BY Stephanie Hill/The Aiken Standard
An Aiken High School senior recently received some prestigious honors.
Laura Huff was named a National Merit Finalist and a top student in biology for the U.S. by Cambridge.
“To become a semifinalist was based purely on the PSAT score from junior year,” Huff said. “To become a finalist I had to fill out a bunch of information and write a couple of essays and submit it to the website and they selected a finalist from that group.”
For the Cambridge honor, Huff said she took the AS Cambridge biology exam last year and received the top score in the U.S.
“It is something she put a lot of work into,” McBride said. “Laura is actually part of the first cohort graduating in South Carolina with the Cambridge Diploma. Her class is the first class; we’ll probably have about 30 diploma candidates. So for her to take this biology exam, which was probably one of our harder exams, and not only score top for our school, but for the entire nation… It speaks volumes as to what she brought to the table last year when she got that score.”
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