Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Senior has long had eye on medical career
Remains undaunted by difficulty of getting into medical school BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen High School senior Misha Shah aspires to a career in medicine and volunteers her time at JFK Medical Center in Edison. Here, she waits for the next call with Jerry Vanderheyden. For 17-year-old…
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4-year colleges sound off on the admissions process
As more students apply to college, admissions has become cutthroat BY JENNIFER DOME Staff writer High school students spend a lot of time researching colleges — they send away for pamphlets, search the Internet, and go on campus visits. While colleges must do their best to sell themselves to students, students are also faced with…
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Spare time hard to find for multisport athlete
Mary Lynn Skarzenski juggles application process, hectic schedule BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer BY DAN NEWMANStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Woodbridge goalkeeper Mary Lynn Skarzenski has shown her athletic prowess not only in soccer, but in basketball as well, the sport that she hopes to play once she goes to college next fall. It’s around…
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Tight end sees science rather than football in his future
Will head to Penna. for his four years of college BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Having played the game since he was 7, JFK High School senior Anthony Meluso has football down to a science. But off the gridiron, that’s exactly what this 16-year-old is obsessed with. Meluso…
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Teen has designs on art school in NYC
Colonia senior hopes to use talents to succeed in advertising BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff When he’s not playing bass guitar, taking photographs or writing, Tim Davideit, a Colonia High School art student, can usually be found drawing. Tim hopes his skills in that medium will get him…
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Supply and demand driving admissions
In the tradition of the SAT, we ask our readers to answer this multiple-choice question: Trying to summarize your life’s story on a few sheets of paper and distinguish it from a stack of 40,000 others is: A) frightening; B) one of the most important tasks in a teen’s life; C) the act of filling…
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Junior year plays key role in admissions process
Advisers: Goals should be clubs, community service and good grades BY ADAM RIBACK Correspondent BY ADAM RIBACKCorrespondent Adam R iback Marlboro H.S. junior Junior year in high school is the most important year to rack up the points for extracurricular activities, community service and acceptable grades, according to Helene Unger, an educational consultant from Manalapan.…
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Edison resident maintains ‘smear campaign’ sunk open space question
I am a resident of Edison, a current member of the Edison Open Space Committee, and I supported the open space and effort to save the Edison tower referendums that appeared on our local ballots this year. Two week ago, Edison was one of the few towns in New Jersey that failed to pass an…
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Resident urges politician to clean up handbill mess
Recently, residents of Edison Township were disturbed at home by a computerized message sponsored by Anthony Russomanno’s organization, Neighborhoods 1st, to vote no against Edison’s open space referendums. Another tactic they used to promote their agenda was to staple brownish-colored handbills on the utility poles throughout the township. Well, it has been almost three weeks…
