NORRISTOWN – Alex Rojas-Romero closed one chapter as the Norristown Area High School valedictorian and has opened another at the University of Pennsylvania.

The 18-year-old Norristown native and freshman at Penn has expressed interest in economics and mathematics as he begins his college career in the hallowed halls of the Ivy League within Philadelphia’s University City neighborhood.

“I can kind of take everything I’ve learned from high school, apply it to college, drop everything that I didn’t like in high school, start over, and it’s been fun so far,” Rojas-Romero said in a recent interview.

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Rojas-Romero was among 561 seniors in the Norristown Area High School Class of 2025. When asked how

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