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| Jazz-Lynn Butler performs a step routine. |
From the Palm Beach Post:
Jazz-Lynn Butler doesn’t just have an unusual name - The
18-year-old Boynton Beach resident will tell you herself, she’s different.
“I was born with an umbilical cord wrapped around my left
foot,” said Butler. “I was just born different, I’m very unusual.”
So it wasn’t a shocker when she stood out once again,
academically, as Santaluces High School’s 2014 valedictorian. Her GPA was 3.88
but she confesses her HPA of 4.65 put her above the competition by merely a
point.
She applied to just two schools and was accepted at both - the University of Central Florida and Florida A&M University. She’ll attend FAMU with aspirations of becoming a pharmacist.
“It has the best pharmacy school in the country,” said Butler.
“I wanted to choose an occupation that 10 years later I wouldn’t have to
struggle to look for a job, I didn’t necessarily want to deal with blood and
surgery. I thought pharmacy was a good way to get the best out of both worlds.”
Balancing out all of the rigors of academics was Butler’s artistic bent.
“Most people don’t know that I took three years of art classes and also AP Art History. Many people are surprised to find out that I am quite the artist.”
She was also involved in the National Honor Society, Florida ASPIRA, a national Hispanic organization that aids in the development of the educational and leadership capacity of Hispanic youth, and Link Crew, a group that helps incoming freshman assimilate.
She also found a passion for step dancing that she participated in throughout all four years of her high school career as a member of the Ladies of Nu Gamma Rho Step Team.
Read the full article here.