Top schools eager to sign up Oxnard student
Jason Redmond / Star staff Oxnard 4/18/07: Pacifica High senior Sylvia Puglisi plays flute during symphonic band practice at school in Oxnard on Wednesday. MIT, Cal Tech, Columbia, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Amherst, Boston University are just some of the schools interested in her. Puglisi says she plans to major in physics.
At 17, Sylvia Puglisi wanted to have options.
She started filling out college applications last summer. When she finished that first wave, the Pacifica High School senior started again.
"More than 10, less than 20," she offered as the final count. Included in the pile was an application to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, a dream school for the future physics major.
The research university, known for its Nobel Prize winners, accepted just 13 percent of applicants this year, and physics typically is a male-dominated field.
"I thought it was the longest of long shots," said Sylvia, who scored 2,250 out of a possible 2,400 on the SAT and took six Advanced Placement classes her senior year.
Faculty and staff members at Oxnard's Pacifica were much more confident that MIT would accept their star student.
"We knew," Assistant Principal Bijou Beltran said. And once she got in, Beltran added, Sylvia would become the first Pacifica student at the prestigious East Coast school......
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