Good Day for Kyle!

[ToTBellHop]

So...I get home today, and go to the mail. What do I see? A big Priority Mail envelope from my...second pick school, St. Lawrence University. So, I open it up, and am accepted (which I predicted). But here's the kicker...THEY LOVED ME...see, there's was an envelope behind my acceptance letter, with FINANCIAL AID AWARD ENCLOSED embossed in gold. So I open it up, and what did they give me? The biggest scholarship on campus! AND MORE! They give me a scholarship for $15000 a year for four years (called the University Scholarship) as well as $6000 in additional scholarships! That's $21000 a year for four years ($84000 total!)!!!! SO KEWL (granted the school costs $34000/year, it's still awesome!)!!!!

 

[The_CEO]

Congrats!!!!! Atleast we know that one of us is going SOME WHERE in life.... Way to go !!!

~ Justin...

 

[kal1484]

CONGRATS!!! I was happy with my 400 dollar one to a music camp....hehehe!

 

[Debbie]

That is fantastic news! Take advantage of it; college was never an option for me.

 

[NowInc]

*looks at stack of unpaid school loan bills*

Nice job!! Take full advantage of it!! Trust me!

 

[TURKEY]

Congratulations! May I recommend taking at least 1 semester off and taking part in the Walt Disney World college program?

 

[Maria]

Originally posted by turkey leg boy
Congratulations! May I recommend taking at least 1 semester off and taking part in the Walt Disney World college program?

Yeah, but only if you don´t jeopardize your huge financial aid by doing it! If you do, then do some other program after you are done with school. My advice only...


Congratulations by the way! :sohappy: :sohappy:

 

[ToTBellHop]

thanks! Problem with the College Program is...I want to go to Vet School, and with their pre-reqs, it'd be hard to find time in Undergrad...incidentally, I'm not even sure I'll take the St. Lawrence offer (!)...I wanna see if someone will give me even MORE money! ~greed in his eyes~ Regardless, it means I'll get to go to SOME private school...it's basically between Cornell and St. Lawrence for me.

 

[Al]

congrats :sohappy:

 

[Luau Cove]

My congratulations, Kyle.
Tell me, Where exactly is St Lawrence?

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[The Mom]

Kyle, that's wonderful! My daughter also got a merit scholarship from one of her "second" choice schools (only about half of yours!). We don't qualify for any sort of financial aid, so her top choices will not be offering any money at all. However, I don't want to push her into a school just because of the money...but $50,000 is tempting! Of course, she could go to a Florida school for free!

 

[Camelot]

Congratulations on the scholarships, Kyle...and Good Luck with Vet School.

 

[ToTBellHop]

thanks again! St. Lawrence is in the "North Country" of New York, in the northern Adirondack Mountain foothills...absolutely BEAUTIFUL in the fall, w/ all the folliage...absolutely FRIGID in the winter...sunny every day in the winter (except when they are getting one of those 8-feet-of-snow-in-one-day days), so it's always perdy up there...but I'd have to plug in my car for it to start...Cornell is in the small town of Ithaca, New York...for all intents and purposes, a college town. It lies next to Cayuga Lake, which is BEAUTIFUL...crystal clear water (not polluted like Lake Ontario). This lake was made during the last Ice Age, as the ice sheets receeded, so it is very long (not too wide), and EXTREMELY deep...much of the water evaporated, so Ithaca is basically built on the side of an VERY steep hill, but it has waterfalls running through the campus, and is also amazing in the fall...not nearly as cold as St. Lawrence. It's an Ivy League school, but it has been dubbed the "blue-collared Ivy", as people are much more down-to-earth...not the arrogant, snotty type that seems to be running Harvard...no offense to any Harvard grads, but I didn't like the atmosphere there...so I picked Cornell (that and the fact that New York State residents get a MASSIVE discount at the Ag and Life Sciences school...whereas out-of-staters pay about $34000/year to go there, I would only pay $22,500!)!

 

[DisneyPhD]

That is great Klye, best of luck.

Wow! is Cornell really warmer then St. Lawarnce? I find that hard to belive (that Cornell is warmner then anywere!) We took a trip to Ithaca back in Dec of 1987 when my husband was considering a post doc chem postion at Cornell. It was a truely beatiful town and campus, but boy was it cold and you aren't kidding about it being on the side of a hill. Very step with all that snow! We skipped the post doc, wasn't ready to move there no matter how beautiful (Michigan is cold, but our family is here and we are used to it.) Also the professer wanted his post doc's to work 60 hours a week for 20,000 a year, I DON'T THINK SO! Anyone that dedicated to chemstry is either nuts or doesn't have a life!

We traveled all the way from Michigan and the guy didn't even buy my husband lunch!

Hope your college days are good ones. Don't pass the offer up at St. Lawrence too fast. Not having debts after college can be ones best assest!

 

[ToTBellHop]

oh...definitely. Personally, I'm enthralled that I get to go to a private school (which St. Lawrence did well to ensure). I mean...let's see...my dad got fired from Kodak on Christmas 2000, and my parents got divorced last summer...so, needless to say, there wasn't much money going into my college education. My grandparents had been like, "you are going to a state school because you can't AFFORD a private school". Well...I seem to have proved THEM wrong! Big personal victory--I certainly won't pass up St. Lawrence's offer until I get all the facts (i.e. offers from all of the schools)...again, it's my second choice school, so I absolutely love the campus. In terms of temperature...the average low in January in Ithaca is about 15. It's about -5 in Canton (where St. Law is)...when it's like that, you SPRINT to class! Anyway, thank you for your encouragement and advice!
Kyle

 

[Luau Cove]

I applied for Columbia and NYU. Hope I'm lucky to enter one of those this summer.

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