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GSSM Graduates Celebrate $10.9 Million in Scholarship Dollars

June 18, 2008

This year, 61 seniors from across the state graduated from the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics in Hartsville, earning in excess of $10.9 million in scholarship dollar offerings.

One hundred percent of the graduates will attend college; 100 percent earned Life Scholarships; 93 percent earned Palmetto Fellowships; 26 percent were National Merit Scholars; and eight percent were National Achievement Scholars.

Sixty six percent of GSSM’s Class of 2008 will stay in South Carolina for college this fall. A few of the top colleges attended by recent GSSM graduates include: the University of South Carolina, Clemson, Furman, Harvard, Brown, Duke, University of Virginia, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Georgia Tech, Northwestern and Davidson.

For more information on the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, please contact Jacqulyne Pouncey at the GSSM Foundation.


Class of 2008 graduates on graduation day.
Top row: Sara Berry, Niles Brinton, Christian Buckson.
Bottom row: Jenny Burnett, Lucy Burton-Stephens.