Smart and cute..
Posted on 10/17/2014 4:26:44 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Meredith, a senior, has recently been honored as the “Head Girl” at Holy Spirit Preparatory School, due to her perfect score of 2400 on the SAT and 36 on the ACT.
Meredith took both tests in only one sitting, within one week of each other. Meredith is humble about her accomplishment: “The SAT and ACT are not easy tests, by any means, so I feel fortunate to have achieved the scores I did. The values of hard work and confidence that my school, Holy Spirit Prep, and my family have instilled in me since Day 1 certainly played a big role in the results. I’m proud of what I accomplished, but never could have achieved it without the support of the people around me.”
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Yes, but does she have self esteem?
Yes, and I expect that if you manage a perfect score on one test, your options are so broad that doing the second test would often seem unnecessary.
As well you should be, but let's not forget how she reached this point.
First, you gifted her with your genes and then you provided her with an upbringing that allowed her to flower.
Congratulations "luckystarmom" on a job well done. (I hope she has siblings.)
Actually, she’s not sure where she’s going. She’s applying to larger universities: Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M, and Clemson.
She has a full tuition scholarship to Alabama already, but we haven’t heard from the others.
She has a very rare medical condition called dystonia, and they are doing research at Alabama that my daughter could particpate in .
http://bama.ua.edu/~gcaldwel/research.html
She hasn’t visited Alabama yet, but she’s going in a few weeks.
She loved the University of Georgia. Her brother goes to Texas A&M (that’s where I went). She thinks it’s too big and not artsy enough for her. Her brother thinks she will love it.
Vanderbilt and Yale have been sending her lots of information, but she just isn’t interested. Plus, she can only go to those if she gets a good scholarship.
She thinks the Ivies would be better for grad school. If she has a good scholarship for undergrad, then we can help pay for grad school.
I commend this young lady for her stellar achievement...I am sure that once this Obola pandemic passes and if she survives, she will have a fine academic career...
Intelligent and humble. That combo will take her anywhere she wants to go in life.
Dear naturalman,
Over the last three years, I’ve had two kids applying to highly selective colleges. I’ve learned a little about the “culture” of competitive college admissions. Once one scores very high on one of these tests, it’s considered a little precious, even uncouth, to retest.
sitetest
I couldn’t get perfect scores with the answers in front of me.
I’d copy something wrong!
I’m really proud of her!!” As well you should! Congratulations.
Only to a "dirty mind", sir (since you were compelled to post that thought).
Most students take one or the other, not both. That limits the possible universe quite a bit.
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I had poor grades in HS in the late ‘50s. I don’t recall if we took the tests then. I might have taken both tests 7 years later, after my Navy service, before beginning college. I do know I had to take both.
In your posts #17 and #18 you are pushing the national or academic “reputation” of certain schools.
That “reputation” is what permits some schools to require exceedingly over-valued tuitions.
As a Manager in a major defense contractor for many years, I had to interview tons of recent grads for professional positions. Those from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, et al, had the expensive degrees and false promises from their schools that they would be making top dollar in management positions. .....I found that grads from State schools who had worked part time to help support themselves while in school were much more attuned to the REAL world and had their feet on the ground and their heads straight regarding expectations. They were the best hires!
I’m not “pushing” anything, let’s get that straight. Perhaps you didn’t intend to come across offensively, but that’s how it’s coming across. I was responding to another FReeper. If you take issue with the type of schools that the daughter is interested in, I suggest you direct this reply in that direction instead, thanks.
Wow, you have the dirty mind. That angle never occurred to me at all.
Smart and cute..
Dear octex,
I don’t know when you went to school or your circumstances at the time, but you will be hard-pressed to find many, if any schools who currently require both tests of applicants for admission.
sitetest
To what angle do you refer?
I was agreeing with the daughter’s choice of attending a larger school like Alabama, rather than the smaller and much more expensive schools like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, etc., populated with socialist professors and students with very rich parents. ....You were indicating you strongly favored attending schools that have better “reputations”.
I don’t know when you went to school or your circumstances at the time, but you will be hard-pressed to find many, if any schools who currently require both tests of applicants for admission.
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As I stated previously, my HS years were in the late ‘50s and only about 15-20% of HS grads then went to a college. Most went to work or the military and soon married. ...I started night school at a community college 7 years later, but due to poor HS grades I had to take both the SAT and ACT. ...I finally got my 48hr MBA at age 40 and had earned 207 college credit hours, with only 1 year being full-time.
Not sure but your allusion to “something dirty” is concerning. You need to assess your impulses, which appear to be unhealthy.
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