Miss America Teresa Scanlan ”I’m Going Back To College”

Stay in school fool! Not for the learning, but because this beautiful lady just might be sitting behind you in chemistry class! Teresa Scanlan, Miss America 2011, has officially ditched the model life, for college..

Scanlan, 19, explained her lifetime dream of attending Evangelical Christian school Patrick Henry College in Virginia..

“I have wanted to go to Patrick Henry College since I was 7 years old,” she told the Post. “All my plans and goals have been from a very young age.”

 
Scanlan, currently a model and motivational speaker, said college life is best when lived to the fullest..

“I wish I could live in the dorms,” she said. “But it wasn’t going to be realistic with my need for office space and a permanent address. . . I can’t drop off the planet for seven years and then try to resume my career.”

 

The former Miss America says she first learned that her beauty queen title didn’t mean squat in comparison to academia.

“The caliber of kids here really blows me away,” Scanlan said of her school. “I don’t even want to throw my title around when so many others are so far beyond.”

 
In accordance with the school’s rules for off-campus freshman, Scanlan’s mother had to relocate to the house she purchased in Purcellville, Va. bringing along her three homeschooled younger siblings.

Source: upi.