ANGUS MCKENZIE Kentucky Bound
Angus McKenzie, 2014 Head of the Humanitarian Committee, who received two scholarships to the University of Kentucky, says his role at College helped him win the scholarships.
Angus was awarded the See Blue Scholarship (academic) and the International Student Ambassador Scholarship (leadership/academic/ extra-curricular), each worth $37,000 NZD. Angus actually qualified for a higher scholarship, but is awaiting confirmation of transcript equivalents, ie what NCEA correlates to in the US. The university was keenly interested in the work of the Humanitarian Committee, especially last year’s effort of raising $33,000 for CanTeen from the Big Shave, Year 11 semi- formal and charity collections.
“This role definitely gave me an advantage,” Angus says. “I was the first person from New Zealand to apply. Most of the other applicants were really book-smart, but I came in with something different, as well as having good academic grades.” Angus chose the University of Kentucky, because he had done a student exchange to Nashville in 2013 and made friends in the area.
“I am also a huge follower of college basketball and the
university is big into this sport. Not only that, but the school is celebrating its 150th anniversary and has just spent around $800 million renovating the school, so there is a new stadium, new dormitories, a new business centre and the library is supposed to be as good as the one at Harvard.” Angus will leave at the end of July to study accounting and to do a Master in sports administration.
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