Ariana Bustos of Paradise Valley, Arizona, receives a $2,500 grant, plus a $1,000 grant from the school.
She was accepted to Arizona State University at 15 and has made the Dean’s List every semester since. She is now a junior with a 4.0 grade point average and multiple awards. Ariana majors in Journalism and Mass Communication (BA) with a Justice Studies minor, has worked at the school radio station and in the Cronkite News-Washington Bureau. She plans to attend law school.