by Ryan Devens, Arrowhead editor '06
Second in the senior class, star tennis player, first chair violin, tons of scholarship offers to any school he pleases, and possessing ungodly good looks, Kevin Kuo modestly refuses to admit that he has single-handedly dominated every aspect of the high school experience.
Appearing to be a quiet conforming Asian boy, Kevin is steadily beginning to loosen up as his rigorous high school career comes to a close. Taking full advantage of D-B's AP program, acing every single class and making almost all 5's on his AP tests, his GPA and bank of college credit hours he has earned will surely prove his undying determination to be better than the rest.
Even though Kevin has a 4.8+ GPA average, he will not under any circumstance brag his accomplishments, probably assuming people will strike up enough interest to find out themselves. As the reality of college life peaks around the end, Kevin has decided he is going to refocus himself on the one thing that has made his life worthwhile, music.
Whether he attends Vanderbilt or UT, he plans on excelling in either school's orchestra program. With intensive involvement in the Dobyns-Bennett orchestra all four years, playing violin as first chair each year, he has served his purpose of being the most important asset to the orchestra.
Other than the fact that he eagerly admitted his reason of joining the orchestra, the ladies, he loves taking the responsibility of leading the orchestra as the first violin, which is easily the most important position.
He is simply deemed a leader by his ability to easily guide the rest of the orchestra to play the right way at the right time. Every successful orchestra requires such an individual, and Kevin Kuo fills in this job quite perfectly. Even though most of his valuable time will be saturated with his future plans of becoming a dentist, he will still make time for a college orchestral commitment.
Not only is Kevin extremely intelligent, he is multi-talented and is able to master every single ability the human mind is able to muster. Solving the Rubik's Cube in less than one minute, being able to throw a perfect spiral football, sinking multiple three's in basketball with ease, being bilingual in both Chinese and English, being able to miraculously predict the entire NCAA bracket and almost win a free trip to Cancun for doing so, and once again, last but not least, having heart-stopping handsomeness. Kevin has everything going for him, and there are no signs of him slowing down.
However, aside from his ultra-serious future plans, Kevin feels it necessary to make room for a little humor as well. Abiding by almost all Asian stereotypes, hardworking, having high intelligence, and scoring phenomenal on his SATs, he is determined to convince people he is not a shy guy, but in fact a very outgoing, attention friend.
Getting people to laugh with him has proven to be yet another one of his fortes. He admits that he chose violin as a child because "all Asians play violin" and obviously because "it's easy to hit someone with because of its small size."
Overall, Kevin has immensely enjoyed his high school experience, gathering countless friends on the way because of his carefree, yet focused outlook on life, continuing to teach, learn, and overcome every obstacle in life with ease.