15-06-2005

Top-Ranked Pakistani Student Gets US University Invite

via news.bostonherald.com

While most college-bound students reach out to their university of choice, for Nomeeta Zaheer of Malden, the University of Massachusetts came to her – with a hefty cash prize in tow. “I got a call one day, and they told me that since I was the top-ranked student at Bunker Hill Community College, I was going to be the University scholar,” said Zaheer, 20, who immigrated from Pakistan three years ago, and graduated from BHCC last week with a perfect 4.0 grade…