High school senior accepted to 175 colleges and offered over $9 million in scholarships.
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16-year-old Maliq Barnes, a senior at the International High School of New Orleans, has become the first senior in US history to get accepted to 170 colleges and universities and secure $9 million in scholarship awards. Barnes, who maintained a 4.98 GPA throughout high school while juggling dual enrollment in Southern University at New Orleans with other academic extracurriculars, applied to 200 colleges nationwide last August. He is now a Guinness World Record holder and plans to get a degree in computer science and then attend law school.
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