Sun Valley student wins scholarships to top universities across the country

This fall, Justin Rendon will board a flight bound for Northwestern University, thousands of miles from home, becoming the first in his family, and the first in recent memory at his school, to attend college out of state. He’s heading there on a scholarship that covers nearly all expenses, with plans to study neuroscience and one day become a neurosurgeon.

At Valley Oaks Center for Enriched Studies in Sun Valley, where Rendon is student body president, university banners from Harvard, Cornell...