2 M’sian Students Accepted Into Harvard College Even The Admission Rate is Lowest
source theharvardgazzette
Two lucky Malaysian students have managed to get into Harvard College this year, Muhammad Hamdi Ahmad Hakimi and Jarell Cheong Tze Wen will be joining the Ivy League school’s undergraduate class of 2025 where both 20 years old were selected out of 57,435 applicants and making them part of 1,968 students and the lowest admission rate Harvard College has ever seen in its 385 years history.
The Harvard alumni club also proudly announces that both the students are from the national education system where Hamdi completed high school at Sekolah Menengah Sains Alam Shah in Kuala Lumpur and A-Levels in Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar as a Bank Negara Kijang Scholar. Meanwhile, Cheong studied at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Seri Bintang Utara in Kuala Lumpur and took A-Levels at Sunway College, Petaling Jaya.
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Hamdi said that he is extremely grateful to be studying at an Ivy League school where he comes from a humble background in Kuantan, Pahan and he comes from a family that does not have the resources to send their children to university, he also plans to major in Economics at Harvard. He also said that he had to work several jobs to help his family make ends meet as well as lessen their burden when he decided to attend boarding school.
While Cheong from Kuala Lumpur said that Harvard will keep challenging his limits and offer him a great undergraduate experience where he also said that it is the rare individual who is both a gifted student and a Malaysian dancesport athlete where besides scoring A+ in all nine SPM subjects and A* in all of his A-Levels exams, Cheong represented Malaysia in the 2019 SEA Games in competitive ballroom dancing. He also completed under the Malaysian flag in the Asian pacific Mathematical Olympiad and various international chess tournaments too.
source @jarell.cheong