EUFAULA, Ala. (WTVY/Gray News) – An Alabama high school student’s hard work has paid off.
Trinity Gant says it was kind of a juggling act during her high school years as she always had a lot on her plate.
“I was really almost in every club,” she said. “I had stuff to do almost every day of the week.”
And she was still able to graduate with a 4.16 grade point average.
However, despite her stellar grades, Gant said she had difficulty getting into a few of her college selections.
“I was getting rejected, waitlisted left and right,” she said. “It was kind of disheartening.”
According to Gant, she got rejected from Duke University, placed on a wait for the University of Georgia, and wasn’t offered a full ride to Howard University.
But fate had something else in mind.
Not long after receiving the disheartening news from those colleges, Gant said an acceptance letter from Harvard University came her way.
“I called my mom, and I told her I got into Harvard!” she said.
Gant said her Harvard tuition will be fully covered and she also received a scholarship from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, totaling $1.9 million in scholarship money.
“Everything counts,” she said. “There’s also going to be opportunities for me to study abroad. I’m just so grateful for all that I got.”
Gant said she 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,” she said. “She’s my biggest motivator. I hope every sacrifice she’s made for me; I can make up for when I go to school.”
Gant plans to concentrate her studies on human developmental regenerative biology.
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