EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)\u2014 Loretto Academy Marina Delgado continues to celebrate her accomplishments. She recently found out she is a 2025 recipient of the QuestBridge Scholarship.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s absolutely overwhelming. I’m still processing. It’s surreal. Even a year ago, I didn’t know the program existed, so to be sitting here, a year later, knowing that, not only I found out about the program, about QuestBridge, but I was lucky enough to become a finalist and then to match to one of my dream universities. It’s completely unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has earned a full, four-year scholarship to the University of Notre Dame. The programs cover tuition, housing, books, meals, supplies and travel.<\/p>\n
The moment she found out she was a recipient is one she\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran downstairs, I almost tripped, and I went, so I said, \u2018Mom, they’re out. We need to open them. We need to open them.\u2019 So with my sister and my mom with trembling fingers, I opened the email and then said \u2018You had matched.\u2019 I just stared. I had a delayed reaction because I was like, \u2018I can\u2019t believe it,\u2019\u201d the Loretto senior said.<\/p>\n
Her mother, Monica Delgago, said that moment is also engraved in her memory.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s going to be something that you’re never going to forget. It’s something that’s always going to be everyone’s happy about,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
During the application process, Marina was tasked with writing a statement. She decided to go the personal route and highlight her mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to show the admissions officers or the people who would be reading my essay that side of me. I wrote about growing up with my mom, how that shaped me, growing up in a single-parent household with the tightness of my sister and my mom, and how their support has led me to where I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her mother said she was honored to be included, but she said she can\u2019t take all the credit.<\/p>\n
Nancy Tovar, the principal of the high school and middle school, told ABC-7 that Marina represents the best of Loretto Academy.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarina is a kind of a quiet leader. You don’t always hear her and see her. She’s always with her, her nose-to-the-grindstone kind of kid. She’s such a hard worker. I had conversations with her. Sometimes I’m trying to encourage her to kind of take it a little easy. She can’t. She doesn’t know how to do that. And that kind of perseverance, that kind of dedication. That’s why she is where she is,\u201d Tovar said.<\/p>\n
Marina said she\u2019s looking forward to the big move this summer. She said she feels she\u2019ll fit right into the Notre Dame community.<\/p>\n
“I’m very devoted in my faith. And I feel like that’s a central part of who I am and the foundation of where I am to continue growing. So knowing that Notre Dame is a Catholic school as well, knowing that I’ll have that foundation. And even though I’m moving really far away, I know that I’ll find similar community over there,\u201d Marina said.<\/p>\n
Marina plans on majoring in behavioral neuroscience. She hopes to become a child psychiatrist. She wants to make trauma-focused behavioral therapy even more accessible, especially to children.<\/p>\n
Marina is also a semifinalist for the Gates Scholarship. It\u2019s currently in phase two of the selective process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)\u2014 Loretto Academy Marina Delgado continues to celebrate her accomplishments. She recently found out she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-93123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}