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Highland Hall Waldorf School's Adam Adorney - 2014 National Merit Scholarship Commended Student

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Highland Hall Waldorf School, class of 2014, Adam Adorney discusses becoming a "Commended Student" by the National Merit Scholarship Association and his experience at Highland Hall Waldorf School.

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I was named the commended students by the National Merit Scholarship program for the year of 2014 is one of the ways that the curriculum prepared me most for these kinds of tests or to perform a anything he's reading because we've over the course of our years we read so many really cool books and even before we can read we're hearing these stories and all of these these Awards and language really kind of kind of seeps into us and we just had it so you don't see us going and memorizing 2500 vocabulary words as an edited SAT prep class or something we just will have these this knowledge and experience of language that we had forever we don't know we don't know life without it and then also in Matt I mean from the from the beginning we've been like in first grade when we learn arithmetic Storytown even though I'm really sort of focused on the humanities and Performing Arts 5 really really been able to to to spans my interests into things that I might not ever pursue in any kind of way live had such a great time in the last three and a half years play the German program and it allowed me to study abroad also Sciences I've been able to learn about Dwayne who's working stuff in and I've learned such a cool things that I made I personally may never pursue them ever but I have them I have off I learned about it I would like government I've learned about economics I've learned about a little bit about political science physics biology bought me all of these things and I can go into that I can go whatever I do I can go into that with all of these things as references even if from the outside they might appear to directly apply I can have I can have all of these things all these things in my background and it's it's really it's really cool it's been past absorb all of these things and do tests or do assignments without needing to take like a regimen of learning and memorizing things and we can just even something we don't know we're just so used to absorbing all of these different things that we can just go look things that I have to do or things that I have to learn and we just kind of there and we deal with it I think that if it doesn't it doesn't we are we don't have her head stuffed with the knowledge that you know way to like the person Johnny's Test but we're developed in a way that were able to succeed in these tests I'd like meaning to go into I need to be etre in actor but there's so many possibilities have to leave leave leave my life open

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