New Orleans Student Makes History Earning $9M In Scholarships, Accepted To 125 Colleges

While there have been many before him who have achieved this level of academic success. Barnes’s overall scholarship total of $9 million and college offers officially make him the only high school senior in U.S. history to receive this amount.

“I submitted college applications in August with an eye on raising the bar high for college admissions. Decision letters were an overflow in my mailbox, and hundreds of scholarship offers,” Barnes told WWLTV.