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NJ.com<\/a>: New Jersey teen accepted into 23 schools, amassing around $1.5M in scholarships<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, I\u2019ve got our first #TRYHARD from outside the State of Georgia, and it does seem a like an interesting case.\u00a0 The sheer number of schools this #TRYHARD got into kind of pales in comparison to all of the seasoned Georgia #TRYHARDs that I\u2019ve documented so far, but notching $1.5M out of 23 schools is definitely a higher cumulative per-school average than everyone else thus far, at $65,217.\u00a0 For context, there was a #TRYHARD or two in Georgia who hit the $1.5M marks, but they were also requiring upwards of 50+ schools in order to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n Interestingly, this article actually gives a little more context than any of the previously covered #TRYHARDs, in terms of some examples of why they\u2019re qualified to be a #TRYHARD, as well as some factual numbers and names, as far as some of the scholarships are concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n $180K to go to Syracuse seems pretty impressive sounding, but I also have to remind myself that this isn\u2019t 1998 when my sister went off to college there, and the cost of tuition has gone up considerably over the last 28 years.\u00a0 If I had to guess, $180K probably covers a year, maybe three semesters, tops, and probably doesn\u2019t include room, board, food and all the other incidental expenses that comes with attending college away from home.<\/span><\/p>\n Our boy is most undoubtedly looking for a free ride outright, as most of #TRYHARDs are, but if I had to guess, he might have to lower his bar in order to do so.\u00a0 Considering he\u2019s claimed to want to stay in the greater New York area, one of the fifty different SUNYs seem like a more likely destination for him.<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u2019s not to say that he doesn\u2019t bring something to the table; aside from the grades, the accolades and extracurriculars, the thing that stands out to me the most is the fact that we have here a kid of obvious Hispanic descent, but he\u2019s a hockey player, and is actually the goalie for his school, and helped win a division championship.<\/span><\/p>\n I admit I don\u2019t follow a tremendous amount of hockey, but I don\u2019t imagine it\u2019s changed that much over the last few years of being pretty much the least diverse sport on the planet when it comes to being rostered by players that aren\u2019t white.\u00a0 I have to imagine this factoid alone should be more than sufficient for a school to want to kill multiple diversity birds with a single stone by accepting a Latino kid who has great grades, lots of honors, and is a hockey goalie on top of it.<\/span><\/p>\n But then again, seeing as how the country has declared war on the letters D, E, and I, maybe some schools are afraid of being too openly accepting of DEI initiatives and will cool on a kid like this.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, hooray for the first #TRYHARD from outside of Georgia.\u00a0 He brings an impressive resume to the table, but he clearly lacks in the bragging game, and racks the aspirations to aim for a school in every single fucking state.\u00a0 I do give him credit for being a Hispanic goalie in hockey, but when the day is over, this #TRYHARD didn\u2019t try hard enough to out-do the other #TRYHARDs that are inevitably going to continue to emerge this #SZN.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NJ.com: New Jersey teen accepted into 23 schools, amassing around $1.5M in scholarships Finally, I\u2019ve got our first #TRYHARD from outside the State of Georgia, and it does seem a like an interesting case.\u00a0 The sheer number of schools this #TRYHARD got into kind of pales in comparison to all of the seasoned Georgia #TRYHARDs … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2025: the Hispanic goalie.. in hockey<\/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":[83,89,58,182,190],"class_list":["post-50500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-racism","tag-sports","tag-tryharding","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500","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=50500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50502,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50500\/revisions\/50502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}