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Bergen County Seniors Announce Fall Plans on Decision Day Video Conference

Bergen County

In a year unlike any in recent history, seniors from the Academy of the Holy Angels revealed their autumn plans by wearing their new college gear to a video conference call.

The AHA Office of Academic and College Counseling arranged the Decision Day session as a safe celebration during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Several seniors said they already know who their roommates will be. A few students noted that their colleges would be hosting virtual orientation sessions. Others reported that their college campuses will be open to students, but classes will be kept small to facilitate social distancing, which curtails the spread of the novel coronavirus.

According to OACC statistics, members of the AHA Class of 2020 have been accepted to 200 top colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Ciara Wacker will travel the farthest, as she will be attending Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.

Notably, the OACC reports that this senior class earned a total of $22.1 million in scholarships in acknowledgment of their achievements in academics, athletics, the arts, and service.

This year’s graduating class logged 20,702 service hours beyond their regular school outreach activities.

The Academy’s graduates have been welcomed into the country’s finest institutions of higher learning for the past 140 years. Many Angels gain early acceptance to their first-choice colleges and universities, proof positive that students continue to reap the benefits of AHA’s rigorous, award-winning STREAM education.

Angels graduate with a morals-based, growth mindset education that permits them to be responsible, life-long learners.

Members of AHA’s Class of 2020 will attend highly-regarded colleges and universities, including (but not limited to) Amherst College, Brown, Colgate, Dartmouth, Emory, Fordham, Georgetown, Hofstra, Ithaca College, Johns Hopkins, Le Moyne, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Pratt Institute, Quinnipiac, Rhode Island School of Design, Seton Hall, Temple, University of Southern California, Villanova, Wake Forest, and Xavier.

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