Buchanan graduate earns 3 associate's degrees before high school diploma

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Before getting her diploma from Buchanan High School, Hollie Sauceda had already graduated from Clovis Community College with 3 associate's degrees.

"It's thing that I'll ne'er hide I did truthful young, particularly inactive successful precocious school," Sauceda said.

In 2021, she was finishing her freshman twelvemonth astatine Buchanan erstwhile she saw a communicative connected ABC30 astir a precocious schoolhouse pupil graduating with a diploma and an Associate's degree.

"It conscionable inspired maine due to the fact that I'm ever wanting to bash much and execute much things, and truthful this is thing that I knew was going to beryllium hard, but I wanted to effort it," Sauceda explained.

After seeing the story, she decided to marque it her extremity to postgraduate assemblage and precocious schoolhouse simultaneously, but she encountered a fewer obstacles on the way.

"When I was talking to my counsellor astir it, helium told maine that helium didn't deliberation it was possible, and I said, 'Well, let's effort and let's spot what we tin do,'" Sauceda recalled.

With peculiar support from Clovis Community College, she started assemblage courses the summertime aft her archetypal twelvemonth of precocious school.

"I ended up having to instrumentality 2 four-week summertime classes during my finals week successful precocious school, truthful that was astir apt 1 of the hardest things I've ever had to do," Sauceda said. "It showed maine you tin bash thing arsenic agelong arsenic you enactment your caput to it and don't springiness up and don't slack off."

After 3 years astatine Clovis Community, Sauceda is present walking distant with a 4.0 GPA and credits she tin usage towards a bachelor's grade -- years up of galore of her peers and making her household proud.

"I emotion you," Sauceda's mom, Kristine Clark said arsenic she hugged her daughter. "I virtually person conscionable watched her implicit the years excel astatine everything she wants to do, and there's nary limits whatsoever, truthful we're very, precise proud."

"Thank you," Sauceda said to her ma with a smile.

Sauceda has accepted a assistance to Virginia Military Institute to play DI h2o polo successful the fall.

She plans to treble large successful planetary studies and different undecided subject, with a insignificant successful Arabic and hopes to yet articulation the FBI.

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