18-year-old homeless boy beats colleagues to become his school’s best student, bags Civil Engineering degree from US university

Griffin Furlong, an 18-year-old homeless teenager, beat out his classmates at First Coast High in Jacksonville, Florida to become the school’s top graduate despite difficulties in his scholastic studies.

Griffin Furlong, whose mother passed away from cancer, was homeless for a period of his youth. He spent the majority of his life moving between shelters and the houses of relatives in Florida, USA. Griffin Furlong had years of uncertainty before achieving great success in his academic career.

His 4.65 grade point average upon graduation attracted the attention of many in California, who began organizing fundraisers to pay for his college tuition. Furlong remarked of his newfound celebrity, “People from California are contacting me, people from Hawaii, it’s truly been weird.”

In just a few days, more than $30,000 was contributed to help him pay for his college education. The immense love he has received from peers and total strangers, he claims, has humbled him, but his attention is now on the future.

He enrolled at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, to study civil engineering, and four years after starting there, he graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in civil engineering.

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