<p>I want to use my AP national scholar award to spite the spoiled, pretentious yuppie preppy high school district in the neighbouring town. (Why the vendetta? I myself was once schooled in that district, from kindergarten to early middle school. The children [95% white] are some of the most conceited and racially bigoted people I have met, although the bigotry is a cultural one, i.e. it’s not Jim Crow’ish. The adults’ bigotry is a little bit subtler and under the surface, but still very vicious.)</p>
<p>If my instinct is correct, the rich school district, despite having 3 times more funding per capita than us, besides the fact that 96% of their graduates go on to four-year institutions (my high school’s rate: 47%), despite that nearly all their students’ parents have substantially higher household incomes than us, despite all their students going on to institutions that appear on CC’s “top institutions” list (their number: 8 to 15 out of 150; our number: 2 / 213, excluding the 67 that dropped out), despite all their indulgent and decadent European summer vacations, none of their students will have clinched the award this year. </p>
<p>I mean, I know on a national scale, AP national scholar is nothing, especially compared to state scholar, and plenty of CC’ers get them, but if my information is correct, not even their valedictorian, who they had to flash through all the local newspapers ("oh look at me! I’m so fly! I’m taking all these AP courses! And I’m a member of that oh-so-exclusive clique of AP science students!), and who I went to elementary school with (and whom I never thought was that into science, until of course her parents’ culture made it hip), will have gotten it.</p>
<p>Okay, I know I’m sounding a bit psychotic, and I should have probably put this on PostSecret instead, but as a college first-year, I’m not waiting for my AP award for anything related to academic recognition, although it looks nice on a resume. No, I’m doing it to conclude eight long years of waiting for socioeconomic, racial, and cultural revenge.</p>