Victoria Tran, Honorable Mention, Higher Ed-East & Central

About Victoria Tran:  I am a second-year student at Drexel University majoring in psychology with a minor in political science. I hope to go down the route of clinical psychology. My interest in political science started in my Advanced Placement American Government class in high school.

Judges' statement

Victoria’s 11th District was a distinctive but very logical way of handling the typically thorny problem of the Philly suburbs.  She did a very strong job of pursuing her goal of population equivalency while producing a map that comes across as logical and pleasing to the eye.

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Personal statement

The three things that I thought about most while drawing district lines were compactness, contiguity and equal population. I did not want this to be about politics. I didn't want Republicans to win districts that they shouldn't and the same for Democrats. 

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