Well, what comes to mind today, or what inspires me as my blog concept says, is education - getting money. It seems the only way anyone can get money is by being extremely poor or having an impossibly high ACT score. Two highly unlikelies. Now mind you that these are great reasons to have a basis on, but the average person does not have these qualities. The average person is just that, average. No average person is going to come up with a 32 ACT score or less than a $20,000 income (legally that is). But that aggravates me as seeing how as I don't have either. Grades don't mean diddly squat. Grades/GPA are about as good to get you into a college and that's about it.
Then there's scholarships, you can apply for them but more than likely they have a financial quota too. And if there is that tiny possibly that you do qualify for a scholarship, you have like a one out of a million chance to get it because fifty million other kids are going for the same exact one. And if you do get some kind of scholarship by the grace of God, it'll probably be some extremely small amount (like $250, come on now, that'll pay for a what, a book or two). Then the fact that some kids just walk through life and get these stupid high ACT scores and their college is paid for. I'm sorry, but what? So the only other option is having loan debt up to your eyeballs after college. I've worked hard my whole high school career just to get loans. But you know what, I'm going to keep hope alive, so it's whatever.
5 comments:
Your hard work isn't a waste. You are developing habits that will serve you will on the next rung of the academic ladder. Your grades equip you for admission to a college of your choice, not their choice.
You'll see the real payoff in college...I believe its something like 1 college class = $300 in your pocket.
Interest-4:You totally had me at the word money
Tone-5: I'm not sure if I can completely relate, but I can see how you feel the way you do.
Content-4:The first word that comes to mind is understandable. College is cleaning out my pockets pretty good.
KALIQA NICHOLAS!!!!!! you have received so many scholarship offers....SHUT UP!!!!! You have a 26 on the ACT just like me and you can go to which ever school you want!!! You're just in a SLUMP because of senioritis...SUCK IT UP!!!! But I can relate lol...I've applied to almost 30 different scholarships now and I've only received 3. They say you get 1 out of every 10 scholarships you apply for. So I guess we'll still be applying for outside scholarships in college unfortunately :-( because most outside scholarships are not renewable. But anyway....first few words: 4 tone: 5 and content: 3!!!!
"Then the fact that some kids just walk through life and get these stupid high ACT scores and their college is paid for."
I feel sort of bad now.
The bar for financial assistance is definitely lowering now. For some schools, if your family makes over $60k then you can go full ride. It all depends on where you're going. I'm glad you're keeping hope alive though. There are plenty of other scholarship opportunities you can apply for even when you're in college. You'll be fine. No worries.
Hope you have fun so FAR away...mmwwhahahaha, mwuahahahahaha, mwuahahahahahaha...you suck.
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