Four University seniors — Matthew Frazier, Abbie Liel, Courtney Mills and Lillian Pierce — were awarded the prestigious Marshall Scholarship yesterday, making Princeton one of the big winners of the post-graduate fellowship competition this year.
The Marshall Scholarship, given to 40 American college seniors each year, was instituted in 1953 to allow winners to study at a British university. It covers two years of study in any subject.
Mills, a politics major, said she was delighted to receive the scholarship. "I'm going to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland to study International Security and Central Asia," she said. "My interview was great. I'm really good friends with two of the other winners, too, so we're all really psyched at heading over together."
Pierce said she was also "very excited." She plans to use the scholarship to pursue a masters of science in mathematics and to study computer science at Oxford.
But first Pierce will study at Cambridge in "very hard math courses" and then take the Tripos exam. "It's very famous," she said, noting that only 100 applicants are accepted for the program.
Liel, a civil engineering major, said she will use the scholarship to go to the University College of London, where she will study civil engineering for one year and building and urban design for another year.
"I was really surprised," Liel said.
Frazier said he will pursue a second undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics, where he will study philosophy and economics.
"Everyone was rather shocked," he said about notifying his friends and family of his award. He called it "a victory for the small man."
The Marshall Scholarship winners got together at Sally Lunn's on Nassau Street last night for a little celebration of their achievements.
"It was Courtney's idea," Frazier said. "We got a little British culture into us."
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