working at least 6 hours everyday during summer in order to maintain an A in the classes. This was my final step out of childhood, and into adulthood. There was something I learned while I was taking those three classes. I learned that I have to know how to stand up on my own feet by myself and myself only. I learned that I need to prioritize in life with success coming first. I learned that life won’t wait for me if I took a break, instead it would run as fast as it can away from me. This matured me, grew me older, and demanded me to know what’s more important. By the time I was 13 years old, in 9th grade, taking 17 classes, I knew what was more important. I knew how to prioritize. I had matured into an adult early because I …show more content…

My goal is to be accepted to MIT for my undergraduates, and then, Harvard University for my postgraduates. I, truly, believe I can accomplish this with the opportunities NOVA offers me. The idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover” is quite applicable to my situation. There is a concept known as mental age in psychology, and it refers to the intellectual and emotional performance of a specific child compared to the average physical performance of the physical age of the child. The existence of this concept shows that there are physically young people who are mentally mature. I believe I am an example of such a person, and I, wholeheartedly, believe that I am worth NOVA and that I could certainly gain and display success even at such an

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