BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Sept. 14 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news release:
When honors student Natalie Strader applied to a geology field program at the University of St Andrews, she got a no. The program director told her she was missing a prerequisite course. Most students would have moved on.
Strader, a senior geological sciences major at Western Kentucky University, did not.
"I was so determined to go," she said. "I emailed back and said, 'What if I take this class and this class next semester?' And she said, 'If you can send me a new transcript, we'll save a spot for you.'"
She took the courses. She sent the transcript. She went to Scotland.
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