Michigan City High School senior Madelyn Parry looked stunned Thursday after a $100,000 four-year scholarship offer from Lane University in Jackson, Tennessee.

She didn’t know Lane’s location or anything about the school, but she was still intrigued and proud.

Parry joined more than 1,000 high school seniors from Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties at Thursday’s Urban League of Northwest Indiana’s Free College Fair at Indiana University Northwest Savannah Center’s gymnasium in Gary.

Parry, who plans to study chemical or nuclear engineering, also received a $25,000 offer from Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis.

“Going to Purdue University for nuclear engineering is my dream.

“I really didn’t know they awarded scholarships on the spot,” she said as Urban League board member Nychi

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