Eighteen-year-old Tetiana Tsunik, who grew up in a tiny village in eastern Ukraine, won a full ride to the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, a well-regarded prep school. There she’s taking two Advanced Placement courses plus six others. She’s part of the debate club, and is editor-in-chief of two student publications. Last summer, she spent two weeks as a reporter at the Kyiv Post, the top English-language newspaper in Ukraine, and wrote five stories.
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Vlad Ivanchuk, a nineteen-year-old from Lutsk, Ukraine, just earned a full scholarship to Harvard after studying at Westminster School in Connecticut as a Ukraine Global Scholar. Here he performs in a school play (Photo: atlanticcouncil.org)
