WESTERN BUREAU — Dorrell McCalman, deputy head boy of Cornwall College and former junior mayor of Montego Bay, has received a US$35,000 scholarship to attend the prestigious Yale University in the United States.

He is to begin four years of pre-med courses at the university in September.

McCalman received a score of 1,350 out of 1,600 in his SAT 1 exams which test students’ ability to reason; and 2,110 out of a possible 2,400 on his SAT 2. For the second exam, which tests students’ in various subject matters, he received a perfect score for chemistry.

“I feel pretty good,” said the 18 year-old McCalman. “I didn’t really expect to get it because the competition was so stiff.”

Nathan Robb, chairman of Cornwall College, was very pleased about the young boy’s achievements though he put it in the greater context of Cornwall College’s achievements over the years.

“His achievement is one of several,” Robb said. “I would not like to put him head or shoulders above everyone else.”

He pointed to Adley Duncan’s copping of the Emancipation Scholarship — which is only awarded to one person in the island each year — to attend the University of the West Indies. Robb also cited the success of the school’s cadet corps, the oldest in the island, in placing young men in high-ranking positions in the Jamaica Defence Force.

Upon finishing his tenure at Yale, McCalman intends to return to Jamaica to pursue his aspirations of being a doctor.