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2015 UCS grad among only 22 to earn merit-based WMU scholarship
An Ike 2015 graduate is one of only 22 WMU freshmen to earn a merit-based scholarship valued at $50,000
An Eisenhower High School 2015 graduate is one of only 22 Western Michigan University freshmen to earn a merit-based scholarship valued at $50,000.
Michael Arellano earned a Presidential Medallion Scholarship to study psychology through WMU.
Medallion Scholarships are the highest merit-based award WMU can bestow on an incoming freshman. Valued at $50,000 each over four years, they constitute one of the largest merit-based awards in American higher education.
The students were selected after competing for the awards in the 32nd annual Medallion Scholarship Program Competition held during two January sessions at WMU. Invitations to compete were based on a combination of high grade point averages and ACT scores, and were extended to students who had applied to WMU by Dec. 5, 2014.
A member of the National Honor Society, Arellano participated in a Model United Nations conference at the University of Michigan in 2012. Arellano was involved in dance throughout high school as a member of the highest competitive team at Suzette’s Masters of Dance. He was selected to teach ballet, lyrical, hip hop, jazz and contemporary dance at the school to students ages 4 through 17.
As a competitor, he won awards in the Mr. Dance America at Nexstar National Dance Competition in 2013 and Mr. Dance America at Revolution National Dance competition in 2012. During his freshman year,
Arellano was also involved in theatre, participating in the Malow Junior High School drama class and choreographing dances for the play “Once Upon a Mattress.”
He is a member of the St. Kieran Catholic Youth Group and has participated in numerous community service projects through his involvement with the Meditation Club, Gleaner’s Food Drive, MJHS tutoring program, Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team and Frasier Villa Nursing Home.
