SGR&K Student Worker Featured in April Issue of People Magazine
These kids offered a little song, a little dance–even some Samosas and lucky socks–to try getting into their dream schools. Hey, it beats retaking the SATs
photo by Robbie McClaran 2004
WILLIAM & MARY
Name: Kaitlin Hurley
Get-In Gimmick:
After visiting Virginia’s College of William & Mary last summer, Hurley fell for the school’s track program–mind, body and sole. When she applied, the cross-country runner included her lucky gym socks along with a note saying, “I’ll pick them up on the first day of class.” What did her folks think? “They were a little iffy about it,” says Hurley, who has worn the socks since her Jesuit High School cross-country team scored a state championship her junior year. “She has an odd sense of humor,” says her father, Jim, 51, a Nike manager. Luckily, admissions officers shared it. “It made us laugh,” says head of admissions Karen Cottrell. “We had a lot of conversations about whether she washed them first.” The (mercifully, laundered) socks helped Hurley land a place in this fall’s freshman class–and have even made believers of Mom and Dad. “Now,” says Jim, “they’re twice as lucky.”
