Salsa: 17-year old Southern California girl accepted into 15 universities, among them a free ride to Harvard
As the title to this post might indicate, this #TRYHARD doesn’t hesitate to throw a little bit of shade while simultaneously humblebragging about her achievement-worthy number of acceptances into many well-reputable schools. However, unlike a lot of tryhards out there, this one actually acknowledges the fact that she had taken a few L’s in the sense that she had been waitlisted and rejected by some schools:
I didn’t think I was going to get into any of the top colleges because I had been waitlisted and rejected a couple days before and also day of,” Figueroa said. “So, I was like, there’s no way I could get into Harvard or anything like that.”
Naturally, quotes like this are brought to you by the fact that not only did she get accepted into Harvard, but she also managed to secure a free ride as well. Considering her mind-bending 4.7 GPA and her extracurriculars, it shouldn’t be surprising that she got in, but getting a free ride is an impressive feat in itself.
Sometimes I think Harvard dangles free rides to kids further away, with the hopes that they don’t take the bait, and they the school can still try to use it as a leverage play with donors, boosters and those who hold the purse strings to cry poor, that kids aren’t taking free rides anymore because they presumably not offering up enough incentive to get kids to pick fucking Harvard among other schools in the nation.
What I am a little curious about is what schools did turn her down, considering that aside from Harvard, some of the other schools she did get into were Brown and Columbia, two other Ivies, as well as Stanford, Duke and Berkeley and a whole bunch of Cali-based safety schools which obviously she won’t be going to. It would be funny if it were schools like Georgia Tech or USC or Oregon State that rejected her.
But the obnoxious thing about this particular #TRYHARD is how insufferably wishy-washy she’s trying to sound, pretending like she’s deliberating where she’s going to pick, as if she were LeBron James or some highly-touted high school football recruit grandstanding some selection day show for where they want to go to school:
I didn’t think I was going to get into Harvard so my dream school was Columbia and I honestly think I’m preferring Harvard now, so I think I might go there instead,”
It’s like bitch please, not only did you get into Harvard, you got a free ride; we all know what the answer is going to be, especially if Columbia or Stanford isn’t giving you a free ride so just shut the fuck up and stop humblebragging, because it’s coming off as insufferable and obnoxious.
If there’s one thing that remains consistent between the different tiers of #TRYHARDS, it’s that being tryhards always equates into being entitled to being obnoxiously humblebraggy about their accomplishments, to the degree where it seems like that’s solely the reason why they applied to so many goddamn schools in the first place.
