With just a 3% acceptance rate, the Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford is one of the most prestigious graduate programs in the world. One of this year’s winners is from right here in Alexandria.

Rhodes Scholar Hadi Kamara hopes his story shows people it’s never too late to achieve your dreams.

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"I actually ended up leaving high school with a 2.08 GPA, right? That's not the first thing that people think of when they hear 'Rhodes scholar,' right?" Kamara said.

But he is here to prove everyone wrong.

Raised in Alexandria by a single mom who emigrated from Sierra Leone, Kamara enlisted in the U.S. Air Force out of high school in 2019 and became a flying crew chief, in charge of making sure the airplanes were sa

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