{"id":51369,"date":"2026-07-16T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51369"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:05:22","slug":"finally-some-tryhard-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51369","title":{"rendered":"Finally, some #TRYHARD answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ABC7 Chicago<\/a>: Gary, Indiana teen with \u201cperfect 4.0 GPA\u201d accepted into 126 colleges, amassing $9M in cumulative scholarship offers<\/span><\/p>\n

Gary, Indiana must\u2019ve never heard about Westlake High, because 126\/$9M seems kind of mid in the grand spectrum of the #TRYHARD game.\u00a0 Also, I put perfect 4.0 GPA in quotes above, because not long after discovering the Florida nerd with the 11.99 GPA, the whole concept of grade point averages has been blown out the door, and every number warrants questioning and examinations that nobody wants to have to do and it sucks to be a egghead teenager today in that regard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, not that I really wanted to get back in the swing of documenting teen #TRYHARDs left and right like I did that one year, this particular story came of interest to me for one specific reason: it appears to have shed a little light on the whole #TRYHARD game, namely potentially answering one of the biggest questions I had about the game as a whole itself: how are all these kids able to apply to so many colleges without seemingly having to worry about those pesky things called, application fees<\/strong><\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, there\u2019s a site\/service, CommonApp, where there are 1,100 schools on the platform, so it\u2019s apparently easy to make a profile and fling it out like Gambit<\/a> to any and all schools available; many of which seemingly have no, or are willing to waive, those pesky application fees.\u00a0 I don\u2019t care to dig into just which schools are on the platform, but imma guess many notable and nameworthy ones, based on the cache of schools that have been mentioned by #TRYHARDs throughout the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Welp, that answers a lot of questions I\u2019ve always had in regard to how these #TRYHARDs are applying to hundreds of schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, before I wrap on this post, a few things I want to clown on:<\/span><\/p>\n

[They had] a perfect 4.0 grade point average and is ranked second in [their] class.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second?\u00a0 If they\u2019re ranked second in the class, what does first place look like?\u00a0 And why aren\u2019t they making the news?<\/span><\/p>\n

[They] did have to write about 30 essays to go with some of the applications. But [they] says it was worth it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

30 essays?\u00a0 Oh the humanity!\u00a0 Oh the strain, the labor, the exhausting ordeal!\u00a0 Lmao, I could knock out 30 essays in a day, but then again, there\u2019s nobody I know who has been writing as much and as long as I have, and even Jerry Seinfeld probably has taken more breaks<\/a> than I have.\u00a0 But if 30 essays was the cost for not having to pay application fees, I would\u2019ve written 100 to not have had to pay for the 3 colleges I paid to apply to.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in true #TRYHARD fashion, I can\u2019t seem to find any intel on where they actually picked.\u00a0 This article originally dropped in March, and decision day was back in May, but no information on where they ultimately chose, which goes to show that once the initial news of #TRYHARDing breaks, frankly nobody cares what happens afterward.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABC7 Chicago: Gary, Indiana teen with \u201cperfect 4.0 GPA\u201d accepted into 126 colleges, amassing $9M in cumulative scholarship offers Gary, Indiana must\u2019ve never heard about Westlake High, because 126\/$9M seems kind of mid in the grand spectrum of the #TRYHARD game.\u00a0 Also, I put perfect 4.0 GPA in quotes above, because not long after discovering … Continue reading Finally, some #TRYHARD answers<\/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":[100,60,83,52,25,182],"class_list":["post-51369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-ncaa","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-technology","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51369","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=51369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51371,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51369\/revisions\/51371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}