![\"\"](\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/slickster_oversong.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Yahoo<\/a>: Westlake High School senior accepted to 155 colleges, with at least one from every single one of the 50 United States, and has accumulated over $6M in scholarship offers<\/span><\/p>\n Welp, just when I was thinking about how Westlake High hadn\u2019t produced a #TRYHARD yet, here they come to join the fray, guns ablaze.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the school itself doesn\u2019t seem to be concerned about absolutely anything other than raising kids to be fixated and obsessed with applying to as many colleges as humanly possible, so that they the kids and the school can insufferably brag about their success rates, and effectively cockblock a metric fuckton of other kids throughout the country who will be inevitably be put on waiting lists while all these attention hounds make their decisions like they think they\u2019re LeBron James.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, Georgia teen from the seemingly most notorious college application factory in the nation, 155 acceptances, and $6M in cumulative scholarships so far.\u00a0 Sounds impressive, but when you do the basic average there, we\u2019re looking at $38K per acceptance.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s not a flat $38K being offered by every single acceptance, but the reality is that some of the higher-tiered schools probably haven\u2019t offered anything remotely close to a full ride, and if a full ride is what chica is looking for, she better be prepared to be going to Florida A&M or Howard, and not any of the Power-5 schools she probably got into.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And let\u2019s not assume she made any of the Ivies, because if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned about #TRYHARD culture, is that if you\u2019ve been accepted into an Ivy, that name is ensured to be mentioned, early in the article no less.<\/span><\/p>\n I had a moment when writing about the last few #TRYHARDs about why I\u2019m taking time to pick on these kids, seeing as how they\u2019re really just trying to get a free ride to whatever college is willing to give them one.\u00a0 But this queen bee #TRYHARD is a reminder of why I started writing about them in the first place, because it feels like they\u2019re doing what they do for all the wrong reasons, prioritizing attention-seeking and the right to brag and boast ahead of actually giving a fuck about their educations when the opportunity to grasp 15 minutes of internet fame is on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n I mean seriously, 155 schools is one thing, but it\u2019s very apparent that the real coup de grace here for this chica is simply the ability to say that she got into a school from every single one of the 50 states.\u00a0 Because I have a hard time believing that any teen from the southside of Atlanta would have any remote interest in attending a school in Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana or any other flyover state where the mortality rate of black people is probably noticeably lower than it would be in any actual civilized metropolitan area in the country alternatively.\u00a0 I refuse to believe that there\u2019s actual interest in any schools from any of those remote parts of the country, and that the sole goal was to check off gaining an acceptance in those states.<\/span><\/p>\n The University of Alaska, Fairbanks was mentioned as an acceptance, and a quick Google search has them ranked at 635 out of 650 accredited American colleges, so big win there.\u00a0 Hawaii isn\u2019t mentioned at all, but I\u2019m going to guess that the acceptance from that state is probably along the lines of the University of American Samoa from Better Call Saul<\/em>, or some other extremely low-difficulty school.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s funny when I think about it, because although she got 155 acceptances, I have to wonder how many rejections she got.\u00a0 That\u2019s one thing that all of these #TRYHARD stories fail to mention, unless they have an abnormally high success rate, and they brag about having gotten into like 50 schools out of 50 applications, but there was no such context here.<\/span><\/p>\n And as is often times the case, despite the fact that they might have over 100+ acceptances, in the end, they\u2019re inevitably going to go to some generally low-tier school, mostly because of the fact that the most free-est ride is going to come from there.\u00a0 And despite the fact that this #TRYHARD wants to become a bigwig pharmacist, her front runner schools are Florida A&M, Howard and THE Ohio State.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing wrong with phishing for a free ride, but I do think it sucks for all the kids throughout the country who is put on a waitlist on account of all these attention-seekers just trying to amass acceptances and scholarship dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n But anyway, it comes as no surprise that the de facto front runner of #TRYHARDSZN2025 is a kid out of Westlake High, and the bar has been set extremely high now.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to take some real Ivy League #TRYHARDs to gain some consideration over this one, because 155\/$6M is going to be hard to surpass, but it is still extremely early in the #SZN, so never say never.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo: Westlake High School senior accepted to 155 colleges, with at least one from every single one of the 50 United States, and has accumulated over $6M in scholarship offers Welp, just when I was thinking about how Westlake High hadn\u2019t produced a #TRYHARD yet, here they come to join the fray, guns ablaze.\u00a0 It\u2019s … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2025: Meet the front runner<\/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":[100,83,143,8,52,156,182,49],"class_list":["post-50482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-owned","tag-social-media","tag-tryharding","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50484,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50482\/revisions\/50484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}