Dennis Maliq Barnes is also on track to reach his goal of $10 million in scholarship offers by the end of this month.
has been all over the news for the past week, but I got the pleasure of finding out that he prefers to go by his middle name: Maliq. Up until fairly recently, he considered himself an ordinary teen who liked to ride dirt bikes and socialize with friends, and who never received snail mail. But since he applied to college, everyone, including Barnes’ neighborhood mail carrier, knows “ordinary” just doesn’t fit the bill.
“I was aware that there were scholars before me that attained high goals,” Barnes tells me. “I knew that this was something that this school did... but I didn’t think it would happen to me.”It did, though. And he’s now a Guinness World Record holder — a little treat to accompany his academic success.
“I have had two other candidates that were able to accomplish their goal for X amount of millions. However, with [Barnes], it is a quite unique case,” she says. And for those wondering how Barnes handled the cost of applying in such high volume: James tells us that if the applications were not already free, she worked to get the application fee waived.James, like Barnes’ own family members, noticed his ambition early.
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