Yay, college!

My last post summed up my worries about colleges (and whether any would accept me, how to pay for them, etc.) Now I can finally relax.

I recently received an E-Mail from Tulane University (in New Orleans, Louisiana) that said I have been accepted :) ! Yay! That was good news enough...but wait until you read the next paragraph.

Just today, I got the formal letter of acceptance in the mail. I thought nothing of it, having already received the exciting E-Mail, until I opened it and read it. There were two new pieces of information in the letter which I had not previously been told. I was granted the Presidential Scholarship, which comes out to $24,000 per year! That's about half of the tuition and room & board. My financial aid will fill in the rest, so I've basically gotten an offer for all of my expenses paid!

But wait, there's more! I was also invited into the Tulane Honors Program, which according to its web page (http://honors.tulane.edu/) is only offered to very select students!

I'm so excited now. I hadn't realized I was anything really special, but all these offers from the 50th best school in the country (out of 2,618 total universities and colleges) make me wonder. I know MIT is still a much harder school to get into, but my hopes have been lifted, even if only slightly.

-IMP ;) :)