Amanda Russell, 17, was selected from more than 2,800 Twitter entries for a scholarship offered by a foundation for the Louisville-based KFC restaurant chain.
The teenager was awarded R142 per character and she reached the 140 character limit in her tweet about the late Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Friend Chicken.
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The creative tweet read: 'Hey Colonel! Your scholarship's the secret ingredient missing from my recipe for success!
'Got the grades, drive, just need cash!'
Ms Russell, who attends Long Beach High School, is now planning to study biology and hopes to become a doctor or medical researcher.
She has managed to achieve a 3.9 grade point average, but has not chosen where she will go to university.
its not the matter of being luck for this girl to get the scholarship she worked for if
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