<p>I wonder if the subconscious motivation behind the power shut down was the prospect of having her apply for the OSU scholarship…and not get it. </p>
<p>If the story about the brother with the Stanford student is true, this has to be the worst case scenario for him: brother’s D gets full ride to Stanford and his D doesn’t win the full ride to even OSU. He kept going on about how he thought she was going to turn in a bad application because it was done at the last minute so maybe that was the underlying reason for the sabotage.</p>
<p>Now, D is in the much more stressful situation of having to win substantial scholarship money from one of her reaches. If she does, she will win back her father’s approval. If she doesn’t, ell, I shudder to think. </p>
<p>My hope — if this is a real person and not part of an elaborate internet theater piece with us as audience participation — is that D approaches her GC, who helps her submit a past-deadline app to the OSU scholarship committee. She wins and has a safety net in case the other apps don’t work out.</p>