Corey Hokanson | February 12, 2009
"More College Stuff?"
I'm sitting in my fourth period civics class when my phone goes off. No big deal, I had it on vibrate (I always do). It was the message that was weird. My mom texted me to tell me to call her ASAP. (Note: My mother is the librarian at the grade school in our district, so if she wanted me to call her during school hours, it must have been important... right?)
Civics gets over and I walk out of the class, already dialing her number into my phone. She answers. I expect some sort of "your brother got hurt at school. I need you to pick him up" message. Nope. She'd been in contact with our school district's TAG (Talented-and-Gifted) coordinator, and was freaking out. I hadn't applied to enough colleges. Done enough scholarships. Heck, apparently I didn't even have a back-up plan. Which is weird. I've applied to MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, Tulane, and Oregon Institute of Technology. If Tulane and OIT aren't back-ups, idk what is. I've already been offered admission and scholarships. Yet it wasn't enough for my mom.
I was three minutes late to my Spanish class. The TAG lady wanted me to get transcripts and other forms from my counselor, so she could call colleges whose deadlines had already passed to see if they'd still let me in.
After school wasn't much better. I spent all night working with my mom and dad on more college applications and scholarship applications. I've now applied to Westminster, where I can get another guaranteed full ride scholarship. Perhaps the funniest thing is they were all calm about college until yesterday.
Yesterday I received confirmation that I am now a National Merit Finalist. Somehow, the fact that I'm in the top 15,000 people in the country for PSAT scores means I'm less likely to get into MIT or afford school at all, so today I got to do more college stuff! YAY....
Moral of the story? DON'T WIN BIG AWARDS when your parents will freak out.... Not really. I don't think there is a moral. Wait! Yes there is. Just because a scholarship site has hundreds of scholarships doesn't mean you're eligible for all of them ( I was eligible for 1).
Happy Hacking and Trolling
Corey
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Responses To This Entry:
Haha nice dude.
Yeah, parents tend to trip out on stuff like that. I didn't apply to too many places either. If you're shooting high *Coff Coff MIT Coff Coff* Then you'll definitely land places like Tulane and Harvey Mudd. So then there's no need to apply to too many places (because that's more registration fees you have to pay -.-)
Posted by: Richard '13 on February 12, 2009 11:02 AM
I only applied to one "safety" school since I was a definite acceptant there (Texas has this weird 10% rule..) so I just focused all my energies on applying for high-caliber schools, haha.
Posted by: Vivi '12 on February 12, 2009 12:02 PM
Yeah. Me too. My parents just freaked out yesterday and decided that wasn't enough.
I already am in at tulane with a $27,000 scholarship.
Posted by: Corey on February 12, 2009 01:02 PM
aw, corey. i've applied to all high caliber schoools with no safeties. lol. But really, weird to ask you to keep applying to more schools. lol.
Posted by: Sheila '13 on February 12, 2009 08:02 PM
I was kind of saved by the whole MIT thing because my backup stunk. Actually, I probably just would have taken a gap year. I don't think that it would have turned out all the bad. I sometimes wish that I took a gap year as it is, just because there is so much that I would like to do or to have done, not all of which required a university in order to be able to do it. The more that I think about it, the better and better the idea of a gap year seems to be. Alas, that time has gone.
Posted by: Lyla '11 on February 12, 2009 11:02 PM
I'm so happy you guys are reading the blogs and liking them and commenting on them :)
Posted by: Ahana on February 13, 2009 12:02 AM
Corey
I don't know what to say.... You're amazing. You'll succeed. You are clearly a teen who is looking past the narrow world of 'high schol drama.' Proud of you and will enjoy watching the next years unfold.
Debbie Nash
Posted by: debra nash on February 14, 2009 11:02 AM
