Six Boston students get Bill Gates scholarship

BOSTON -- A group of Boston high school students are making the grade.

Those six students are among the 1,000 students nationwide selected for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program.

This represents the largest number of awards received by Boston public school students in just a year.

Recipient Takii Rivers says it is a gift.

"It was actually my dad's birthday, so I really thought about how much of a birthday present I had given him to know that I had gotten the scholarship,” Rivers said.

The scholarship is good through graduation and can be used to pursue a degree in any undergraduate major at the college or university of their choice.

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