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Feels like it\u2019s starting earlier than usual<\/a>: two South Fulton teenagers accepted into 63 and 50 colleges respectively, trying really hard to not humble brag about it<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s apparently already started, that time of year, in which throughout the country there are overachieving high school seniors who begin announcing, as loudly as they can on social media, just how many colleges they have been accepted to.\u00a0 Some aim for the stars and only go for the cream of the crop like just the Ivy Leagues, and usually upper echelon schools like MIT, Johns Hopkins and Stanford, and then there are others who just apply for every school under the sun, as if there were no such thing as application fees.<\/span><\/p>\n And once the acceptances start rolling in, if the number is impressive enough, then onto the internets they go, boasting-not-boasting and humble bragging about how many schools they\u2019ve been accepted into, with the hopes that some media outlet catches wind of it and puts any sort of spotlight onto them at all.<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, it can\u2019t be ignored the dollar amounts of all these scholarships love to be extrapolated and added together, so that there can be somewhat of a tangible number to implement a degree of success and value of their accomplishments as a whole, and regardless of if and when they inevitably choose to go to whichever school is giving a full ride, no matter how lesser-heralded it may be, doesn\u2019t change the fact that they put themselves into a position where they could brag about how many schools, simply said yes, you may attend our prestigious institution of higher education if you are willing to pay our egregious costs for credit hours, books, boarding and other bullshit expenditures.<\/span><\/p>\n But let\u2019s get #TRYHARDSZN2024 off with a bang, with these two teens in my old stomping grounds of South Fulton county, which is the area\u2019s PC way of lumping together the hood sections of the Southwestern region of the Metro Atlanta area.\u00a0 But despite the fact that when watching the video in the article, there appears to be a whole legion of tryhards that have been accepted into 10-15+ colleges, these two particular teens who have hit 63 and 50 acceptances get the spotlight as being the biggest tryhards of the tryhards.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, most of the schools that I was able to catch in the article are mostly smaller school, HBCUs, and schools nobody has really ever heard of, there were some notable Power-5 schools that have shown interest in them like Michigan State, Iowa, Kansas, Oregon and Mississippi State to name a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n But the thing is that these are still merely just acceptances and definitely not necessarily full rides to any of them, because obviously the cost of college, especially if they dare to go to one out of state would be like a gozillion dollars that they\u2019d have to sign their souls away for in order to get student loans and become victims to the same predatory scam that millions of other Americans have already fallen prey to.\u00a0 The result of such is the fact that in spite of getting accepted into 113 schools between the two, they\u2019re still going to go to whomever is willing to give them a free ride, which in this case appears to be Morehouse or Howard.<\/span><\/p>\n And this is where I kind of become annoyed by the whole idea of kids applying to every school under the sun, because it doesn\u2019t take a genius to see a pattern in what is going on with every single #TRYHARDSZN, where its always entirely minorities, primarily the black community that seemingly is able to apply to 113 schools at no cost, and when they inevitably get into a vast majority of them because Affirmative Action is a flawed concept, they\u2019re essentially holding countless applicant spots hostage while they take the time to soak in their success of getting way more acceptances than the average not-black high school senior probably applies to schools.<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine someone who really wants to go to Oregon or Mississippi State, and they get waitlisted.\u00a0 While some kids on the other side of the country are basically holding those spot hostage for months while they\u2019re running victory laps over how many cumulative schools have given them entry.\u00a0 And these kids ultimately end up enrolling into their safety schools and their B-options as a result of not wanting to wait, or being forced to decide, and it fucks them up.<\/span><\/p>\n I applied to three colleges my senior year; the application fees exceeded $300, and this was in 1999, so that\u2019s probably like $550 today.\u00a0 Naturally my parents paid for those, and in hindsight it was all for naught seeing as how I gave up on college very early on, but it\u2019s no secret that impoverished kids that go to underachieving schools do have the one advantage in that they seemingly are allowed to apply to as many schools as they want, as long as they\u2019re not complete academic fuckups with any criminal backgrounds.<\/span><\/p>\n The worst part is that there\u2019s a feeling I get that the schools themselves are encouraging this sort of exploitation of a system simply meant to encourage more impoverished kids to go to college and try to elevate their positions in life.\u00a0 Just looking in the background of this video, the senior hall is filled with student portraits with well more than 1-3 school acceptances, and in one frame I paused, I counted 44, 35, 25, 21 and 16 as other tryhards who clearly were gunning for the chance to be top tryhards of Westlake High.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While watching a K-drama with mythical wife, there was a scene where it showed two characters having gone to high school together.\u00a0 And in Korea, much like lots of other Asian cultures, have no problem in school subtly putting every kid on blast by posting academic rankings in inconspicuous places for everyone to see and size everyone else up.\u00a0 Personally, I think it\u2019s a good way to try and breed some inspiration from underachievers to see how their peers are doing and want to elevate themselves, but mythical wife is a firm opponent of such a notion, because such public pressure is what leads a lot of American kids to depression, self-loathing and eventually harm and suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n But frankly, shit like senior wall at Westlake High is basically the same thing, and I can\u2019t imagine how much it sucks to be any kid at the school who doesn\u2019t get into the school(s) that they wanted to get into, or those who are not eligible for free applications, and therefore don\u2019t get the chance to get into 50+ schools.\u00a0 If I\u2019m some of the kids on the senior wall who have only 1-3 acceptances to their name, and they\u2019re like Georgia State, Kennesaw State and Georgia Southern, while Mr. 63 and Mr. 50 are \u201comg touching the ground\u201d with the number of placards they\u2019re putting up, I\u2019m going mental.<\/span><\/p>\n One of my friends said it best that the schools themselves are completely fine at creating this tokenism of their students, because it brings the school some spotlight, and whether that\u2019s good for their careers, egos or the general political game behind the scenes in the school board, they\u2019re fine exploiting a busted system.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, much like the general downhill feeling that society is constantly rolling directionally, I have a feeling that if I took the time to put like a google alert for high school kids getting accepted into an egregious number of colleges, my writing backlog would fill up to depressing amounts in a heartbeat, and then I\u2019ll want to kill myself for even entertaining the idea of making a #TRYHARDSZN2024, because I think there\u2019s going to be a lot of them this year, in Georgia and everywhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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