Priscille Schettini is a $1,000 Blum Scholarship winner.
Schettini 18, graduated in May from Park Vista Community High School.
She will attend Duke University in the fall and plans to major in psychology with a pre-medicine emphasis at Duke University.
Her high school GPA was a 4.0 and she finished fourth in her class.
Her favorite activities are volunteering with her friends.
Her hero growing up was her mother Nadia, who came over from Haiti.
She volunteered at Bethesda Memorial Hospital, where her mother works, in 2007 in the pediatric department.
She said she loved to feed the newborn babies in the department.
Schettini was a member of Key Club and National Honor Society.

Q: How will the $1,000 scholarship help you at Duke?
A: It will definitely help with the economy today. Private school is so expensive these days.

Q: What are your plans for college?
A:I am going into it to study psychology with a pre-medical emphasis, but I am keeping my options open just in case.

Q: Why do you want to study psychology?
A: I took AP psychology in high school and fell in love with studying the mind.

Q: When you volunteered at Bethesda, what was your favorite part?
A: I remember one instance. I got to feed a newborn baby and see its little face smile.

Q: Are you excited to get out of Boynton and off to North Carolina?
A: I am excited but also sad because my mom is my best friend.”

Q: Why did you choose Duke?
A: I went to see the campus and fell in love. It was the first time I had been to North Carolina.