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Byline: Sandy Alexander
May 23--After Flavia Oleniewski completed her associate's degree program at Howard Community College, she said didn't apply to transfer to any bachelor's degree programs "because I didn't have any money."
Then, two weeks ago, she found out she had earned the national Jack Kent Cooke scholarship for transfer students, which will pay full tuition, books and living expenses for her to attend the four-year school of her choice.
Oleniewski, 30, who had deferred her college education for a decade for family and financial reasons, quickly made arrangements to attend the University of Baltimore to study corporate communications.
"I'm still in shock," she said. "I'm really excited. Everything has kind of fit together."
A mixture of students who started straight out of high school and those who took nontraditional educational paths were among the 561 graduates who collected their…
Source: HighBeam Research, HCC: A steppingstone to a better life: More than 550 graduates...