[Discussion] OT: My Daughter is going to GA Tech...

[Stanley Sidlov]

Just a bit off topic. As they say, I have to qvell a bit...

FIrst, Liz (my daughter, those of you who remember her from WarpTech) is the Salutorian 
for her graduating class. She's been number two to the boy who's no 1 for her entire 
school career. I think it sorta sucks since he's on a liberal arts course and even though 
it has AP and Honors classes, he's not a math/science whiz. He's going to Fordham. Last we 
heard there was 2/100ths between them mathematically.

Second: Liz has decided that she's going to go to GA Tech where she was accepted into the 
Engineering School, and Honors. She also was awarded a merit grant equal to the difference 
between state and out-of-state tuition. We don't qual for 'need based' anything though 
money is tight (as with most people). She also got into the engineering and honors at 
these schools: UDel, UMd, Syracuse, Perdue and Rutgers. She didn't apply until April (past 
the scholarship deadlines because we insisted,) to Rutgers (who replied in 10 days) but 
they still gave her 2K. Syracuse was the high and gave her $27K in scholarships and grants 
a year and renewable, but it's $50K a year. Perdue even though she was Honors (only 350 
kids) gave her nothing. Princeton is the only school that didn't accept her, no wait lists 
either.

Moral? Well, the best scholarship money goes to kids with SATs over 2150-2200 and grade 
point over 4.35. Liz refused to take a 'Kaplan' course refused taking  SAT's during junior 
year until May and then only took the SAT test once more in Sr yr and scored 2090; her GPA 
is 4.75. A 720 math is only 4 wrong answers.