San Marcos High School student receives $48,000 scholarship from UT Austin

For Dava Flowers, Christmas came early this year. 

Flowers, 17, walked into the Criminal Justice Classroom inside San Marcos High School on Wednesday with her friends, family and members of the Office of Admissions at the University of Texas at Austin awaiting. 

UT Austin Assistant Director of Admissions Caroline Enriquez informed Flowers that she had been accepted into the College of Liberal Arts’ Honors Program as well as the university’s Plan II Honors Program. Then, from behind a podium, Enriquez grabbed a check for $48,000 and handed it Flowers — she had been awarded one of UT’s Impact Scholarship.