FROM THE DESK OF

JULIANA CARNEVALE

January 21, 2013

Juliana Carnevale
M.D.
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing this letter in support of Frances Coronel.

Frances participated in a very brief 2 week internship with me at the hospital in the
summer of her 9th grade year but otherwise I have known her through my experiences with her
family and her.

To sum Frances out, I have always thought of her as a charismatic, intellectual, aware,
and evenhanded lady.

Frances has the capability to adapt to any situation and will hold the best of responsibility
for even the smallest of tasks. She is extremely mature for her age, and will never let anybody
lower her self-esteem. She loves herself and with that lets others love her company. People never
feel uncomfortable around her and do not hesitate to ask her questions. This I think is because of
her complete openness to anybody. She has a very wide cultural view of the world. With her balanced logic, openness, eagerness, and responsibility, Frances would make a great addition to any
program.

On an academic level, Frances has already tackled intellectual challenges. At the age of
10 she took her first high school class of Algebra I and received an A. At the age of 13 she took
her first college course at a local community college and then later would take her first AP course.
At 15 years old, she took her first university course of General Zoology which was full of college
sophomores and juniors. Yet, she has never had a problem blending in. The college students, apparently, would be shocked if she told them she wasn't in college already. Recently, she participated in Boston Universitys School For Field Studies program in Tanzania where she studied
wildlife techniques for research. All the kids there were in college while she was only 16 years old,
the youngest student there. So shes very used to being with older people.

Her maturity is above the top. Her parents enrolled her in school early and at such an
early age, many teachers doubted she could be at the same level. Her first year at elementary
school, she was able to prove them wrong. Her parents supported her though it, she worked
harder, read more, and ended up on the Honor Roll for her first grade class. In her younger years,
she was seen as a leader and all the older kids knew that if nobody else had the right answer, she
would. She grew to love this role and would always try to help out others, even if it meant not
helping out her self out first. To this day, she remains generous and worthy of leadership.

Cooperating with people extremely different from her was never a problem. Inferiority
was always such a "disgusting" idea for her. She has always kept an open mind of people, regardless of their extreme cultural religious practices as she witnessed in France once, with a girl she
met that she found out had suffered through female genital mutilation at the early age of 10.

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JULIANA CARNEVALE
Frances though, in the end, did not think of her any less and accepted the truth of the whole
situation. I feel, through this experience, Frances has the profound ability to cooperate with others
enough to be able to really understand them.

Frances is highly prepared academically. Last summer, she took a sophomore level course
in Zoology at Hampton University, a leading African-American university in the United States.
She excelled, scoring an A- in a class with college sophomores and juniors as a rising high school
junior not yet 16.

During weekends and during parts of the summer, she volunteers for Operation Smile
which is an international nonprofit organization that focuses on helping children that have cleft
palates and need surgery. She was the only student in the Norfolk Public School system, which has
over 35,000 students, to be selected to attend the International Student Cultural Exchange conference in Beijing China during August 2011 and currently serves as the Co-President at her high
school club for Operation Smile. She is extremely goal oriented with this organization and recently took part in Mission Training 2012 for Operation Smile which took place in January of
which afterwards she was assigned a mission in Vietnam where she will have the responsibility as a
Student Team member to educate children and parents waiting for surgery with several teaching
modules, like burn care/prevention, oral rehydration therapy, dental hygiene and nutrition, so as
to inform local populations abroad of basic health care that will improve lives of their children
and parents themselves.

Frances is extremely analytical and is classified as a gifted student; however, she is a hands
on person who can easily adapt to any environment whether its extremely rich or extremely poor.
She has resided in the poor mountains of Piura, Peru and the rural parts of my home country the
Dominican Republic and the rural area of San Juan del Llanito, Guanajuato, Mexico. She has
been to the most exclusive sections of Manhattan, New York; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Westchester,
California; Boca Raton, Florida; Toronto, Canada; and Shanghai, China.

She is extremely creative though her video editing, as she is already working with programs such as Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, iMovie, Keynote, Photoshop, and Final Cut
Pro X to create beautiful videos presenting her academic work. She is well known in school for
making great videos and I myself have been impressed with the results. For these reasons, it was
no surprise to discover that she was chosen as the iMovie Creative Specialist for the Operation
Smile Mission Training in January 2012. She had the responsibility of teaching 75 college and
high students on how to use iMovie to more effectively spread how their own international mission went. As for her writing, I have read a variety of her many research papers and she has always shown depth with a complete understanding of material while rarely giving a completely
biased view. Topics I have read about include box jellyfish, the Jesus Christ bloodline, Cocaine on
a Chemical and Global Level, a Enders Game (Geek Paradise) book review, a essay in Spanish on
Poverty among Children, and a paper on texting effects on social interaction.
With this in mind, please feel free to contact me for any comments, concerns.

Juliana Carnevale

194 Marshall Avenue. Norfolk, VA 23503

juliana.carnevale@verizon.net