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11aliveOnMySide<\/a>: Marietta teen accepted into 52 colleges, amassing at least $1.8M in cumulative scholarship offers<\/span><\/p>\n So I have a tab open with a generic Google query for \u201ccollege accepted\u201d with filters to show me the most recent news.\u00a0 Location is not turned on.\u00a0 Yet all the stories that I\u2019ve come across in regards to #TRYHARDs have all been kids from various Georgia areas, and not just seemingly out of Westlake High like they were highly concentrated from last #SZN.\u00a0 Which is leading me to believe that the whole practice of applying to every single school under the sun for probably free seems to presumably be a very Georgia thing to do, especially seeing as how I have yet to come across a single #TRYHARD story from anywhere outside the state of Georgia yet.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, we have a new #TRYHARD for the #SZN, and what stands out to me for this one is the fact that the chica isn\u2019t from one of the more commonly found #TRYHARD regions, but is actually quite the opposite.\u00a0 Wheeler High School in Marietta is a school that\u2019s not on the south, west or southwestern part of the Metro area, and isn\u2019t just in Marietta, but in East Cobb<\/em> Marietta, where the snobbery is real, but the general performance scores of the schools in the district are above average, generally.<\/span><\/p>\n Frankly, it\u2019s one of the first times I\u2019ve heard of an actual #TRYHARD coming out of a more upscale location, and I\u2019m curious to what the criteria for getting to apply to a gazillion colleges with presumably no concern over application fees is, because if they\u2019re allowing kids from Wheeler to do it, then geographical location isn\u2019t necessarily a deciding factor in this privilege to shoot as many shots as you want.<\/span><\/p>\n But unlike many of reported #TRYHARDs, this one was considerate, and clearly egotistical enough to have a straight up graphic made, because it gives us a little more insight to some of the 52 schools that she was accepted into, because so many of these #TRYHARDs don\u2019t actually disclose it, because as much as they want to brag about getting into 52 schools, they don\u2019t want to brag that 48 of them are like small commuter schools nobody outside of their general locations actually know of.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, among the schools that this particular #TRYHARD got into are basically the entire SEC, with Auburn, Florida, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, Mississippi State (but oddly no Georgia), and then randomly some other Power-5 schools like Clemson, NC State, Oklahoma, Michigan State and Ohio State.<\/span><\/p>\n What seems apparent to me is that with the exceptions of Oklahoma, Michigan State and Ohio State, this girl doesn\u2019t really want to stray too far out of the Southeast in general, seeing as how just about every school she got into is at the very most, like an eight hour drive to, less if flown.\u00a0 But also, of all the aforementioned schools, they\u2019re all notable college football programs, so if I had to guess, this girl really wants to go somewhere with big football cultures, and probably end up becoming an alcoholic at some point in her college career.\u00a0 Even many of the non-Power 5 schools she got into have football programs that some people may have actually heard about, feeding the hypothetical narrative of the importance of football to our subject #TRYHARD over here.<\/span><\/p>\n Anyway, in the grand spectrum of #TRYHARDSZN, this is a solid contender, but if I\u2019m a betting man, no chance at being top #TRYHARD.\u00a0 58 and $1.8M are decent numbers, but it\u2019s still early and the Ivy Leagues haven\u2019t released acceptances yet.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure the #SZN still has a lot of gas left in it, and hopefully we\u2019ll start to see some #TRYHARDs emerge from places outside of the state of Georgia, because this can\u2019t be the only state where they\u2019re all going to 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