18-Year-Old Girl Set to Become the First Graduate in Her Family

Cursory: An 18-year-old girl named Lyric Wise has been awarded a 50,000 dollars worth of scholarship to a university in the United States.

With determination, you can achieve any academic goal.

18-year-old, Lyric Wise was determined to achieve a great academic feat with a proposition of being the first graduate in her family.

Her determination awarded her 50,000 dollars worth of scholarship to a university in the United States for graduating as the second best graduating student of her graduating set.

Wise graduated from Paul Robeson High School in West Philadelphia, United States.

Due to her proposition which inculcated discipline in her by making sure she spent her senior year doing everything right, from getting good grades to participating in as many extracurricular activities as the pandemic allows.

She was also the president of her school’s National Honor Society, participated in First Hand Philly, played softball, and volleyball, and was a cheerleader. Wise even started her own nonprofit organization, Opioid Dependency Prevention all in the prapation of achieving her goal of going to college.

She took college prep classes at The Community College of Philadelphia and The University of Pennsylvania planning for her major and future career.

COVID-19 came as an obstacle not to further her education, because her single mother could not earn as much as she had before the pandemic. Wise was forced to live apart from her mother for a period of time.