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ASU Prep Phoenix is the only school in Arizona and one of only 26 schools nationwide to receive the honor.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Aaliyah talks about the grit required to balance two worlds, managing high school responsibilities alongside rigorous college classes, and how a single project management course changed her career trajectory forever.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-builder-2.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"search_keywords":[],"class_list":["post-163187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-success"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From freshman fear to future leader: Aaliyah Ordorica earned an 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