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HHH Grad Receives $17,600 Scholarship

Brian Springall earns presidential award from SUNY Oswego.

SUNY Oswego has awarded Brian Springall of Dix Hills a $17,600 Presidential Scholarship. The award recognizes past academic achievement and potential for success.

Springall, a 2012 Half Hollow Hills graduate, has reserved a place in the incoming freshman class for the fall semester, which will begin Aug. 27.

Outstanding first-year students entering Oswego are offered $17,600 Presidential Scholarships ($4,400 a year for up to four years).

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First-year students who have completed the strongest academic programs with the highest grade averages and standardized test scores are invited to become Presidential Scholars. Students receiving the $17,600 scholarships have average high school grade averages of 94 and average SAT scores of 1240.

U.S. News named SUNY Oswego among the "Top Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2012, the Princeton Review and USA Today named SUNY Oswego to their 2012 list of 150 "best value" colleges and universities in the nation, and the Princeton Review included Oswego in its 2012 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

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