Remember her?
Melissa Reyes graduated from Prep as Salutatorian in 2021 and went on to Dartmouth College — one of the country’s most prestigious colleges — on scholarship.
This past week, Melissa graduated from Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, with honors — including, yet again, the honor as one of Dartmouth’s Salutatorians with a 3.99 GPA.
At the Ivy League college, Melissa was a Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies major with a concentration in history and a minor in geography. She was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar and served as an intern for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and a leader fellow for More Than Bootstraps, a non-profit helping first-generation low-income high school students with the college application process in and around Passaic.
Melissa said Prep gave her the foundation to continue her successful academic career.
“As a proud Prep alumna, I’m so thankful for the foundation Prep gave me,” she said via email. “I was able to explore legal studies and journalism, two fields that helped me find my voice and develop a passion for advocacy and storytelling. That same spirit carried through at Dartmouth, where I dove into everything from reading dense theory to learning how to code and make maps. Prep gave me the confidence to be curious and take on challenges across disciplines.”
This summer, Melissa will intern at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York through the Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship College Division Program while also studying for the LSAT. She will then take on a post-graduate project with Mi Casa es Puebla Inc., thanks to a $30,000 Richard D. Lombard ’53 Public Service Fellowship from Dartmouth. Melissa will be creating legal education resources and helping build community programming for immigrants.
Congratulations, Melissa! Prep is proud.
Here’s a link to the article on Dartmouth’s top graduating students that includes Melissa.
