With a passion for learning and a drive to succeed, Sloka Gorty has chosen her dream college, New York University, to pursue medicine and Global Liberal Studies as a double major. Gorty is a straight-A senior at Claremont High School (CHS). While balancing six AP classes, she had numerous extracurriculars like competitive dance, speech and debate, track, cross country, the secretary of Rekindle Club, a participant of Every Fifteen Minutes and a Kumon tutor.
Gorty thanks her friends and family for the support she has gotten to help her accomplish many things in her high school career. She chose NYU because of its classes, activities, campus, to meet new people, and the connections she could make in the big city.
“I think [attending NYU] is a great chance to branch out and figure out who I am and what I want to do in the future,” Gorty said.
While Gorty is figuring out who she is in adulthood, she is positively sure about becoming a doctor and going the pre-med route like she has seen in her family since she was younger. “My dad and all his siblings are doctors, and ever since I was young, I was determined to be a doctor [too],” Gorty said.
Gorty has shown colleges this passion through her volunteer work at Pomona Valley Hospital and a job at their cancer center. Through her work, she was able to hear many inspirational stories from workers and patients, which helped her “appreciate the small things in life”. Gorty also chose to double major in Global Liberal Studies because it will offer her more opportunities to branch and figure herself out. Majoring in Global Liberal Studies gives her the special opportunity to study abroad during her third year of college. Gorty is interested in studying abroad in Italy because it has been a place she admired since she was young. For this ambitious student, she wants to travel while keeping her education, which is important to her. She feels Italy will offer her new experiences that will be impactful in her life.
Outside of school, Gorty enjoys spending time with her family and friends, going to the gym and dancing. Even though she no longer does competitive dance, she plans on continuing her dance career in college while doing multiple internships abroad, research and clubs to get to know other students. In the future after college, she plans on going to medical school then residency to be a radiation oncologist or an optometrist.
Even though Sloka Gorty is an ambitious student who accelerated well in her classes, she had to learn from ups and downs and make new opportunities through her losses.
“Take classes that you think you can succeed in rather than taking harder classes that you won’t be able to keep up in,” Gorty said. “Enjoy high school the best you can, because the time does go by really fast.”
