Maria Sophia Castillo Hernandez
Wellesley College
Ask.com High Hopes Scholarship
Maria Sophia will be graduating from the IB Program at BHS and was involved in the AVID college prep program. She has been a peer educator with SHIFT, a teen-led program to educate students about sexual health. She also interned at Children’s Hospital Oakland, where she studied the occurrence of neutropenia in children with Barth Syndrome. Maria Sophia plans to study science and dreams of developing her own surgery clinic for disadvantaged families and perhaps teaching science at the college level. Maria Sophia will be the first in her family to attend college.
