ALBANY, Ga. - A 17-year-old high school student in Georgia has applied to almost 100 colleges and universities and was accepted into half of them — earning more than $600,000 in scholarships.Kenyari Sawyer, a senior at Monroe Comprehensive High School in Albany, Georgia, said she began applying in August.
She’s been accepted to 48 of the 92 schools to which she applied. "My first two colleges I applied to was Cleveland and Mississippi, and I didn't think I was going to get accepted into those.
Then I was like, 'Hey, this is how it goes. It's an easy process and I just started going from there," Sawyer told FOX 31.The 4.0 student also received over half a million dollars in scholarship money from several schools, including Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana ($40,000 total, $10,000 per year), Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia ($88,000 total, $22,000 per year), Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore, Maryland ($80,000 total, $20,000 per year, Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona ($62,000 total, $15,500 per year), and Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida ($116,000 total, $29,000 per year), the local station reported.College application fees can add up, particularly if a student has applied to nearly 100 institutions.