“It’s still unbelievable,” is what high school senior Ariana Alexander said when she thinks of breaking a city-wide school record for the most scholarship money.
This year’s graduating class of Chicago’s Kenwood Academy total 371 students boasts of $39.6 million in scholarship money, three of which are gates scholars.
Not only is Ariana the valedictorian of Kenwood Academy, class of 2015, she’s also racked up over $3 million dollars in scholarship money alone.
“I applied to over 20 schools” she say. “I got accepted into 26 schools, including six of the eight Ivys and that was a chunk of change right there. And then I’m a Gates Scholars and that was big chunk there.”
So that means in the fall, Ariana has her choice of any college or university and she has chosen Penn.
Chicago High School Student Breaks Scholarship Record was originally published on blackdoctor.org
