Kicker - Scholarship payoff

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, as problems go, this is what we’d call “a good problem to have.”

A Pennsylvania high school senior is trying to figure out where to go to college.

Brianna Maddonni has a 4.0 GPA, she plays varsity lacrosse, she coaches youth sports, she works 2 part-time jobs and applying for scholarships has become another part-time job.

She told TV station WPVI:

MADDONNI: I revised my college essay several times and I applied to all the scholarships that I could. It just feels like all my hard work really paid off.

It paid off in a very big way.

She’s been offered more than $1 million in scholarships!

Brianna believes at least part of her success is due to her openness about her genetic hearing loss. In her essay, she talked about her struggles to get past what other students would think of her and begin wearing her hearing aid in class. (And she was clearly listening.)

Now, the million dollar question: Not which college will accept her, but which college she’ll accept?

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