A girl from Louisiana entered 139 colleges and received $ 8,7 million scholarships

Most parents and counselors advise high school students to apply for at least a couple of colleges in order to have at least one “fallback” option.

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And in Normandy, Cormier from Lafayette (Louisiana) turned out to have more 100 “spare options,” writes USA Today.

She applied to colleges through the Common and Common Black College applications, which allow graduates to apply for one time and send their information to hundreds of colleges, rather than submit individual applications 100 once.

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18-year-old Cormier was accepted into 139 colleges in various parts of the United States. She has two large folders filled with college acceptance letters, which she carefully folded into protective files.

The folders are among letters from the White House, schools and organizations such as Burger King, GE and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation about awards and scholarships - totaling $8,7 million.

The folders were her mom's idea, which she voiced before the girl received her first college acceptance letter. Single mother Shantel Gary tried to inspire her children to dream, work and believe in success.

Gary has been working on her daughter's home schooling for several years. Then she decided she wanted to try high school Early College Academy.

Located on the campus of South Louisiana Community College, this school offers an accelerated curriculum where students complete courses in two years in high school and two years in college. So, May Cormier 9 received a higher education twice: a school certificate and an associate degree in general education at the Southern Louisiana Community College.

In addition, the girl is an entrepreneur, teaching children and adults in her home and online, visiting a local nursing home, during the summer she interned at a hospital and helped girls in STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).

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Entrepreneurship and hard work are her family traits. They set goals and write them on white boards they keep at home.

“Then we help each other achieve them,” Gary said.

The girl's mom is engaged in homeschooling 12 children with her son, Payton.

Large loads Cormier overcomes, despite the chronic disease. Since childhood, the girl’s immune system could not fight diseases, which led to asthma and chronic skin problems.

She admitted that she has been hospitalized many times, at least twice already this year, and has to have frequent blood tests to check her white blood cell count. But she tries to smile all the time because she believes that her mission is to inspire others.

“When I was a child, I often ended up in the hospital. When I was little, it affected my self-esteem. But now I can use it to inspire others,” Cormier explained.

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She had many options for where to go to study this fall, but Cormier chose one. She decided to study at Xavier University in Louisiana, a private university in New Orleans, who offered her full-time coverage, like 16 from other colleges.

“It was an easy decision,” Cormier said, emphasizing that she didn’t make the decision because of the money. Xavier is well known for promoting African American graduates into medical school and for the high success rates of these students.

Since the girl wants to become a doctor, this determined her choice.

“Xavier’s goals are the same as mine,” she explained.

Her frequent hospital stay as a patient and a volunteer prompted her to choose this path.

“She wants to continue to inspire kids,” Gary said.

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