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Watson is well on her way
March 19, 2003
CARROLLTON, GA - How hard is it to score a perfect 800 on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)? Apparently it wasn’t too hard for Sarah Frances Watson, a life-long resident of Savannah. In fact, her SAT math score was not far behind her perfect verbal score when she took the SAT in her tenth grade.
Watson
is well on her way to becoming the international corporate lawyer she
plans to be one day. Her philosophy is simple: to be among the best in
everything she does. And as she says, “It takes more than hard work;
it takes more than sheer intelligence.”
She is the kind of student who competes with herself, and when she found herself looking for a greater challenge, she entered the Advanced Academy of Georgia, an early-entrance-to-college program located at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton.
The Advanced Academy is a fulltime, residential program that allows highly able high school juniors and seniors to accelerate their academic careers by taking college classes while living in a supervised environment in the University’s Honors College residence hall.
In this way, when Watson graduates from high school, she will have earned enough credits at West Georgia to be classified as a University sophomore.
Since entering the Academy Watson has maintained the perfect 4.0 grade point average that she began in high school. She has been active in the Academy Judicial Board, Residence Hall Council, and Community Builders and has this to say about her Academy experience: “Coming to the Academy was, without a doubt, the best choice I could have made. The Academy offers an environment for bright students to have an extraordinary chance to stretch themselves and grow intellectually, socially, culturally, and personally, while giving them challenges to reach for that they are denied at high school. I am loving my time in the Academy and can not think of a more ideal combination of the sheer joy of truly learning and the joy of living.”
For more information concerning the Advanced Academy of Georgia, call 770-836-4449 or visit on the web at www.academy@westga.edu.
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