Hemet High School senior Doris Conner receives prestigious scholarship opportunity. Valley News/Courtesy photo
When Doris Conner applied for a QuestBridge National College Match Scholarship she didn’t know where it would take her or even if she would be accepted. The nonprofit program connects the nation’s most exceptional high school seniors from low-income backgrounds with full four-year scholarships to 48 of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education. Only about one-third of this year’s more than 17,900 applicants were selected as finalists and only 10% were accepted as Match Scholarship recipients.Doris was notified on Dec. 1 that she is one of 20 students that was matched with Washington and Lee University in Virginia. She said the financial aid package depends on the school a student is matched with but generally includes housing, meals, tuition, personal expenses, trav
