KnoxNews-Dec2021

big university there are a lot of different
people and you have to be able to
differentiate who is right for you.
to think, as in, here are some options
and theories, and you get to pick what
aligns with you best.
do matter, but it all came down to
whether you wrote your personal
profile well enough.
Did you find that John Knox was too
small? What difference did a smaller
school make?
JKCS doesn’t have a specific
denomination and that has been very
beneficial to us. Some other Christians
on campus have a narrower mindset.
Mr. (Juergen) Rose (retired senior
sciences Christian studies teacher)
and Mr. (Adam) Wasik (principal and
senior sciences teacher) were very
open. And I don’t mean in a progressive
way, like they were pushing a left or
right agenda. They just encouraged you
In high school, what did you learn
was most important when applying
to universities?
What really matters is the way
you write your personal profile.
The number of workshops we
had on writing your profile and
putting together our cornerstone
presentations, and the amount of
editing and peer editing we did
is what made all the difference.
I didn’t even include all of my
extracurriculars, they didn’t seem to
matter as much as I thought. Grades
What’s next for you?
I’m applying to go on an exchange
program for my third year, to the
Philippines, Spain or France. I’d like to
go back to the Philippines and learn
more of my language.
Photos:
Kristine with the Filipino Club at UBC (top left),
Kristine with friends at UBC (top right), Kristine’s
kindergarten class photo at John Knox Christian
School (bottom)