Meet Jordan Carrier
Reynolds Advanced College Academy Graduate (’15)
I was 14 when I made the conclusion to bring together the initiatory score of the Advance College Academy in addition to I can’t handle exactly await dorsum at that fiddling daughter in addition to give thank you lot her for non doing what was easy, exactly what was best for her future. It would cause got been slow for me to move out on alongside the International Baccalaureate Program, exactly I was intrigued yesteryear the opportunities this novel plan offered me. It seemed far-fetched, fifty-fifty impossible, that I could acquire a college score piece I was inwards high schoolhouse in addition to become into my four-year academy every bit a junior.
A few years later, I holler upwards my commencement existent college classes, in addition to wondering what inwards the basis I had gotten myself into. But inwards retrospect, I was gaining such a valuable border over other high schoolhouse students. When I started my commencement twelvemonth at the University of Mary Washington, my peers did non come across the value inwards truly reading the assignments for score in addition to had non learned how to write for college classes. What I had struggled through inwards high schoolhouse I watched my novel classmates acquire by through inwards college, where other pressures in addition to stresses were in addition to therefore much greater than inwards the security of Tucker High School.Every unmarried credit I took through Reynolds Community College inwards the ACA plan transferred to Mary Washington in addition to counted toward my major in addition to toward my full general instruction requirements, allowing me to graduate this coming May. While it is bittersweet, graduating earlier everyone else my age, I am in addition to therefore much closer to accomplishing my goals than I would cause got been without this program. I cause got been accepted into the Richmond Law Class of 2020 in addition to volition start a novel journeying at that spot this fall. Also, every bit an Economics Major, I cause got a fuller appreciation for the financial produce goodness of cutting my undergraduate pupil debt inwards half.
The fourth dimension in addition to financial benefits of this plan are slow to see. But I house in addition to therefore much to a greater extent than value on the skills I gained yesteryear beingness pushed toward excellence yesteryear our mentors in addition to teachers. They instilled inwards me a campaign to produce my best work, a willingness to endure the best I could be, in addition to the overwhelming wishing to brand them proud of me. I promise that in addition to therefore far I have.
Jordan transferred lx college credits from the Reynolds ACA to UMW in addition to graduated inwards May alongside a B.S. inwards Economics, after solely ii years at UMW. Jordan is starting police trace schoolhouse inwards Fall 2017 at the University of Richmond on a total academic scholarship. She is a UR cheerleader in addition to anticipates beingness able to earn her police trace score at the historic catamenia of 23.
