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'It’s Like I Won The Lottery!': Area HS Senior Wins $300K Scholarship 'It’s Like I Won The Lottery!': Area HS Senior Wins $300K Scholarship
'It’s Like I Won The Lottery!': Area HS Senior Wins $300K Scholarship A high school senior from the Hudson Valley is being rewarded for her hard work with a more-than $300,000 scholarship to her dream school.  Putnam County resident Franceska Drejaj, a senior at Brewster High School, won the four-year scholarship to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where she is planning on studying government and legal studies, according to an interview released by the Brewster Central School District.  Drejaj won the scholarship through QuestBridge, a nonprofit that helps high-performing low-income students attend leading colleges. She was o…

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by Ben Crnic