16-Year Old Headed to College, Chooses HBCU Over Yale and Harvard
Curtis Lawrence, 16, a native of Washington, D.C. has graduated high school been accepted to 14 colleges including Yale and Harvard. Although the Ivy league offers the teen wants to attend FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University), a Historical Black College and University. When Lawrence was just 14-years old when he started college through a program at the George Washington University.
Although Lawrence has received more than $1.6 million in scholarships to attend schools like Harvard, Yale, and George Washington University, he decided that he wants to have the HBCU experience. Lawrence will double major in biology and computer science.
“First I started thinking about what schools had good biology programs,” Lawrence told FOX 5 DC. “Then I started looking specifically at HBCUs because I wanted the HBCU experience and to be surrounded by the people who are just like me and who are not only Black but academically talented.”
Lawrence mother Malene said they have been supporting Lawrence educational goals.
“We’ve taught them from an early age that education is key to opening up the opportunities and having access to things that they want to life,” his father Curtis said.
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