Southland College Prep’s entire senior class is heading to college

After years of exhausting work, the seniors at Southland Faculty Prep received an opportunity to see the way it has paid off as every pupil revealed the place they may attend school within the fall.

All 115 members of the category of 2022 have been accepted, with some selecting between the nation’s prime faculties, together with Candace Cochran, who will attend Columbia College in New York.

“I have been accepted to twenty faculties,” Cochran stated. “A few of the different ones included Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins.”

This end-of-the-year achievement has been the norm for the predominantly African American highschool. Lauren Russell racked up greater than $3 million in scholarships and 26 acceptances. She’s leaning towards Dartmouth Faculty, and stated this could not have occurred with out exhausting work.

“I’ve by no means been the neatest particular person within the classroom, so when different college students are getting an idea like this, it takes me twice as exhausting to get it,” Russell stated. “However I work exhausting as a result of I wish to keep forward, I wish to stick with my classmates at that stage.”

Dr. Blondean Davis, CEO of Southland Faculty Prep, stated the varsity’s dedication to the scholars would not finish as soon as they graduate.

“You actually cannot ship the primary technology of school college students away with out checking on them and ensuring they’ve assist,” Davis stated.

Along with their spectacular accomplishments, the category of 2022 set a document, incomes a complete of $62 million in merit-based scholarships. They beat the earlier document holder, the category of 2020, which earned $60 million.

“I knew we might do it,” Russell stated. “A few of these children I’ve identified since kindergarten they usually’ve been the identical method since kindergarten, working so exhausting, so good. So I knew we’d get up to now and I am so happy with every one in every of them.”

Blaze Atwood, who will attend Wake Forest within the fall, agrees that seeing his classmates work exhausting helped together with his success.

“Simply encompass your self with individuals who actually assist you in your path and Southland actually did that,” he stated.