Destrehan student earns full scholarship to top university after creative essay, perfect score on ACT

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Destrehan student earns full scholarship to top university after creative essay, perfect score on ACT

Kaden Kirtland knew it would be hard to get accepted to the University of Chicago. The school’s 5.4 percent acceptance rate puts it on the same list as Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University – U.S. colleges with acceptances rates under 6 percent. But Kaden applied anyway. Now, he has a full scholarship worth $379,884 to the University of Chicago. Kaden learned in January that he earned a QuestBridge scholarship, a needs-bas…