On the Thursday, February 23 episode of The Ellen Show, the comedian surprised 41 kids from Summit Academy Charter School in Brooklyn, NY, with four-year college scholarships courtesy of Walmart.

“These students deserve a chance, and thanks to Walmart they’re all getting one. This is almost too unbelievable to be true,” read a caption on the show’s Instagram account. The scholarships, which total $1.6 million, are good for any state university in New York.

Ellen previously had the school’s founder, Natasha Campbell, and principal, Cheryl Lundy Swift, on her program and presented them with a check for $25,000.

Located in a neighborhood where only four percent of adults went to college, the first graduating class from Summit Academy boasted a 93 percent college enrollment rate.

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