NATALIE is a freshman in the Huntsman Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is pursuing a dual degree in quantitative finance from Wharton and Russian and Eastern European Studies at the School of Arts and Sciences. At Penn, Natalie is a proud member of the Intercollegiate Model United Nations Team and the Director of Operations for the University of Pennsylvania Model United Nations Conference. Natalie is also on the external committee of the Wharton Undergraduate Finance and Technology Group, where she helped organize a “trek” to meet with executives of various fintech companies and works on sponsor outreach. Natalie is a Russian tutor at the Penn Language Center, though in addition to speaking Russian and English fluently, she also speaks Spanish. Last summer, Natalie interned at BlackRock on the Fixed Income Investments team, crediting her internship opportunity to the various financial literacy programs catered toward public school students, and she is currently on the board of Rock the Street, Wall Street’s Alumni Council where she will use her experience to build on the program for other young women interested in finance. Natalie is an alumna of Hunter College High School, where she maintained an A average. Natalie is a National Merit Scholarship Finalist who scored a 1510/1520 on her PSAT. Natalie also scored a 1540/1600 on the SAT and a 35/36 on the ACT, in addition to self-studying for the A.P. U.S. History exam and the A.P. English Language Exam, scoring 5/5 on both tests. Natalie took A.P. B.C. Calculus (4), A.P. Microeconomics (5), A.P. Macroeconomics (5), A.P. Spanish (4), and A.P. Statistics (4). At Hunter, Natalie headed the Lincoln-Douglas debate team, was the captain of the Girl’s Varsity Tennis Team and led her team to the PSAL Championships, an executive member of the Class of 2022’s student government organization since seventh grade, the columnist of the school newspaper What’s What, and co-president of Girls Govern HCHS (a feminist history and outreach club).
Natalie is a longtime tutor and student at Kweller Prep. Natalie joined Kweller Prep at the start of the sixth grade to prepare for the Hunter College High School Exam and the Baccalaureate School of Global Education. After hours of self-study and months of spring, summer, and fall classes at Kweller Prep, Natalie succeeded in gaining entry to both these prestigious schools. She ultimately chose Hunter (HCHS) for its distinct reputation. Natalie also sacrificed two summers preparing for the PSAT, SAT, and ACT in-person at Kweller Prep on evenings, four nights a week, four hours each day for seven weeks throughout the summer, twice! Natalie excelled throughout high school and used her knowledge to help future students at Kweller learn about competitive high school admissions. When not at Kweller Prep, Natalie enjoys blogging, watching runway shows, and house remodeling shows.