A 17-year-old girl named Amari Shepherd has emerged as the overall best-graduating student of Frederick A. Douglass High School and earned a 9.2 million dollar scholarship to study at the university.
Amari graduated from Frederick A. Douglass High School, New Orleans in the United States with a 4.62 cumulative grade point average which was the highest grade point in her class. Her outstanding performance earned her the valedictorian of her set.
She was also awarded multiple scholarships worth 9.2 million dollars and earned acceptance from 162 universities and colleges across the United States. In addition to her achievements, Amari also bagged an associate degree from Bard Early College.
Talking about how she earned multiple scholarships and acceptance, Amari told the 74 News outlet that she sent her bona fides which include the publication of a book titled “Thirteen,” to every college or university she could find that waived the application fee.
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Amari added that she also submitted her application to Niche, an online portal that offers direct admissions to colleges whose criteria students meet. Her school officials believed that she received more scholarship offers than any graduate ever in the school’s history.
She stated that she will be proceeding the Spelman College in the United States for her bachelors degree even though she has been waitlisted by an Ivy League School. Amari said she has always wanted to attend Spelman College and she was awarded a full-ride scholarship by the college.
“My mom always told me to play my role and everything else would fall into place, and that’s exactly what happened. They also give me a full ride 😉. So I’ll be going to my dream school for free,” she said.
Amari said she plans to pursue a Political science degree in law school, after which she wants to tackle some societal issues.
“I want to be on the Supreme Court because I want to be a part of change to make a more fair, just and equitable society, and what better way to do that than from inside,” she said.
She credited her inspiration to her late father and grandparents. Amari mentioned that she was in kindergarten when her father died and she lost both of her maternal grandparents to the COVID pandemic.
Amari said when her grandmother passed, she channeled her grief into making her proud.“Education meant everything to them, so I didn’t really have a choice but to do well in school. It made me feel like everything I do moving forward is bigger than just me,” she said.
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