Angel Gutierrez is all packed and ready to begin life as a Sun Devil. The first in his family to go to college, Gutierrez worked hard to get here by doubling up on classes his senior year. All that hard work paid off for him as he earned the largest scholarship available to an Arizona resident to begin his college journey studying business law at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business.
“It’s very exciting because I’ll be the first in my family to go to college. A little nervous too, because no one tells me how to be the first, but I think I’ll be fine,” said Gutierrez, from Glendale, Arizona.
The son of a single mom, he shares that it was once his mother’s dream to attend Arizona State University.
“She immigrated here and wanted to go here so I’m doing it for her — in a way, I accomplish her dreams, too.”
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