Record College Scholarships in Archdiocese

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Student who attended high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia earned an impressive amount in college scholarship money this year.

Friday, graduating students representing 17 high schools in the 5 county region revealed the total amount.

One by one, they turned over numbers to show a total of over 396 million dollars in scholarship money earned.

That is a record-breaking amount.

The students also shared which colleges they plan to attend from Villanova to Penn State to Temple to Princeton and other institutions of high learning nationwide.