申请大学获得了近100万美元的奖学金

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High school senior who applied to 50 colleges has received nearly $1 million in scholarship offers【KCCI】

ATLANTA —

A high school senior in Georgia potentially has a lot of choices when it comes to her future -- at least 31 of them, in fact.

Kayla Willis posted a photo to Twitter on Sunday showing she had been accepted to 31 colleges. She’s still waiting to hear back from 19 others, according to Essence.

“Someone said ‘the whole world needs to know how great you are’ so here we go,” she said in the Twitter post.

Willis told Essence it was her dad that inspired her to do it.

She initially had concerns about the application process, since she considered her SAT score of 1160 to be average, but she also maintained a 3.95 GPA.

"I wanted to inspire people and show them that you can actually dream big and get to where you want to go," Willis told Essence.

The photo showed potential scholarship offers, too, already adding up to more than $900,000, WXIA-TV reported, including an $80,000 scholarship offer from Xavier University and a $37,400 scholarship offer from Howard University.

But she’s already accepted a full-ride scholarship at Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, with plans to major in international business and Spanish, according to Essence.

She also took the extra step of asking colleges to waive the application fees, which can add up quickly, and applied to colleges that did. She only paid postage for her applications.

As of Thursday afternoon, her Twitter post has more than 148,000 likes and 33,000 shares.