Scholarships are NOT awarded by merit. I can tell you that first hand.
My son was valedictorian of his class. My daughter was third in her class. Both were National Honor Society members. Both were on the Dean’s List at Purdue University.
NEITHER got a single penny of scholarship money.
NONE.
It was a disgusting, eye-opening experience for me. We were given a tour of the University of Michigan by a middle-eastern student who told us: “I had a D-average in high school.” He was going to Michigan on a free ride given to him by the university.
One counselor at Cornell told me — and I kid you not: “Valedictorian means nothing. There are over 20,000 valedictorians in the country every year.”
My son now works for a space company on the Mars mission rocket. My daughter works for one of the top biomedical firms in the world. They drove hard through elementary school, high school, and college, and were successful every step of the way through their own diligence. Not once did they get a single penny of scholarship money.
Wow, did YOU take it in the shorts...
My daughter is a HS senior, sounds like yours.
All AP/Honors, NHS, Dance Honor and Theater Honor Societies.
Been accepted for Biomedical Engineering at Drexel, Rutgers, U-Delaware, Penn State, Catholic University with serious merit scholarship offers.
Hard to figure out, because she was born here, Celtic/North Atlantic Islander racial category, parents are married, non-oppressed, etc.
Sounds familiar.
I think we need diversity in sports. Let’s give all the people a shot at it and let’s change the rules so they don’t get hurt by the neanderthals.