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St Mary's Kevin McCarthy headed to Harvard
| navy dopamine | 04/14/10 |
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Date: April 14th, 2010 8:28 PM Author: navy dopamine St. Mary's Kevin McCarthy heading to Harvard
By Joyce Erekson / The Daily Item
Kevin McCarthy isn't a clock-watcher when it comes to high school tennis practice, but he was last Thursday.
When 5:30 p.m. rolled around, the only place he wanted to be was home in front of his computer. Who could blame him? He had set his sights on getting into Harvard University when he was a junior and he knew there would be an email waiting for him when he got home letting him know whether he would be exchanging the St. Mary's blue and gold for Crimson.
"I wasn't kind of at practice thinking I have a Harvard decision waiting for me on my computer," he said.
When he clicked on the email and read the first line saying Harvard was "delighted" to offer him a spot in the Class of 2014, he was ecstatic.
"I went crazy. I was so excited. It's been a dream of mine to go there for the longest time. I've been working hard my whole life to get there," McCarthy said.
The soon-to-be St. Mary's graduate said he knew it was a great school, but once he visited there a couple of times, he knew it was also the right place for him. "I knew it was somewhere I could thrive as a person," McCarthy said.
McCarthy had decided early on in the college search process that he wanted to remain in the area and that he preferred a city environment. He applied to Tufts, BU, Northeastern, MIT and UMass-Lowell in addition to Harvard.
"I can be at home in Boston, but also be away from home," he said.
Had he not been accepted to Harvard, McCarthy said he was prepared to go to BU. "I couldn't pass up Harvard. That's something I would regret the rest of my life," McCarthy said. |