Throughout high school, I won the yearly award for English each year, graduated in the top 5% of my class, was awarded for the highest graduating marks, and got full scores in the Advanced Placement English Exam of my final year. Even in high school, I took part-time classes at my local university on English literature and have always been pushing myself academically; in my first year at St Andrews, I achieved firsts and was awarded the Dean’s List. Recently, I have done summer research in literature at the University of Oxford; I also published a literary article this past year in St Andrews’ academic arts journal as well as a literary history article in the university’s history journal.