{"id":1007615,"date":"2022-03-02T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/02\/pennsylvania-student-offered-more-than-1-million-in-scholarships\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T00:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T00:23:49","slug":"pennsylvania-student-offered-more-than-1-million-in-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/02\/pennsylvania-student-offered-more-than-1-million-in-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania student offered more than $1 million in scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pennsylvania-student-offered-more-than-1-million-in-scholarships.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"476\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=11609198\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 1 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Pennsylvania high school student is facing a big decision after being accepted to 18 colleges and being offered more than $1 million in scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Brianna Maddonni, a senior at Interboro High School in Prospect Park, amassed a total $1.08 million in scholarship offers, but she said she hasn&#8217;t yet decided where to go.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maddonni, who has a 4.0 grade-point average and plays varsity lacrosse, said she believes the key to her success was learning to advocate for herself after finding out she has genetic hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If somebody&#8217;s walking in front of me and they&#8217;re trying to talk to me when I&#8217;m behind them, I can&#8217;t hear a word they say,&#8221; she told WPVI-TV.<\/p>\n<p>Maddonni said she put a lot of work into applying for schools and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I revised my college essay several times, and I applied to all the scholarships that I could, and if they had an honors college, I applied to the honors college,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jasmine Woodson, a guidance counselor at Interboro High School, said putting in the effort is key to getting scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students think they&#8217;re not going to get them, so there&#8217;s a lot of scholarships that are available to students that they don&#8217;t know about because they don&#8217;t try,&#8221; Woodson said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Identical twins Denisha and Destiny Caldwell made headlines in 2021 when they were accepted to more than 200 colleges and universities. The sisters together amassed more than $24 million in scholarship offers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1 (UPI) &#8212; A Pennsylvania high school student is facing a big decision after being accepted to 18 colleges and being offered more than $1 million in scholarships. Brianna Maddonni, a senior at Interboro High School in Prospect Park, amassed a total $1.08 million in scholarship offers, but she said she hasn&#8217;t yet decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}