It means that universities will be funded for an unlimited number of students with these grades, which is meant to make it easier for talented students to get a place on their first choice course.

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We hope other scholarship programs and institutions will consider betting on these at risk students and provide them with what it takes for them to graduate.

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Even though I had addressed 3, 300 people at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students the night before, it was my interactions with these girls and their affinity for STEM education that impressed me.

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"I think it's amazing what Sheryl McCollum is doing at Bauder College by providing these students with a hands-on opportunity to study a real-life criminal investigation, " Beth Holloway said in a statement to CNN.

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