A 20-year-old student at Yeshiva University’s College of Arts and Sciences for Men is the highest-ranking scholarship recipient among more than 1,000 college seniors who took the New York State Regents medical-dental examination this year.
The student, Harry Krakauer, of Queens, N.Y., who will graduate next June, is also expected to be first in his class, having achieved a three-year grade average of 3.97 out of a possible 4.00.
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