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Get to know Lukasz Zbylut:
-- 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)
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