Students win Time Warner scholarships

Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey awarded $30,000 in scholarships at an awards breakfast to 15 New York high school students, three were from Queens.
The ceremony, held on August 8, was hosted by Nancy Grace, television legal analyst of Nancy Grace on &#8220CNN Headline Prime.”
Ruben Rafaelov of Briarwood, Alex Chang of Fresh Meadows, and Jessica Salgado of Glen Oaks received college assistance of $2,000 each. The scholarship winners were chosen from among 498 applicants selected from within Time Warner Cable's service areas in New York City and New Jersey.
Rafaelov, 18, is a graduate of Thomas Edison Vocational and Technical High School and will attend St. John's University pursuing a doctorate in pharmacy. He graduated with a 4.0 grade point average and volunteers for Common Cents' Penny Harvest, an organization which helps homeless people by collecting masses of pennies in city schools.
The ambitious high school graduate has chosen the pharmaceutical field because he likes to have contact with the community and it is a field that he feels is the &#8220portal to all medical treatment options.”
Chang, 17, a graduate of Benjamin Cardozo High School will be a freshman at Harvard University this fall. He knows that his major will be business-related. He says that he was thrilled to receive the scholarship and has mixed emotions about going to college.
&#8220I am very excited to be alone for the first time in my life, responsible for caring for myself,” Chang said. &#8220I am also worried if I will be able to live up to Harvard's expectations. Everyone there is very smart.”
Salgado, 18, of Glen Oaks graduated from Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica Estates. She will attend New York University (NYU) in the fall, as a business major.
&#8220I am very excited to receive the scholarship. &#8220NYU is very expensive, anything I am able to get will be helpful for me and my parents,” Salgado said.
Time Warner has awarded more than $275,000 to local college-bound students, since the inception of the scholarship program in 2000. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of financial need, community involvement and academic performance.
&#8220Education is at the forefront of Time Warner Cable's community investment. We developed the scholarship program exclusively for our customers to assist with costs associated with higher education,” said Harriet Novet, Vice President, Public Affairs, Time Warner Cable of New York & New Jersey.