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Teyanna Mackay, an 18-year-old graduating senior at Enterprise High School, is thinking about what she will study in college.
She hasn't made up her mind whether it will be business, marketing or education. She just knows she wants to give back to her community. To enrich people's lives the way they have enriched hers, she said.
Mackay's good grades, hard work and community service helped her earn a scholarship from the McConnell Foundation to pay her way through university.
That makes her part of an elite group of North State students. Only 30% of students who apply to the scholarship program are accepted, said David Tanner, the senior program officer of scholarships and higher education at the McConnell Foundation. And over 90% of the students who are accepted, graduate, he said.