Antonia Young has won a $300,000 Robertson Scholarship to Duke University in North Carolina. Photo supplied
Kiwi students have pulled in overseas scholarship offers worth more than $12 million this year, a private tutoring company says.
Crimson Education, which helps students apply to American and British universities, says 64 NZ students have received scholarship offers totalling $12.4m this year, up from $8.7m offered to 38 students
last year.
The figures, all in NZ dollars, include offers from multiple overseas universities to many of the students, so the actual amounts paid out will be much less.
But the individual scholarships are still substantial. Antonia Young, head girl at St Cuthbert's last year, has won a Robertson Scholarship to Duke University in North Carolina worth $300,000.
Young, a New Zealand representative water polo player, had already won another scholarship to Sydney University, but told Crimson she would give it up to go to the US partly because American colleges "have such a great water-polo culture".
