EUFAULA, Ala. (WTVY) – In high school, Trinity Gant had a lot on her plate.
“I was really almost in every club,” said Trinity. “I had stuff to do almost every day of the week.”
Juggling all this, she still pulled out a 4.16 GPA.
Even with her stellar grades, she found it difficult getting what she wanted out of colleges.
“I was getting rejected, waitlisted left and right,” said Trinity. “It was kind of disheartening.”
Trinity got rejected from Duke, waitlisted from University of Georgia and didn’t get a full ride to Howard, but fate had something else in mind.
Not long after this, Trinity would open her email and see an acceptance from Harvard University.
“I applied and I didn’t think I would get in,” said Trinity. “I facetimed my mom and was like, ‘Guess what?’ and she said, ‘What?” I told her I got into Harvard and she said, ‘Shut up, you’re lying.”
Trinity got a full ride to Harvard, along with her scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“Literally everything counts,” said Trinity. “There’s also going to be opportunities for me to study abroad through it too. I’m just so grateful for all that I got.”
Trinity is ready to take on Massachusetts, but leaving her mom will be her biggest challenge yet.
“Living in a single parent household, she’s done everything for us,” said Trinity. “She’s my biggest motivator. I hope every sacrifice she’s made for me, I can make up for when I go to school.”
Trinity plans to concentrate in Human Developmental Regenerative Biology.
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