“I just kept going forward, kept applying, kept applying to different schools that I thought would even remotely interest me,” the New Orleans student said.
NEW ORLEANS — He is a senior at 16. His grade point average is 4.98. Even before graduating from high school, he has earned 27 college credits and, perhaps the most impressive numbers of all, he has scholarship offers from around 130 colleges and universities that, as of Thursday, totaled more than $9 million.are a source of pride for school administrators who are looking into whether Barnes has set a record for scholarship offers.
His plan is to major in computer science as an undergraduate. But he also said he has done work as an intern at the Louisiana State Bar Association — the offices are a short walk from the high school campus — and that has him thinking about law school. James and Head of School Adierah Berger both describe Barnes as a leader and an example to other students — including the school’s English language learners.
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