{"id":63881,"date":"2025-06-10T02:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63881"},"modified":"2025-06-10T02:50:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T02:50:45","slug":"teen-who-was-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63881","title":{"rendered":"Teen Who Was Too\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-401.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-401.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-401-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jada-Symone Batichon, a recent graduate of Wheeler High School in Georgia, was accepted into 53 of the 58 colleges she applied to, earning nearly $1.8 million in scholarships. With a 4.0 GPA and college coursework already completed at Kennesaw State and Chattahoochee Technical College, she plans to attend the University of Alabama this fall to study business management. Her goal: earn both undergraduate and master\u2019s degrees in four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18-year-old from Powder Springs credits her success to hard work and the guidance of her mother, Dr. Claudia Batichon, a teacher and founder of THINK Prot\u00e9g\u00e9, a college and career prep program. Jada-Symone\u2019s high school journey included cheerleading, student government, and founding a girls\u2019 empowerment club called EmpowHer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiming to avoid student debt, she applied to dozens of schools in search of scholarships. \u201cMy mom always told me\u2014interest rates are high,\u201d she says. Now, as she prepares for college life, she\u2019s considering summer internships and jobs before move-in day. \u201cIt\u2019ll be quiet without my family,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I know how to manage my stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=63856\">ALSO READ&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jada-Symone Batichon, a recent graduate of Wheeler High School in Georgia, was accepted into 53 of the 58 colleges she applied to, earning nearly $1.8 million in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63883,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions\/63883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}