Moroccan-Spanish Student Tops University Entrance Exam in Ceuta with 13.9 Score

Of Spanish father of Moroccan origin and mother from Granada, Sara grew up in Tétouan, Morocco. She started ESO (Secondary) after her parents, both physics-chemistry teachers in high school, moved to Ceuta. The young woman did her secondary studies at Siete Colinas, a public institute in the autonomous city, and has just brilliantly passed her university access test (Selectividad) by obtaining the best score of 13.925. "Honestly, I didn’t expect to have the best score in Ceuta. It was a surprise. I would be lying if I said I didn’t study. I knew it was a turning point in my life," she confides to Nius.

After obtaining her baccalaureate in science, technology specialty, Sara wishes to study computer engineering at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid. "It’s the degree that best matches my passion and ambitions," says the young woman, specifying that she does not want to spend all her time studying. "I’m not ready to sacrifice myself just to study, I want to be more versatile, carry out my own projects. And for that, I need time."

Sara is fluent in Spanish, Darija, English and French. With her parents, she says she "almost always" speaks Spanish, with occasional Darija expressions. The young woman wants to travel and "discover the world." "Being the daughter of parents of different faiths, Muslim and Catholic, has made me see beyond a single religion... My parents have succeeded, they have shared the same vision of the world and the same values. At home, there can be a photo of the Virgin of Miracles and next to it a verse from the Quran and there has never been a problem."