By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A Manhattan woman who's at the top of her class at West Point has won a Rhodes Scholarship on Monday.
Alexandra Rosenberg, a graduate of Hunter College High School, is a senior at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and has previously won a Truman Scholarship and been named one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten Collegiate Women.
The Rhodes Scholarship provides tuition and living expenses to 32 American students every year while they complete graduate programs at Oxford University in England.
Over 1,500 vied for the prize this year, according to Elliot F. Gerson, American secretary of the Rhodes Trust.
Rosenberg, 21, is a Sociology major at West Point and ranks first academically in her cadet class, Gerson said in a statement on Monday announcing the winners.
She's tutored cadets in Chinese and English, developed a company-wide tutoring program, volunteered at Tripler Army Medical Center and spent seven weeks working with Crossroads Africa, a grassroots community development program.
Rosenberg plans to work toward a master's degree in Global Health Science at Oxford, and become an Army doctor.
Also headed to Oxford as a 2009 Rhodes Scholar is Columbia University senior Raphael J.C. Graybill of Great Falls, Montana. At 19, Graybill was Montana's youngest delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Graybill will study political theory at Oxford.
