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Olivia Quiroga of Berkeley Heights, a senior at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, has received a full scholarship from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dana Goad, Quiroga s school counselor, said, “The Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholarship is a prestigious scholarship, selecting applicants who can bring both intellectual and community leadership to the entire campus community. Approximately 1 percent of freshman applicants are offered the scholarship. Selected applicants have achieved stellar academic records as well as impressive extracurricular activities and essays.”
Goad said, “Olivia is an incredibly well-rounded, intelligent, and thoughtful young woman. She has worked hard for phenomenal academic success and is highly active in numerous extracurricular activities. Among her commitments, Quiroga is president of the future medical leaders club and was selected as the captain of the Rutgers Oncology Olympiad. Quiroga has received numerous
<i>Five students at Shaker High School, New York are finalists in a statewide competition for their report that used World Bank data and machine learning models to assess the impacts of various factors on income inequality.</i>
A team of Ridgewood High School students recently uncovered some unsettling history about their town.
Housing deeds that banned people of color from buying homes. Red-lined maps where government loan agents gave lower rankings to areas with more Black and immigrant residents, dooming [those] areas to disinvestment and low property values. A Ridgewood Code published by the Ridgewood Board of Realtors in 1941 that said its goal was to bring here only the kind of people who are here and thus preserve the congenial neighbor tradition.
The students found these documents while researching a paper on housing inequality that on Thursday was named a regional winner in a competition hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.