LIFE ON HIMES
Class of 2018: COLLEGE BOUND
Four years of dedication is paying
off for Jesuit High School's Class of
2018 as top colleges and universities
across the country and state will be
enrolling Jesuit's next graduating class
this fall.
Jesuit's Director of College Counseling,
Fernando Rodrigues, emphasizes the
thousands of universities, the college
counseling department has been work-
match for them.
For Tommy Pham '18 (Notre Dame),
Lazaro Alvelaez '18 (Boston College) and
Sam Sands '18 (North Carolina), that best
match also will include a prestigious,
four-year, full scholarship.
Scholar. An independent, national
college match and full scholarships to
exceptional students from lower-income
backgrounds. Alvelaez earned the Presidential
Scholarship to Boston College
(following in the footsteps of Sergio Farina
'16), which includes summers abroad
and leadership opportunities. And Sands
earned a Morehead-Cain Scholarship,
an extremely highly selective honor at
North Carolina.
The students pictured on this page,
seated outside of Jesuit's new Chapel of
the Holy Cross, represent a cross section
of Jesuit's college acceptances. From left
to right, it's Alvelaez (Boston College)
and then Anthony Nelson '18, who
chose Harvard over numerous options,
including Princeton, and will play football
for the Crimson.
Next to Nelson is Ryan Welsh '18,
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the president of the Teens for Haiti
charitable organization, who will attend
Florida State along with numerous Jesuit
classmates. Alongside Welsh are Malik
Johnson '18 (Emory) and Sands (UNC),
who are among many who will attend
highly selective southeastern univer-
Duke (Kendrick Torain '18), and Virginia.
Several Jesuit seniors are expected
to enroll at the University of Virginia,
including Reid Clark '18, Christian
Jung '18, Joseph McGonnigal '18, and
brothers George Robbins '18 and John
Robbins '18.
Next in the photo is Diego Perez-Aracena
'18, an accomplished artist and
diver who is choosing between two
Ivy League universities, Columbia and
Brown, and several other schools on
both coasts. In the Georgetown t-shirt
and cap next to Perez-Aracena is Patrick
Eberly '18, a standout wrestler and
altar server who has chosen the Jesuit
university in Washington, D.C. Joining
Eberly at Georgetown is classmate
Charles Clark '18.
Matthew Tamashiro '18, a National
Merit Finalist who achieved a perfect
ACT score, is beside Eberly. Tamashiro
has accepted a full scholarship to the
University of Florida and is among many
from the Class of '18 headed to Gainesville.
The past four years, of all the Jesuit
students who have been accepted to
UF, more than 100 have enrolled at the
school.
Joshua Cruz '18, also a National Merit
Finalist, is next to Tamashiro wearing
the Georgia Tech t-shirt. Cruz is choosing
between Vanderbilt, Washington
University in St. Louis, and Georgia
Tech. Hyoung Kim '18, who is sporting
the ND sweatshirt, is choosing between
Emory, Florida, and Notre Dame. Kim
Saint Ignatius Scholars.
Nathan Gimness '18, on the far right of
the photo, is another future Ivy League
student. Gimness will enroll at the
University of Pennsylvania this fall.
Many Jesuit seniors are pursuing
outstanding arts programs. Jordan
Scholarship recipient, will enroll in the
esteemed school of music at Belmont
University in Nashville. Josh Reynes '18
Chicago. And Alex Pena '18 will attend
the renowned Savannah College of Art
and Design.
Other seniors such as
(University of Chicago) and Ethan
(Pomona College in California)
had a choice of many highly selective
schools. Mahoney, a standout in speech
and debate and an accomplished stage
performer, chose Chicago (where he
will join Byrne Litschgi '16 and Spencer
Wallace '17) over acceptances to Notre
Dame, Boston College, Virginia, and
Georgetown.
Rodrigues is excited to see so many
options for the seniors, spanning
numerous highly selective schools from
around the country, and is pleased the
school for them.
"Our students are encouraged to pursue
their best options anywhere,'' Rodrigues
college search between academic excellence
and the outside-of-the-classroom
experience. We are working with them
thrive."