Bishop McNamara senior Kow Simpson heading to Harvard

Kow Simpson, a member of the class of 2022 at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland, will be attending Harvard University this fall.

Heather Nadolny, the director of development and communications at Bishop McNamara, and Herman Frazier, Simpson’s counselor at the school, listed a few of his accomplishments that got him into Harvard – he ran on McNamara’s track team, played cornet in the wind ensemble, took advanced classes (his favorite is math), received a top 1% SAT score, and is in the top 5% of his grade.

“Kow is very humble, and it’s not fake humble, he’s literally really humble, he doesn’t want to tell people things (about himself),” Frazier said.

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