<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">25 May 2017</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Dear Mr. Fitzhugh,</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I was luckily accepted to Boston College (Honours), Brown University, Williams College, Columbia University (John Jay Scholar), and University of Oxford. After weeks of careful consideration, <b class="">I finally decided to go to Oxford.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">I want to thank you and <i class="">The Concord Review</i> for the wonderful chance you provided</b>. As a South Korean girl writing in English about 17</span><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><sup class="">th</sup></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and 18</span><span style="line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><sup class="">th</sup></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> century political philosophy, I didn’t fit the eligibility criteria of most institutions which accepted high school students’ research papers. <b class="">Then I came across <i class="">The Concord Review</i>. As soon as I discovered that any high school student could submit a research paper about any topic related to History, I decided to apply</b>. I believed that this was my golden opportunity.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It indeed turned out to be golden for me. <b class="">Until then, I wanted to be a scholar, but, at the same time, I had no idea what becoming a scholar actually meant.</b> I loved to write, but I never had the chance to show my writings to anyone who could objectively assess them without knowing who I am. Thus, writing a 5,000-word research paper and getting it published in an international journal was an invaluable experience for me. <b class="">After months of researching and writing for a single paper, I not only learnt the meaning of being a scholar, but also became more certain about my academic interest. After getting acknowledged solely for my work for the first time, I became more confident about writing and sharing my knowledge. The time and effort I spent writing for <i class="">The Concord Review</i> returned to me as deeper insight into myself.</b></span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">More confidence and improved understanding about myself helped me more than anything during my senior year. I proudly answered that I want to be an academic whenever someone asked my future plans, because I had experienced and grown to like the rigorous process of researching. I enjoyed writing History essays, because I knew what I wanted, valued, and loved: acquiring new knowledge, making it my own, and sharing it with others</b>. I applied to British universities as a <b class="">Philosophy, Politics & Economics</b> major without hesitation. And warnings from friends and family that changing major would be nearly impossible did not scare me, because I became certain that European political philosophy is what I want to study at college while writing “John Adams and the Hobbesian View of Human Nature” for <i class="">The Concord Review</i>. I am unsure whether my college result would have changed if it weren’t for the eight months I spent on my “John Adams” paper. However, one thing I am sure of is that my senior year would have been much more stressful without the experience. </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><b class="">So, thank you for giving me the chance</b> to engage in a world-wide discussion as a scholar. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to better understand myself. <b class="">Thank you for making it accessible to every high school student regardless of gender, race, or nationality.</b> I can imagine how many lives will be changed just like mine was, and I am grateful for that.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Best,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Yeorin An</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">보낸 사람: <a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class="">fitzhugh@tcr.org</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">보낸 날짜: 2017년 5월 25일 목요일 오후 3:51</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">받는 사람: <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><a href="mailto:aar108103@hotmail.com" class="">안 여린</a></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="">===========<div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>