High achievers win 2006 Medeiros Scholarships
14 students will receive full four-year tuition at BU
In between captaining mock trial teams, playing Junior Olympic–level volleyball, and volunteering with a home-repair ministry for low-income families in Appalachia, 14 local students managed to ace their SATs and graduate near the top of their high school classes.
The winners of this year’s Cardinal Medeiros scholarships, all from Boston-area archdiocesan high schools, will receive full four-year scholarships to Boston University. The 14 scholarships, valued at more than $1.8 million, are part of the University’s Medeiros Scholarship Program, which has enrolled 311 scholars at BU since its founding in 1986. The scholarships were presented on May 19 by BU President Robert A. Brown and Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston.
Named for the late Cardinal Humberto Sousa Medeiros, archbishop of Boston from 1970 to 1983, the scholarships were created to supplement the Boston Scholars Program, which offers BU scholarships to high-achieving students in the Boston Public Schools. President Emeritus John Silber proposed that the Board of Trustees name the archdiocesan scholarships for Medeiros after the cardinal’s death.
This year’s scholarship winners have a mean GPA of 3.9 and a mean combined SAT score of 1380 on critical reading and math and 700 on writing. They are all ranked in the top 2 percent of their graduating class, include three valedictorians and one salutatorian, and participate in a variety of activities, ranging from student government to community service.
The winners are Julianne Cargill, of Methuen; Sara Crandall, of Waltham; Erin Doyle, of Melrose; Nicolas Giella, of Milton; Christine E. Griffin, of Pembroke; Jennifer Hagan, of Reading; Ryan Kozul, of Medford; Emily Landry, of Whitman; Anna Rose Lane, of Saugus; Deirdre Manning, of Rockland; Kelly McCarthy, of Tyngsboro; Kim-Loan Nguyen and Trang Vu, of Lowell; and Wendy Wong, of Peabody.
The scholars were selected by a committee of representatives from BU’s Office of Admissions and the Archdiocese of Boston.