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As college acceptance letters and scholarship honors begin pouring in, the Tehachapi News elected to salute local high school students with extraordinary scholastic and personal achievements. Valedictorian Alisha Adhikari came to the United States at the age of 7, where she proceeded to live in Ohio, Wisconsin, Maine and Fremont, Calif. before moving to Tehachapi with her father, mother and younger brother. Born in Nepal, Adhikari feels that the driving factor to her academic success has come from her past. “Being born a foreigner, I know I need to keep up with the competition or else the work my parents have done to get me here will be wasted,” she explains. “They have worked to make it possible for me to go to school in a country with public education.” Adhikari has never received a grade lower than an A in her four years at Tehachapi High School, and her straight A record has presented her with the honorable title of valedictorian for the...
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