Brilliant Black Teenager Accepted to More Than 30 Colleges Receives over $1M in Scholarship

• Stephen Thomas, a final-year student at Chicago's Bogan Computer Technical High School, has been accepted to over 30 colleges
• The teen prodigy also received more than $1 million in scholarship offers from the various colleges
• His college acceptances include reputable schools like Loyola, DePaul, Northern Illinois, and North Central

Teen prodigy, Stephen Thomas, has been accepted to over 30 colleges and received more than $1 million in scholarship offers.

The 17-year-old senior at Chicago's Bogan Computer Technical High School and one of seven siblings overcame challenges to achieve the feat.

Thomas was raised by a single-parent mom who taught him to create his own story, NBC Chicago said.

More than just a genius brain

He heeded his mother's wise advice and excelled academically with a 4.47 GPA while participating in extracurricular activities. His hard work has paid off.

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The teenagers over 30 college acceptances include schools like Loyola, DePaul, Northern Illinois, and North Central.

Thomas hopes his story inspires other youth like himself to keep pushing and know that anything is possible.

Black Teenager Accepted into Almost 50 Universities Gets Over $1m in Scholarship Offers

In a similar story, Makenzie Thompson, a final-year student at Westlake High School in Atlanta, Georgia, has been accepted into almost 50 colleges.

The teenager also received $1.3 million in scholarship offers, WSB-TV Atlanta reports.

Thompson balances her studies with several extracurricular activities as she serves as senior class president and co-captain of the dance team.

The teen prodigy garnered quite a bit of fanfare when her college acceptance letters began rolling in.

After Overcoming Adversity, Black Lady Becomes Her Family's First Graduate and Doctor

Meanwhile, YEN.com.gh previously reported that on her journey to earning a degree, Lerato Jaca triumphed adversity to achieve her goals, becoming the first person in her family to bag a degree in 2020.

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She understood what it meant for a Black girl to glean such a feat and make history.

In a post on Twitter, Jaca disclosed that she graduated from the University of Cape Town, UCT, making history as her family's first graduate and doctor.

Source: YEN.com.gh