Ashley Santos

Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

Major: Mathematics Education

Currently: I am currently a Senior at Illinois State University and plan to graduate in the Spring of 2021. I am still playing soccer at ISU and majoring in Mathematics Education.

Impact of RAK Scholarship: The RAK scholarship has made a huge impact in my life since high school and has become a part of who I am now and forever. I have created life long relationships and found being apart of something so much bigger than myself inspiring. It has lead me to live a life that no only I am proud of, but also strive to make everyone who is apart of the RAK Foundation proud as well.

After learning what the scholarship was all about in high school, it drove me to want to be like the recipients before me and pushed me to go the extra mile. Looking back at my high school experience and this scholarship, being a recipient was by far the most memorable moment of high school. I felt as if everything I was striving to accomplish and my efforts to better my high school community were all highlighted through the honor of being a RAK recipient.