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Fountain Valley Students Named Gates Scholars
Kathy Tran and Montserrat Reyes were selected out of 54,000 applicants to receive the coveted Gates Millennium Scholarships.
Two Fountain Valley high school seniors were one of 12 Orange County students recently selected for a 2013 Gates Millennium Scholarship, a school district official announced Monday.
Los Amigos High School students Kathy Tran and Montserrat Reyes are among only 1,000 12th graders from across the country chosen from more than 54,000 applicants for a Gates Millenium Scholarship.
Alan Trudell, spokesman for the Garden Grove Unified School District, said the scholarships will pay for their undergraduate and graduate college expenses debt free, including all tuition, fees, textbooks, supplies and housing.
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"With their new scholarships the seniors can focus on their challenging college studies without the worry of the formidable costs of attending a prestigious university," Trudell said in a released statement.
After graduation Tran, who also received a Disneyland Resort Scholarship in April, plans to study political science at UC Berkeley or UCLA. Reyes also plans to study political science at UC Irvine.
The scholarship program was initially funded in 1999 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for “highly motivated, low-income minority students.”
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Scholarship candidates are nominated by educators and must have at least a 3.3 grade-point average, meet federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria and have demonstrated leadership through community service or other extracurricular activities.
Get more information on the Gates Millennium Scholarships at gmsp.org/.
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