Local high school sends entire class to college

A local high school will be sending every graduating senior to college next year. The senior class at Marywood Palm Valley School is sending all 24 students of the 2013 graduating class to a four-year university this fall.

Students will be attending colleges across the United States from USC to Vassar College in New York. Every student we talked to is ready excited for the next step of their life.

“Going out into a bigger environment, to where it’s really just you and you are really able to explore who you are,” said Ivan Kovalenko who will attend USC in the fall.

“Every face will be new. Every person will have a different personality or background that I’m not used to. The diversity will be a lot greater,” said Daniel Stewart who will continue his education at UC Berkeley.

The 24 students were offered 3.5 million dollars in scholarship money combined.