Many teens apply for college scholarships, hoping to ease the cost of tuition after high school. When one young woman in Philadelphia applied for financial support, she never imagined that she’d be awarded over $1 million for her education. Shanya Robinson-Owens applied to more than 20 colleges and was accepted into a total of 18 schools. The 17-year-old’s determination won her the scholarship yield of a lifetime. “I was pretty excited,” the teen told Good Morning America. “I wasn’t really expecting it.” Shanya’s aunt, Christine Owens, says her niece always got good grades, but the $1,074,260 in scholarship money was a shock. “We are overjoyed,” Christine said. “I knew she wouldn’t have a problem getting into colleges, but we didn’t know they would award her this much money in scholarship funds.” The George Washington Carver High School student, who says she currently has a GPA of 3.2, was surprised, as …
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