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T.C.’s Wilmer Carranza Wins $250,000 Scholarship, Sets Eyes on Future

Published February 7, 2020 at 3:30PM | Updated February 7, 2020 at 9:31PM

Wilmer Carranza hardly spoke a word of English when he moved back to Alexandria from El Salvador in 2009. Now the 17-year-old senior at T.C. Williams High School has a 3.999 grade point average, is a student representative on the Alexandria School Board and recently received a $250,000 scholarship to attend Lafayette College in northern Pennsylvania.

Carranza is the first member of his family to go to college and credits his success to his mother, friends and the Alexandria public school system.

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