In September, Sayeeda Rashid, a graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School in Norwood, began her first year at Mount Holyoke College, an all-women’s liberal arts school in South Hadley, Mass. Rashid plans to study medicine and physics.
While at Clinton, Rashid received a host of accolades. She was a member of the National Honor Society, landed on the Academic High Honor Roll, earned the Advanced Placement Scholar Award, and was named the Best Writer of the Borough in a Random House writing contest. Along with being a social studies monitor and library assistant, Rashid was also the editor of her school’s newspaper, on the leadership team of the student government, a member of the Medical Science Club, and participated in the New England Young Writers Conference at Breadloaf while in high school. She is the daughter of Harunur Rashid and Hamida Khanom of the Bronx. —Allison Grande
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