NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 16-year-old highschool senior in New Orleans who acquired scholarship provides from 149 faculties and universities totaling $10 million stated Friday that he has chosen to attend Cornell College.
Dennis “Maliq” Barnes will graduate on Could 24 from the Worldwide Excessive Faculty of New Orleans, the place he earned a 4.98 grade level common. He additionally has 27 faculty credit by a twin enrollment program with Southern College of New Orleans.
He plans to check laptop science at Cornell, an Ivy League college in Ithaca, New York. He has additionally stated he’s contemplating regulation college.
“At this time is an thrilling day for me and my household, and I sit up for working with Cornell’s Faculty of Engineering over the course of my undergraduate training,” Barnes stated.
In an interview las week, Barnes stated {that a} main purpose he cranked out purposes to shut to 200 colleges was his need to have quite a few academic and monetary choices. He in the end was accepted at 186 faculties and universities. The varsity stated it believes the $10 million in scholarship provides from 149 of them to be a report for U.S. college-bound seniors.