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

[Dale A Cook]

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Stanley Sidlov wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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