At this point, many high school seniors have enjoyed their graduation parties and spread out their college acceptance letters on the table to decide where to enroll in the Fall. It’s no competition who gets the most acceptance letters but if there was a frontrunner, it would be Ms. Madison Crowell.
The 18-year-old Hinesville, Ga. resident tells ABC News she’d been going on college tours since she was in middle school. During her time at Liberty County High School, she was heavily involved in extracurricular activities, making it to a varsity cheerleader by the time she was ready to depart.
From those experiences, she told ABC she wanted to pursue a career in the medical field, specifically exercise science or physical therapy.
Crowell said she applied to hundreds of schools and out of the batch, she received a whopping 231 acceptances. On top of that, she received $14.7 million in scholarships.
Read more from her interview with Good Morning America:
“I wanted to apply to as many schools as I did … because I’m coming from a low-income area of Georgia and so I want to show the kids here in Liberty County that it’s possible to get accepted into not only just local schools like Georgia Southern [University] and Savannah [Technical College], but that you can get accepted into schools like the University of Alabama and University of Colorado and [schools] that you think might be out of your reach but is definitely in reach,” Crowell, senior at Liberty County High School, also in Hinesville, told “Good Morning America.”
In her final decision, Crowell said she chose High Point University in North Carolina from which she received a full tuition scholarship. She said her reason for joining was because the atmosphere on campus is “unmatched” and felt like home,” per the college newspaper. Upon enrollment, she will join the school’s Bonner Leaders program and help students connect with local nonprofits.
“The sky is not the limit for her, and when she comes to High Point University, we know she’ll be a leader. We know she’ll make amazing things happen. We’re here to resource her, cheer her on and celebrate her victory,” said President Dr. Nido Qubein in a statement.