Wednesday Apr 26, 2023
In an excellent accomplishment, an understudy from Louisiana, US has gotten college grant offers worth great many dollars.
The 16-year-old Dennis Barnes, who is learning at the Global Secondary School of New Orleans seeking after his last year, has been offered grants worth $9 million after he applied to something like 200 universities the nation over in August last year.
No less than 125 schools have so far acknowledged Barnes, while his expectations stay high to get more open doors before he goes with his last enrolment choice.
This accomplishment by the fantastic understudy has driven him to set another public record soon.
"I want to reach $10 million," he said while addressing a neighborhood news source, WWL-television, which originally detailed the eye-popping sum the understudy has amassed.
The young person said his online entertainment "exploded" after insight about his achievement gathered foothold. Barnes has a close wonderful grade point normal (GPA), while he is as of now seeking after school credits at the Southern College in New Orleans.
The youthful understudy didn't track down the method involved with applying to such countless schools "overpowering like a great many people would think".
"I began toward the start of the school year and over the long run, over an extensive stretch of time, I was applying," he said.
Barnes added that his arrangements remember chasing after a double degree for software engineering and law enforcement, an assertion delivered by his school read.
One month from now, in any case, he will report which school he decides to go to for his advanced education.
"The way to a fruitful future is to prepare, network with the university accomplices, and know that on the off chance that you can see your vision, you can accomplish your objective," he said, prompting individual understudies.
The record is presently held by an understudy, Normandie Cormier, from similar US state, which he set quite a while back.
Cormier, who was offered absolute grant help worth $9.4 million from around 140 schools in 2019, is presently finishing her graduate degree at Louisiana State College.
She additionally looked for acknowledgment from the Guinness World Records for her accomplishment. Be that as it may, the association couldn't lay out assuming she was the main understudy to guarantee the accomplishment all over the planet.
