18-year-old Kid Secures His Future, Wins Scholarship into 40 US Universities

Cursory: 18-year-old Progidy receives $1.6 million worth of scholarships from 40 Universities and Colleges in the United States.

Another young mind has shown his academic prowess. These feats clearly state that your desire should be well put down early enough to run with it.

18-year-old, Samuel Lyons has achieved a remarkable feat after winning $1.6 million worth of scholarships from 40 Universities and Colleges in the United States.

Lyons is a Franklin High School senior who earned acceptance from 40 colleges and universities in the United States. He also has been offered more than $1.6 million in scholarship money.

According to him, he said he earlier applied for five colleges because he was confuse on his choice, but later applied for more colleges.

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In his words:

“I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go at first. After I applied to the first five, I decided to keep going. I didn’t want to undervalue myself; wanted to have as many choices as I could,

“It was very time-consuming, I had to manage my time while applying to so many schools and doing virtual learning. I didn’t really know what to expect since it was my first time applying to colleges. I didn’t expect to get offered so much in scholarship money.”

The Guidance Counselor at Franklin High School, Ale Massenburg shared:

“We started in August 2020 doing his college applications and he has diligently been working at home applying to colleges while virtual, I do not believe this is all of his scholarship money or acceptance letters, We have completed several other scholarships from different organizations that we are waiting on. I believe that he will get those also,

“Sam Lyons has been accepted into 40 colleges with a total amount of scholarships awarded of $1.6 million, He is the first student since I’ve been at FHS to have been accepted into this many colleges and earned this huge amount of scholarship money by himself.“

Samuel went on to encourage young students like him the need to set goals, declare it, put it ahead, and chase them.