Waco native overcomes obstacles to earn not one, but two degrees from Baylor
…tunately, her family couldn’t make the finances work, and she headed to McLennan Community College instead. There, she discovered her way into Baylor: a full-ride transfer scholarship from the Waco Foundation, given to three top MCC students each year. “I asked my friend who got the same scholarship a year before what her GPA was, and she said a 4.0… I mean, I had all A’s, but I still had a lot of hard classes left!” Mendoza recalls. But she was s…