Princeton Graduate Sortino ’03 Wins Richest Scholarship in America

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<p>Kelly Sortino ’03 was one of this year’s 77 winners (from a pool of 1,100 nominees) of the richest major scholarship in the U.S. The Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship provides recent college graduates of exceptional academic promise with up to $300,000.00 each to support their subsequent graduate educations and has a particular focus on students with financial need.</p>

<p>This year, the Ivy League was represented by Sortino from Princeton and Melissa Sum from Columbia. Bachelor degree recipients from the Ivy League have not done particularly well in this competition over the years. The totals are as follows:</p>

<p>6 – Yale
5 – Brown
4 – Princeton
2 – Columbia
2 – Dartmouth
2 – Harvard
1 – Cornell
1 – U. of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>Scholars from a great many American universities have won the award. Some of the schools with the greatest number of scholars are:</p>

<p>15 – U. of Maryland
11 – U. of Virginia
10 – Georgetown
10 – Johns Hopkins</p>

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<p>SHE'S IN MY DANCE COMPANY!! And let me tell you, this woman does it all: she's an award-winning choreographer, worked on the admissions staff following graduation, and is now headed to Stanford for business school. She's been around to help diSiac for the last few years, and while I honestly don't know what it's going to be like without her around to choreograph one of her amazing social-commentary pieces, she's going to go on to great things at Stanford and beyond.</p>

<p>Congrats, Kelly!</p>