A Queens student is attending a prestigious university as part of a robust college program for low-income community college students.

Tabia Tarannum, 20, is a Kaplan Leadership Program(KLP) Scholar and a 2025 graduate of LaGuardia Community College. Tarannum began her junior transfer year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this August, pursuing a degree in general biology on a pre-med track.

Additionally, Tarannum was recently named a 2025 recipient of the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship through the Kaplan Educational Foundation and received a full-ride scholarship from her university.

Tarannum is part of the 18th cohort of the Kaplan Educational Foundation’s Kaplan Leadership Program (KLP) . This year’s cohort incl

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