A New Orleans high school senior has raised the bar when it comes to historic amounts of scholarship money, blowing the old standard out of the water.
Dennis Barnes, a soon-to-be-graduate of the International High School of New Orleans, has gotten offered a total of $9 million in scholarship money, the most for a college-bound senior in American history.
The previous record was set in 2019 by a senior in Lafayette who received $8.7 million in scholarship offers, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.
“I submitted college applications in August, with an eye on raising the bar high for college admissions. Decision letters were an overflow in my mailbox and hundreds of scholarship offers,” Barnes told WWL-TV.
And he still hasn’t finished the tally. He said his goal is to reach $10 million by the end of the month.
Barnes has also been accepted at 125 different colleges and universities.
He plans to pursue a dual undergraduate degree in criminal justice and computer science.
Barnes plans to make his decision on where he will attend in the fall public on May 2.
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