Alabama teen accepted to more than 15 schools with $2 million in scholarships
Subject
Rotimi Kukoyi; Scholarships; Alabama
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Alabama teen Rotimi Kukoyi was accepted to more than 15 universities to tally a total of $2 million in scholarship offers. Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins were among the top universities Kukoyi had to choose from, but he ultimately went with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue a career in public health. He was awarded UNC’s prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship, the oldest merit scholarship program in the country.
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Scott Gleeson USA TODAY
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usatoday.com
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