Any advice for a poor but intellegent girl?

pafather
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:11:52 +0000

Stockmarket,

I do not think GOP involvement is any problem.

My son was the state chairman of Teenage Republicans in our state for two years, and he wrote his main college essay on how much he improved in canvassing from door-to-door from his first time until his senior year. He interviewed at a number of schools for scholarships, and ultimately decided to attend USC on a Trustee’s Scholarship, but at every school where he interviewed they told him they LOVED the essay, even though many of them were quite liberal. I think passion and accomplishment is far more important than ideology.

My son received some questions during scholarship interviews related to politics, but he was confident in his views and did not come across like a know-it-all or as obnoxious and condescending. He knew quite well that they may disagree with him, but it would have been silly to try to change his stance in the middle of an interview.