<p>D won $13,000 at awards night at our high school. She rec’d local scholarships for $5,000, 1,500, 1,100, 250 and 150. Also a state level award (one from each hs in NY state) for 5,000.</p>
<p>Although she was certainly deserving of these awards, she did not have the competition she should have because many top students did not bother to write the essays necessary to be awarded them.</p>
<p>I played the mean mother and kept track of the deadline for these essays. I insisted she not make social plans the weekend before they were all due until the essays and applications were all complete and ready to be handed into guidance.</p>
<p>The night she won them all she thanked me profusely and said her friends were dumb to not apply. Most of their parents couldn’t figure out why my D won so many and their kids didn’t.</p>