I graduated from high school in 2005 with a 4.0 GPA ranking high in the top ten percent of my class. I was active in Class council all four years as Secretary and Vice President. I was also Captain of the lacrosse team, member of the Latin Dance Club, Green and White Spirit Club, PALS club, JROTC Colorguard, JROTC Honorguard, and JROTC Choir. I also graduated as a member of the National Honors Society, Rhode Island Honors Society, and Spanish National Honors Society...

I would say that I have been a well rounded and hard working student... After high school, financial aid and scholarships didn't even pay for half my of my tuition...I applied to numerous scholarships and received ONE $3000 scholarship...

Scholarship organizations and the government claim that they would award and aid the outstanding students, the financially needy students, and the ones active in their schools. I fit in all those categories and
I did EVERYTHING my parents, teachers, and everyone told me to do.... So why did I get "shafted"

i am so sorry

That's what im doing. I'm not quite as smart as you are, but I'm sure i'll get accepted somewhere.

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Blame noone, Expect nothing, Do something

but at the same time I applied for grants and scholarships that dealt with my personal life: ie: Catholic Scholarships, Skin Cancer Scholarships (I had Melanoma), my dad was born in Italy so an Italian "Grant"...

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When God gives you lemons...
Find a new God.
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Post edited at 1:44 pm on Oct. 16, 2007 by freshness

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Remember, faithful Jesus, that I am the cause of your journey;
Do not let me be lost that day.

AKA. we're fucked.

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Danse Macabre.

To guitarist451 : My school IS very well respected. We had  one of the top JROTC in the NATION, we had math winners, science winners, track, drill, basketball... you name it. It was a public school one of the best in the state.

To Rastafarian: That's because we start everything earlier and we skip middle school... in the Philippines we started doing division and multiplication in 1st grade....

To freshness : Um... obviously not since it's not the way I planned...and there was no bragging in my post... but I'm PERFECTLY content.. thank you very much..

To Jrmy590: I was  -----     <---- that close to going to West Point. My grades would have given me a free ride... but physically... I don't think I could have handled it... plus I was in JROTC four years and I know  what goes on.... they tell you 4 years in the army and then you're free... what they don't tell you is about mandatory enlistment.... which 4 years can become 5,6,7,8,9... I'm all set with that.

And to the rest... thanks for the replies!