Detroit High School Senior Voted 'Most Positive' Gets More Than $1.7M in Scholarship Offers

Tatyana Alves.Photo:Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK

Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK

A graduating Detroit senior known for her sunny outlook and positive vibes received a whopping $1.7 million in college scholarship offers.

Tatyana Alves, 17, a graduating senior at The School at Marygrove — a K-12 entrance-examination school that focuses on social justice and engineering — was voted “Most Positive” in her class, known for saying she’s doing “amazing” whenever asked, according to theDetroit Free Press.

Tatyana Alves.Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK

The student toldThe Detroit Free Presshaving to do virtual learning for a year during the pandemic was “one of the roughest transitions that I’ve ever been through."

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Regarding her abundance of scholarship offers, Alves told theFree Pressshe started actively seeking out scholarships when she was a junior, and chalked up some of her success toRaise.Me, a micro-scholarship site she discovered on TikTok through a friend.

“I’m so proud of her,” she said of her daughter. “She exceeded all expectations.”

source: people.com