Alexis Morrison graduated high school with a 4.1 GPA
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- A Virginia high school graduate earned over $4.67 million in scholarships and applied to 70 colleges
- Alexis Morrison is a straight-A student with a 4.1 GPA who also completed 300+ community service hours and led multiple extracurriculars
- She will attend college in the fall to study biomedical engineering
A high school graduate received over $4 million in scholarships after applying to more than 70 colleges. Now, one lucky university will call her a freshman in the fall.
Alexis Morrison was a straight-A student at Lakeland High School in Suffolk, Va., where she also participated in a bunch of extracurriculars.
"I'm volunteering, I'm taking pictures for a sports team, I'm dancing, I'm teaching, I'm tutoring at my school," the teen told WKTR about all of her activities.
“I have a 4.1 GPA, but I also have over 300 community service hours,” she further explained.
"I'm a competitive dancer, and I lead our national honor society. I'm the president this year. I'm in the biomedical sciences program at Lakeland High School," continued Morrison.
The high school senior also said to WAVY, "I received $4.67 million in scholarship offers over the course of my senior year."
Because of Morrison's impressive statistics, she decided to cast a wide net and apply to as many schools as she possibly could for college.
"I'm a competitive person. I just always want to be on top," she said. "So, I would see someone apply, they're like, 'Oh, I just applied for this school,' and I'm like, 'Oh, that sounds great. Let me apply too.' "
“I've heard so many: Virginia Tech, VCU, ODU, Coastal Carolina, George Mason, and I got into around 70 schools there,” Morrison added.
One school that accepted Morrison was Clemson University in South Carolina. The college offered her $8,000 in scholarships, and she is also receiving $10,000 from private scholarships that will go towards her studies.
Morrison received full rides from other schools, however, her father, James, told WKTR. "But she chose one that at least offered money," he said, adding: "I still have a GI Bill that she can use and other benefits that could offset covering the additional costs."
Morrison will study biomedical engineering when she starts taking classes at Clemson in the fall.
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Even with all of her hard work, Morrison was not even in the top five of her graduating class when she walked across the stage and got her diploma.
“You can have perfect grades, but sometimes that's not what they're looking for in college admissions,” she told WAVY.
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