Norwalk's Julia E. Gorman Awarded $2,500 Scholarship from CHET

State Treasurer Denise L. Nappier announced on Monday that 200 Connecticut high school seniors have been selected as recipients of the first annual CHET Advance Scholarship.  

The winner from Norwalk is Julia E. Gorman. Each student will receive a $2,500 grant to help put their college dreams within reach. 

“CHET Advance Scholarship will help these students meet the ever-rising costs of higher education, and allow them to spend less time worrying about how to pay for college and more time focused on getting into college and staying in college,” said Treasurer Nappier, Trustee for the Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET) in a release. 

Winners were randomly selected from a pool of 3,635 applicants that hail from 85 public high schools, 10 parochial high schools and 3 independent high schools in Connecticut.  

Two of the winners are home-schooled students.  Almost half of the towns in Connecticut have at least one winner, and all eight counties are represented among the winners.