Ocean County College students Ellie Dowek, Laura Garzon Salinas, Anne Nyangaga, Anthony Paris and Sabrina Watts have been named semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, one of the nation’s most prestigious and competitive awards for community college students.

Ocean County College Campus (Courtesy of OCC)

As the college explained, “The scholarship supports high-achieving community college students with financial need by providing up to $55,000 per year to complete a bachelor’s degree at…