IN JAMAICA: Top University-Bound Students Promise To Return

Nicole Campbell (left), director of
Aim Educational Services, speaks
 with scholarship winners Christine Jones
 (second left), who attends the
American International School of
 Kingston (AISK); Ana Katrina Donaldson
 (centre), of Campion College; Yannick Eatmon,
 a Wolmer's sixth-former; and Marissa
 Webber from St Andrew High Schoo
l for Girls, during a meeting at
AISK last Friday.-Winston
Sill/Freelance Photographer

With recent reports indicating that Jamaica has the largest contingent of Caribbean nationals studying in the United States, and one of the latest Bill Johnson surveys showing that young, educated Jamaicans are more likely to migrate, it takes little effort to understand why four teenagers would jump at the opportunity to attend some of the best universities abroad.

For Ana Katrina Donaldson, of Campion College; Christine Jones, who attends the American International School of Kingston; Yannick Eatmon, a Wolmer's sixth-former; and Marissa Webber, from St Andrew High School for Girls, getting into four of the top-10 universities in the US have been nothing but a dream come true.

Not only have they managed to get into these highly competitive schools, they have already secured the majority of their fees. more