Past National Merit Finalists

dmd77
Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:02:58 +0000

Toneranger: my son went to college at the end of his junior year; his safety school was to stay in high school. He might have qualified for merit aid, but not need-based aid. We had been struggling to get him to work in school and had found that he always worked harder (and enjoyed it more) when the work was more challenging; even at MIT, he didn’t always find the work as challenging as he would have liked. I think he would have found any other school too easy–and slacked off. (As it was, he started a business and worked twenty hours a week (sometimes even for money) while he was an undergrad, and still graduated with a respectable GPA.)