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Parents consider lawsuit after daughter loses valedictorian spot

Elisha Marquez has been accepted to Ivy League schools and is on her way to Stanford in the fall. The 18-year-old has already nabbed an engineering internship at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and earned a scholarship through the Gates Millennium Scholars program.
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