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Title: Pure Vanity: My daughter just won a full college scholarship
Source: me
URL Source: http://moi.com
Published: Apr 1, 2007
Author: Me
Post Date: 2007-04-01 18:25:32 by Mekons4
Keywords: None
Views: 963
Comments: 16

My daughter, who is 16, applied for early admission at a Great Books college here in Chicago, Shimer College, and was accepted. Then they had a competition for two full four-year scholarships last Saturday. The Dean just called, and Kathleen was one of the winners. It's like hitting the lottery...except it wasn't luck.

Enormously proud dad here. She was literally dropping out of high school she was so unhappy, and this place is exactly right for her. She got to meet many of the students and loves the place. There's more than a little relief mixed with the joy.

We're headed out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate!

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#1. To: Mekons4 (#0)

fantastic news!

a lot of decent people who are intelligent are bored with the mediocrity that is ubiquitous now-a-days. it's great if she has a place to go and really study especially a classic curriculum.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-01   18:31:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Congrats to you and to your girl.

My first born will be 16 in 6 years so I'd be curious to hear how you make it happen.

Antiparty - find out why, think about 'how'

a vast rightwing conspirator  posted on  2007-04-01   18:33:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

When the GI Bill of Rights was passed for WW2 vets, tuition at the Ivies was less than $1,000 ($10,000 inflation-adjusted).

Only about 40% of WW2 GIs was a high school grad.

MUDDOG  posted on  2007-04-01   18:34:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Congratulations, and make the most of the evening ahead!

Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org

who knows what evil  posted on  2007-04-01   18:48:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Bump it and CHEERS!

You go girl!

Good job, Mr. & Mrs. Meks - well done.

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-04-01   19:07:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Congratulations! (to you too)

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

robin  posted on  2007-04-01   19:30:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

how exciting! way to go, Kathleen!

christine  posted on  2007-04-01   19:40:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Bravo Mekons4. You've done good.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-04-01   19:44:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Thank you all. She's a great kid, and deserves what she earned. We would have gotten her in there one way or the other, but at $22K a year, it would have been tough. Now, no sweat. It really hasn't sunk in yet; it's still this great concept, but it won't be real for a couple of days when she pre-registers and picks her classes. She's already sort of wistfully asking if she has to go back to Mass. to finish this year. I said, dream on.

I've missed her a lot this year, and almost wish she didn't have to go back next week, but the high school gave her a very generous scholarship and now they get to include her SATs and the fact she jumped to college in their record. So yeah, she has to go back.

Hard to believe my kid is a college student. Seems like about a month ago she was in 4th grade.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-04-01   23:42:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

but the high school gave her a very generous scholarship and now they get to include her SATs and the fact she jumped to college in their record.

Best wishes to your daughter - that's quite an accomplishment - and best of luck in her new and challenging academic endeavors!

scrapper2  posted on  2007-04-01   23:48:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

ok,,so what did y'all have for your celebratory dinner?

christine  posted on  2007-04-01   23:49:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

oh my gosh, that is fantastic! yay for Kathleen!!!

kiki  posted on  2007-04-02   0:10:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Congratulations on the great news! She must get her brains from her mom.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2007-04-02   0:12:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Congratulations.

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi

angle  posted on  2007-04-02   8:39:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

ok,,so what did y'all have for your celebratory dinner?

We had tapas, including grilled octopus, artichokes, duck ravioli, and lamb dumplings. Then a huge paella stuffed with prawns, shrimp and clams and other seafood munchies. Creme brulee with raspberries for dessert. I'm still stuffed.

I got an interesting detail out of her about how she glommed on to Shimer. After her ACT tests, which she aced, she got an email from them, then a follow-up, which for some reason ended up in her trash folder. She was cleaning out the folder and accidentally clicked on it, which reminded her, so she went to the website and saw they had early admission. Being desperate to get out of high school, she applied and submitted all her writing and so on and got accepted. Then they told her about the scholarship competition.

All because she accidentally clicked on an email. There's a moral in here somewhere, but damned if I can figure it out.

Mekons4  posted on  2007-04-02   17:56:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

We had tapas, including grilled octopus, artichokes, duck ravioli, and lamb dumplings. Then a huge paella stuffed with prawns, shrimp and clams and other seafood munchies. Creme brulee with raspberries for dessert. I'm still stuffed.

you are? well, now you made me hungry.

All because she accidentally clicked on an email.

it was meant to be!

christine  posted on  2007-04-02   18:11:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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