Barbe Senior Named 2020 Cooke College Scholar Semifinalist
February 11, 2020
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced the selection of 477 high school seniors as semifinalists for the prestigious Cooke College Scholarship Program. This highly selective scholarship provides high-achieving students with financial need up to $40,000 annually for four years of college, to enable them to attend a top college or university.
Isaac Broussard, a senior at Barbe High School, is a semifinalist for the award. The semifinalists were chosen from a pool of over 5,300 applicants. Approximately 60 semifinalists will be selected to receive the scholarship. The 2020 Cooke College Scholarship recipients will be announced in April.
“These semifinalists represent some of the most passionate, driven, and hard-working students across the country,” said Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Executive Director Seppy Basili. “It is an honor to recognize these semifinalists for their persistence and achievements.”
Broussard is one of only three semifinalists in Louisiana. He has also been accepted and offered a full academic scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Broussard was named a Horatio Alger State Scholar for Louisiana, a National Merit Semi-Finalist, a S.C.S. Noonan Scholar, a Questbridge College Prep Scholar, and is a recipient of the High School Pioneer High School Academics Research Program for research in the field of Coding Theory and Cryptography.
Students applied for the Cooke College Scholarship Program from all 50 states, as well as Washington, DC and Puerto Rico — representing 402 schools. A list of the semifinalists can be found here.
Cooke College Scholars are selected based on exceptional academic ability and achievement, financial need, persistence, service to others and leadership. Students must be current high school seniors residing in the United States. Scholarships are awarded without respect to religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, geographic region, race or ethnicity.
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