A student from Washington Heights, Malena Galletto, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, as well as all 20 different colleges and universities she applied to.
Galletto, who recently graduated from Bronx Science High School with a 97 % GPA, will be the first in her family to attend college, according to New York Post.
” When I was about to open]an admissions ] letter, I would prepare myself for it to be the first rejection letter. And finally I had opened them and it would always say,’ Congrats on being accepted!'” Galletto said. ” I was not expecting to get accepted everyday”.
” For as long as I can remember, college has always been my number one priority. Yet in secondary college, I remember always wanting to be at the top of my class”, she said.
At the Bronx Science, Galletto took 11 Advanced Placement courses, captained the Speech and Conversation Club, founded a student-led class devoted to sex justice, and served as secretary of the Senior Council, among other achievements.
Frances Kweller, the owner of the tuition business Kweller Prep, who has worked with Galletto since she was in fifth grade, praised her as a “doer on the real meaning of the American dream.”
The great achiever estimated that she spent approximately 200 time writing 70 additional essays for college applications, as well as spending a lot of time studying for the SAT, which received a score of 1560 out of 1600. A College Board program, which waived the application fees, which ranged from$ 50 to$ 85 each, provided financial relief.
Galletto’s journey with the University of Albany’s initial acceptance letter in December marked the beginning of her journey through school admittance. ” I was like,’ Yes, I’m going to school!'” she recalled.
Scholarships continued to pour in from prestigious corporations such as The University of Michigan, New York University, Columbia University, Boston University, Georgetown University, Barnard College, and Vassar College, among others.
However, March 28, the Ivy League warning day, was her admissions practice ‘ show. ” The first one I opened was from Cornell] University], and when that was a’ Yes,’ it was life changing… But when I opened Harvard] University], I was absolutely screaming”, Galletto said.
” Full over, it was always Harvard for me”, said Galletto, who plans to increase main in state and science at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, organization. ” I’m very excited. I ca n’t wait”, she added.
Her mom, Karina Romero, expressed enormous confidence in her mother’s efforts. ” I am so very proud. She’s always studying and doing her pretty best, and I’m so glad she got what she worked so hard to achieve”, Romero said.
City Department of Education representative Nicole Brownstein praised Galletto’s achievements, calling her 28 university admissions a “testament to her hard work and dedication”.
