19 July 2010, 7:43 pm
Best success story wins best answer. You don't have to read mines, you can just put up yours if you want. Here is mines: So my nephew recently made me proud and here is his story. He was the talented kid in middle school, made straight A's, highest average in most classes and everything. Then a change in location a bad area made his lose his motivation, not to be racist but he was the bright White kid who ended up going to high school in a bad part of town and often he was picked on. Also many other things happened in my nephew's life, he was not able to do much in his new area, had a loved one pass away and his parent's stress caused them to take their anger out on him. So the straight A student suffered in his first two years of high school, he had a C average. I had a talk with him and told him he better pull his grades up before he ends up crying, so his junior year he had an A average, his senior year he had an A average too but here is what happened. April 1st came and the colleges his friends were accepted into, well those were the colleges he was turned down from, he (the guy with the good reputation) had to spend his years at a local university. The kid was a disappointment, many people always asked him what went wrong and he felt that anger. Well he ended up going to his local state university, maintained a 4.0 GPA there, and during his second year of college he decided to apply as a transfer student and finish his degree somewhere else. He applied to the following: Duke = Accepted Cornell = Accepted UGA (safety) = accepted with full ride Georgia Tech = Accepted UNC Chapel Hill = Accepted Stanford = Rejected Yale = Rejected and MIT = Rejected. Currently he is a third year student at Duke University and I am just so proud of him. He has plans of going to Harvard but I will make sure he does good at Duke, and the other kids in high school are shocked once again and ask themselves "what happened!?".... Read More »
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