New Orleans high schooler’s $9.7m in scholarship offers surpasses record

Dennis Barnes estimates he could end up with at least $10m in offers when every school to which he applied answers him

New Orleans high schooler Dennis Maliq Barnes has clinched what is thought to be a US record after securing more than $9.7m in scholarship offers from nearly 140 American colleges and universities, surpassing a mark that had previously been set by another Louisianan.

Barnes recently made national headlines after his school sent out a news release announcing that he was approaching an apparent - if unofficial - four-year-old record of $9.4m after hearing back from about 125 of the more than 180 universities to which he had applied.