A high school graduate in Charlotte, North Carolina, Lemaat Michael has received invitations to attend many of the United States’ major universities, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Spellman College. 

Lemaat received A's in all of her courses, graduated at the top of her class and was valedictorian at her high school’s graduation ceremonies. She chose Stanford University and plans to go to medical school and become a pediatrician. She was born Eritrea and was interviewed by Tewelde of the Tigrigna service.