Nigerian teenager, Helen Uwade gets scholarship offers from 11 US Universities

Nigerian teenager, Helen Uwade gets scholarship offers from 11 US Universities

18 year old Uwade Helen Akhere has made history by winning all 11 scholarships she applied for to study in different American Universities, after emer

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18 year old Uwade Helen Akhere has made history by winning all 11 scholarships she applied for to study in different American Universities, after emerging tops in her academic pursuit at the Charlotte Catholic High School.  From Edo State, Helen was the President of the Student Council at the prestigious Charlotte Catholic High School Charlotte NC, USA and so cerebral is she that she constantly came out tops in debates, speeches and Theology, among several other awards.       

Universities wooing her are Cornell University Tanner Dean’s Scholarship, Hampton University Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Howard University Freshman Scholarship, Northwestern University Northwestern Scholarship, Northwestern University ‘The 1851 Scholarship’ and Rice University Trustee Distinguish Scholarship.   

Others include, Tulane University offering her Premier Scholar award, University of Chicago Odyssey Scholar award, University of Chicago Odyssey Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Morrison Scholarship and Villanova University Villanova Scholarship.