“My mom and dad always talked about how they were the first to go to college, so that always motivated me,” Jada-Symone Batichon tells PEOPLE
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- New Wheeler High School grad Jada-Symone Batichon got accepted into 53 of the 58 colleges she applied to, with scholarships of about $1.8 million
- Jada-Symone maintained a 4.0 grade-point average in high school and has already taken courses at two colleges
- She will be attending the University of Alabama this fall to study business management
Some kids get into just one college, and many may receive a handful of acceptances. The ambitious ones often try for more — but few go as far as Georgia teen Jada-Symone Batichon, who notched yeses from 53 out of 58 colleges this year, with about $1.8 million in scholarships on top of that.
“All of it paid off,” the 18-year-old from Powder Springs tells PEOPLE.
“It’s everything I have worked hard for,” she adds. “My mom and dad always talked about how they were the first to go to college, so that always motivated me.”…