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KGTV<\/a>: High schooler from Torrey Pines accepted into 63 different colleges, amassing $3M in cumulative scholarships<\/span><\/p>\n $3 million bones from 63 acceptances; an average scholarship value of $47,619 isn\u2019t bad, but in the grand spectrum of the #TRYHARD game, is fairly pedestrian in comparison to some of the #TRYHARDs that have already emerged this #SZN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, I\u2019m liking that either Google and news outlets are either being lazy and not reporting, or the possibility that #TRYHARDING isn\u2019t as wrapped up as it used to be in previous years, and there just aren\u2019t as many insufferable #TRYHARDs this year as in years prior, because that\u2019s less stuff for me to write about, as if I didn\u2019t put myself in this situation wanting to write about all the #TRYHARDs of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n After some of the #TRYHARDs that have already been documented, this kid really isn\u2019t that exceptional.\u00a0 His academic haul is still pretty good, but it\u2019s hard to keep up in the game, when there are some who have doubled his scholarship dollars, and\/or number of acceptances, like the one who could boast about having an acceptance from every single one of the 50 United States.<\/span><\/p>\n Normally, I\u2019m at the point in the #SZN where I just want to skip writing about all of the #TRYHARDs once the truly exceptional ones have come out, but in this case, it\u2019s the article itself that I want to nitpick about and provide me with some inspiration to blather some words out:<\/span><\/p>\n A graduating senior from Torrey Pines High School has accomplished what some might consider impossible \u2014 earning over $3 million in scholarships.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Impossible?\u00a0 $3M?\u00a0 I know Torrey Pines, California is basically akin to paradise, but these so-called journalists need to look at the world outside of their own, because not only is $3M possible, there\u2019s already been at least one teen who has amassed $6M in scholarships this #SZN alone.<\/span><\/p>\n The lack of credentials and failure to name drop any of the acceptances other than the one he selected lends to imply that many of them weren\u2019t very prestigious or impressive, and comes off as one of those #TRYHARDs that actually didn\u2019t #TRYHARD as much as they were just good at filling out online forms and getting what I\u2019m guessing are free applications.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s also funny to me that someone in this part of California is even in a position to need to be applying to every school under the sun, because that chunk of land slightly north of San Diego is home to some gorgeous earth, that I also imagine probably costs the arms and legs of several generations\u2019 worth of wealth to be living there.\u00a0 I have a hard time believing that there are people who actually live out there who are in positions to be needing scholarships, but I suppose while I\u2019ve been thinking about money fervently over the last few weeks, the wealthy don\u2019t stay wealthy by being frivolous, they\u2019re usually wealthy because they\u2019re often times good at finding other people to pick up the check instead of themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever though, good on this #TRYHARD and I use that term lightly on account of comparing him to others in the game, for getting accepted into a buttload of schools, and of course picking a fairly mid one to actually go to, in Howard University.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be an interesting culture shock to go from the vast picturesque paradise of Torrey Pines to going to school in the dump of Washington DC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KGTV: High schooler from Torrey Pines accepted into 63 different colleges, amassing $3M in cumulative scholarships $3 million bones from 63 acceptances; an average scholarship value of $47,619 isn\u2019t bad, but in the grand spectrum of the #TRYHARD game, is fairly pedestrian in comparison to some of the #TRYHARDs that have already emerged this #SZN.\u00a0 … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2025: There\u2019s a bigger world outside of California<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,100,45,83,52,182,49],"class_list":["post-50531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-tryharding","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50533,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50531\/revisions\/50533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}