Getrude Makurumidze '16 Featured in NYT Column on 'The Resilient Strivers Who Prove That Brilliance Has No Borders'
Getrude Makurumidze '16, who is now in medical school at Georgetown University, is among the exceptional students profiled by Frank Bruni in his latest New York Times column, The Surprising Path that Some Kids Take to the Ivy League. In the piece, Bruni writes about the work of the nonprofit United Student Achievers Program, "which for two decades has identified disadvantaged high school students of enormous promise in Zimbabwe, coached them through applying to top-notch colleges outside of their country and steered them toward futures they never imagined."
From the article:
"I met one such student, Getrude Makurumidze, last year; by the time she was 9, her mother, father and 6-month-old sister had died from complications related to AIDS. She then bounced among the members of her extended family who could afford at a given moment to keep her. She nonetheless went on to graduate from Bryn Mawr and is now in medical school at Georgetown University."
Read more about Gertrude in this article from the Bryn Mawr website from May 2016.