Smart Girl Magic
Before we talk about Sienna Williams being accepted to all of these impressive Ivy League schools, let’s talk about what this future Astronaut has done to get here. She’s the captain of her soccer, baseball, and basketball teams. She interned at NASA. She’s in the National Honor Society, the Math Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, and Science Honor Society. She scored a 1500 on the SAT, and scored a perfect 800 on the math section of the SAT. She maintains a 4.8 weighted GPA. She also works at Papa Johns! Sienna Williams is raised by a single mother, alongside her three other sisters. Sienna has been described as soft-spoken, modest, and quiet. So before we speak about the remaining part of her excellence, it is necessary to point out that the Ivy League aspect is being merely a small part of how truly stellar 18 year old Williams has been as a student, an athlete, and a teenager.
Her name is Sienna Williams, and some of America’s best colleges in the United States, including 12 top schools are vying for her to attend their institutions. Williams attends Clarksburg High School in Clarksburg, Maryland, she’s 18 years old and has a 4.8 GPA. This future Astronaut’s latest dilemma is deciding which school to choose, seeing as though she’s been accepted to every Ivy League college except one.
Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania are all interested in Williams joining their freshman class. MIT, Duke, Maryland and Virginia Tech are also courting Williams. Dartmouth college placed Williams on a waiting list. Because they have the best astrophysics department in the country, Sienna Williams is leaning towards taking her talents to MIT, who has also offered her $250,000 in scholarships.
Her mom, Daphne Smith Williams, is a former math teacher, which explains that perfect 800 SAT score. She is also the head of special education at a middle school in Clarksburg, Maryland. Daphne Smith Williams is also a single mother of Sienna and her three sisters, and says Sienna has always loved learning, and had once told her she would be accepted to every Ivy League school. Her mom believed her.
Williams’ principal, Edward Owusu, is a huge cheerleader for his senior student. On Instagram, he calls what she has #BlackGirlPride, #GirlPride and #ClarksburgCoyotePride, and says he thinks it’s time for the world to see and focus on what young African American women are doing.
What makes Sienna Williams’ story so special is that it’s happening right when rich parents are being exposed for the dishonesty that has taken place within elite universities across the country, and student acceptance. Williams got accepted because of her accomplishments, not because of what’s in anyone’s purse. Sienna hopes to be an inspiration to more young girls, especially her younger sisters; and there is no doubt that she will be. Sienna is the epitome of hard work paying off and we can’t wait to see what she has in store for the world.
Source: WUSA 9
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