Tearful News
It's nearly evening on the last day the high school senior can receive the news. Since seventh grade, Aubrey Higginson has been a part of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's Young Scholar Program, which every year picks another 50 students nationwide to receive extra resources and guidance. For Higginson, the program has led to an array of pursuits and made her eligible for a scholarship from the foundation. But the phone call hasn't come.
Higginson knows where she wants to attend: Carnegie Mellon University. She immediately felt at home during a campus visit. Going to school within driving distance of her family in Leesburg, Va., would be an added bonus. When she received the news she was accepted, she was thrilled. But wait. Even with a "generous" aid package, her family was in no position to cover the difference. She needed that scholarship.
To make matters more heartbreaking, one by one her friends were updating their Facebook status, proclaiming their lives are "complete" because they would be attending the colleges of their choice. Higginson could only wait. And cry. A realist, she was already thinking about options. Still, if only . . .
8 p.m. Nothing. But wait, there's a message that she somehow missed. It's from the foundation; the news is good. Higginson starts "bawling" and proudly posts on Facebook that she's going to Carnegie Mellon. Last fall, she joined the freshman class. -Elizabeth Shestak (HS'03)
3 comments:
I love this story! Aubrey is so amazing and proud does not even begin to describe it. I would love to know the classes she took, her grades, what she learned, what she liked, and did not like. Has she decided what she wants to do as a CAREER? I mean other than being a tattoo artist! Girl, should seriously start her own blog. I have not done a blog post in so long because of stress so I have no idea when she would get time. Thanks for sharing!
Not giving this talented and intelligent granddaught the means to recieve the best education would be travisty for our society. No matter what she choses as a career, she will benefit our world. I must add that as a stay at home Mom (for a while) she will benefit the next generation.
Her Grander
Awesome!
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