Our blog is sounding like Sam's blog. Sam was chosen as a Regents Scholar at the University of New Mexico. This is the most distinguished scholarship UNM offers and includes tuition, books, fees, room, and board. The scholarship will allow Sam to take a two-year leave of absence to go on a mission. The program will also pay for study abroad. Sam could spend one year in Kyoto, Japan to attend the University of Kyoto as part of his academic experience. Or, he could spend a year in Rome or England. Cool eh? I hope he goes to Japan on his mission so he can go to Kyoto afterwards.
Sam dropped out of High School and took his GED last week. He is still participating in the Career Enrichment Center's nursing program where he is top in his class and expects to get his LPN pin in May. He also had straight A's at his high school, but lacked a few required classes like government and economics, world and US history, and three years of a language. He decided that he would rather take release time seminary instead and was too busy to take correspondent classes due to his nursing schedule. Sam goes to bed at 8 or 9 pm and gets up at 4:30 everyday. Albuquerque Public Schools does not accept seminary credit.Sam is also a finalist in a special BAMD program where he can be accepted into UNM's medical school as a freshman. Sam should find out about the BAMD program sometime in April. Sam and his friend made this picture for the senior slideshow:
2 comments:
Wow, that sounds like a sweet scholarship! What an awesome deal!
Holy cow! What a relief to have everything covered like that! Congrats! You are the super high achiever of the family! I'm going to have to teach my boys to follow in your footsteps for sure!!
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