Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 11:41 PM
To: mahbubkhan@ieee.org
Subject: [chottala.com] Jamal Accepted at Harvard Law School [1 Attachment]
Dear Friends,
We are profoundly humbled that our son Jamal has received an admission offer from Harvard Law School for JD (Doctor of Jurisprudence) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Jamal is the third of our four children (Madhury, Kamal, Jamal and Monika).
We are very grateful to Allah (swa) for this monumental gift for Jamal, for our family, for our friends, and for our community. We are also very thankful to those of our family members, extended family members, friends and community members, who have encouraged Jamal and helped Jamal in various ways, over the years, to attain this goal, which has been a dream of Jamal since childhood.
Harvard wrote to Jamal in the offer letter as follows:
We are thrilled to welcome you to this incredible institution! We believe that this is the single best place in the world to study law……..
Jamal released this information last month during the Eid/Thanksgiving weekend in San Jose, California, to his immediate family members, with his elder sister Madhury on speakerphone from New York. This news resulted in an outburst of strong emotions and joy. This also resulted in an instantaneous group hug to Jamal from his family members, which transformed into tears of happiness. The next morning, Madhury sent text message to Jamal from New York: "I couldn’t sleep last night cuz I was so excited!" She was very happy for her baby brother.
Jamal is now waiting for responses from other schools he applied to. However, Harvard seems to be Jamal’s first choice at this time.
We have no end of gratefulness and thankfulness for this grand gift in our lives.
Jamal was identified as a GATE student early on, like all of his siblings. (GATE = Gifted And Talented Education).
Jamal was the high school Valedictorian, while his siblings were also Valedictorian in all or most of the schools.
Jamal also received the Presidential Award from the US-President, like all of his siblings.
Jamal graduated as the Valedictorian of his High School. He achieved Junior Standing (3rd year equivalent) by the end of his first semester at UC-Berkeley, because of AP course credit and community college courses he took during his High School years. In four years, Jamal finished the Majors in Economics, Political Science, and Rhetoric, and a Minor in Global Poverty and Practice. He graduated from Berkeley with High Honors in Economics and High Distinction in General Scholarship.
Jamal earned several distinct Awards, Honors, and Scholarships. He received the national Robert C. Byrd Scholarship, and also the Berkeley CalBears Scholarship. He was invited for membership into the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society. During his Junior year, Jamal was selected by the Berkeley Political Science Department to receive the Travers Scholarship in Politics and Ethics. This Award is "intended to give recognition and encouragement to outstanding undergraduate students who plan to serve their country or community in an elected or non-elected government capacity sometime in the future." He took a Graduate Level course in Political Science during his Senior Year. For his Senior Honors Thesis in Economics, Jamal did statistical analysis of Government data to look at American immigrant assimilation trends.
1) Intern for Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, CA. (A photograph of Jamal with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is attached here).
2) Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme (TISES) Fellow in Gujarat, India. Worked for 8 weeks with farmers in rural village of India in a Community Development Partnership between UC-Berkeley, Cambridge University, and Tata International.
3) Intern for nonprofit organization MAPLight.org in Berkeley, CA. Looked at connections between big campaign donations and specific votes in Congress.
4) Intern for Law Practice in San Francisco
5) Assistant for the Disabled Students Program at UC Berkeley
6) Research Assistant for a Rhetoric Professor
Jamal’s LSAT Score was in the 99th Percentile nationwide. (LSAT - Law School Admission Test). Previously in high school, he scored perfect 800 on the SAT Verbal and SAT II Writing Exams for Undergraduate Admission. (SAT = Scholastic Aptitude Test).
Jamal memorized the 30th Parah of the holy Qur’an, and with the blessings of Allah (swt) is able to recite with beautiful Tajweed.
Jamal is very modest, and he clearly displays, even at this young age, that he is a scholar and an intellectual. He is a delight of our family. Jamal is happy, jolly, kind, thoughtful, humble, and he is very respectful to others. When our four kids meet and they get into intense and happy conversations, Reena and I get no chance to speak, but to watch their jubilance with all of our happiness.
Once again, we have no end of thankfulness for this grand gift in our lives.
Please pray for Jamal.
With best regards,
Reena and Mahbub Khan
Madhury, Kamal, Monika
San-Jose/Los-Angeles, California, New York, USA
408-859-3566, 408-942-0256,
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