“Never even got 1 offer of a scholorship.”
It may have been that “uphill both ways” thingy! Oh, and your spelling. :-)
Every time I hear one of these heartwarming “I grew up in a log cabin and walked five miles in the snow to go to school and it was up hill both ways” for some reason a little voice in the back of my head says “Reall?”
Now this kids story may be true and if it is a little exaggerated? Well if you can’t exaggerate on a college application or a job resume where can you? But I am looking at a map of the Columbus library system and a map of the racial distribution in Columbus and I got to tell you it would be fairly hard for a kid in the Columbus ghetto to be 3 miles from a library especially since the main library and the Martin Luther King branch sit pretty much in the middle of the blackest neighborhoods in Columbus.
In any event I still wish the kid good luck because if his life was not quite as grim as he pictured it on his application it probably still was not a bed of roses.