Long Beach : Poly High Scholar Wins Business Career Contest

George Kim, a senior at Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, already is a man of many accomplishments. He is an expert in Korean martial arts, a three-year varsity tennis player, an award-winning speaker, a geometry tutor, a volunteer landscaper of the Sarah Center for battered and abused women, a summer computer operator for the Queen Mary and a talented violinist and concertmaster with Poly’s award-winning symphony orchestra.

And his resume just got longer. Kim recently walked away with $10,000, the first prize in a business career development contest sponsored by Executive Women International. He won with the aid of a videotaped interview, conducted by a local contest judge, and a notebook he compiled detailing his various accomplishments.

The straight-A student hopes his next stop will be one of four universities: Harvard, Yale, Stanford or UC Berkeley, where he wants to become an economics and pre-law student. His goals include earning a law degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and later a master’s degree in business administration from one of this country’s top business schools. Kim acknowledges his goals are high: “Ambitious? Yes. Impossible? No.”