My daughter is not a chip off the old block.

Rivrrat

My daughter just nailed her 2nd consecutive qtr of straight A's as a HS freshman.

She got 2 B's in her first qtr, and she's been on a tear ever since. She even missed two weeks of school with bronchitis this past qtr. Her goal is to get an academic scholarship.

I barely saw an A, unless it was in a shop class or PE.:p (well history too)

janmike

Congrats to your daughter - well done!. It's neat to be a proud parent. Enjoy.

dorokusai

Nice. Get her to start boxing and you have a contendah!

ben62670

Whoo Hoo. I love to hear it when my girls are doing good! Congrats.

daboyz

Congrats!!! Do something nice for that great young lady you got.

Phasearray

It's always the smart nerdy high school girls who goes nuts when they start college

ben62670

Phasearray wrote: »

It's always the smart nerdy high school girls who goes nuts when they start college

No thats the ones who didn't make it to collage.

SBrown712

Congrats. I don't remember A's in my high school. I think the highest grade we had was a C.

wingnut4772

That's terrific. She has a great future ahead of her with that kind of discipline.

engtaz

Congrats

engtaz

shadowofnight

Thats great for you both

Mine was an A student as well , then kinda drifted down one semester as a sophmore in HS. At that age, dad putting the hammer down would likely have a more negative then positive result...so I just said " I guess you dont want that new Yamaha MX M/C for the summer then "

It worked She got the M/C

shack

Rivrrat wrote: »

My daughter just nailed her 2nd consecutive qtr of straight A's as a HS freshman.

She got 2 B's in her first qtr, and she's been on a tear ever since. She even missed two weeks of school with bronchitis this past qtr. Her goal is to get an academic scholarship.

I barely saw an A, unless it was in a shop class or PE.:p (well history too)

Your daughter should be commended for a good job and encouraged to keep it up!

I will say from experience that the academic scholarships are based on two factors somewhat unrelated to grades. Need and ACT/SAT scores. If your child has excellent grades and can prove need there are quite a few scholarships available. If she scores very high on the tests there are quite a few scholarships available.

My oldest graduated from HS with a 4.0 and 4th in her class of 400+ students. This was without taking any of the so called advanced courses where one can actually get higher than a 4.0 towards the GPA. She never made a B. All of the schools she wanted to attend only required the ACT so she never took the SAT. Her highest ACT score was a 26. She was turned down for countless scholarships because her test score was not high enough and I made too much money. She did receive our state lottery scholarship of $3,000 per year that everyone with an 18 ACT score and 3.0 GPA gets. One school offered her partial tuition if she worked for the school 6-9 hours a week (not a bad deal). She was very disappointed that she worked her **** off to get great grades and lots of her friends were getting scholarships that goofed off more and didn’t work as hard because of “need”. One of the schools actually told me that with her grades, if we would emancipate her (basically kick her out and offer NO support) the school would pay for tuition, room, board, books, supplies and spending money. We of course did not do that. It has all worked out though. She will be graduating in about a month with a degree in Architectural Interior Design with a 3.85 GPA.

My youngest maintained about a 3.8 GPA in HS with a 25 ACT score and received NO scholarship offers (of course the state lottery scholarship was available)…again thanks to dad making too much money. She got a couple of athletic scholarship offers but she decided to be a full time student…with a life (as she put it).

It doesn’t bother me much…because I can and did afford to pay for their education. It did bother them some because they felt they had worked as hard or harder than others and received little “reward” for their efforts in the way of scholarships. If nothing else it would have been nice as recognition for their accomplishments. I told them it is the way of our society and their “reward” and “recognition” will come later in life as they use the skills, knowledge and work ethic it took to attain those grades.

Again, good luck to you daughter. Convince her to work hard, make good grades and start now taking lots of "practice" ACT/SAT tests.;)

Rivrrat

Thanks all for your comments, I am a proud dad.

Phasearray wrote: »

It's always the smart nerdy high school girls who goes nuts when they start college

You wouldn't think she's a smart nerdy girl.

She plays soccer for me two seasons a year, and I use her as a field enforcer due to her naturally nasty disposition. I suppose in that instance she is a chip of the old block.:p

Congrats!!! Do something nice for that great young lady you got.

Every time she makes honor roll, we take out to a celebratory dinner at a resturaunt of her choice.....I'm getting really tired of her picking the Red lobster.;)

schwarcw

Congrats! You and your daghter have a lot to be proud of. Good luck on a bright future.

dragon1952

Congrats! That's awesome! Tell her we're proud of her.

Sherardp

schwarcw wrote: »

Congrats! You and your daghter have a lot to be proud of. Good luck on a bright future.

plus 1, job well done.

petrym

Rivrrat,
I think our daughters should meet. Mine is a senior this year and heading off to Simpson College this fall. She's kept all A's, taken almost every advanced and AP class she could, though she did take a music class this year that kept her from being #1 in her class because the 9 ranked above her didn't take music. She got a overall 32 on her ACT last year, she retook it and got a 31, but upped her Science category to 34 and Math to 33. She got a half-tuition off scholarship from Simpson, pretty good, but half of insane is still ridiculous.

Rivrrat

petrym wrote: »

Rivrrat,
I think our daughters should meet. Mine is a senior this year and heading off to Simpson College this fall. She's kept all A's, taken almost every advanced and AP class she could, though she did take a music class this year that kept her from being #1 in her class because the 9 ranked above her didn't take music. She got a overall 32 on her ACT last year, she retook it and got a 31, but upped her Science category to 34 and Math to 33. She got a half-tuition off scholarship from Simpson, pretty good, but half of insane is still ridiculous.

Good on you, you're doing something right. You should be very proud of her accomplishments.

I'm skeeered of what college is going to do to my retirement fund.:eek:

I really just hope my daughter can keep it up, or at least keep trying through HS. She starts honors english next year.

tonyb

Ahhh.....don't worry about it.After you spend all that coin to put her thru school,she'll fall in love,get married and want kids.....hopefully in that order.

Rivrrat

tonyb wrote: »

Ahhh.....don't worry about it.After you spend all that coin to put her thru school,she'll fall in love,get married and want kids.....hopefully in that order.

WRONG.... :mad:

We've invested all this time in our daughters to support us in our old age.:D

tonyb

Rivrrat wrote: »

WRONG.... :mad:

We've invested all this time in our daughters to support us in our old age.:D

I have this vision......of the look on your future son-in-laws face as you daughter says to him..." Honey,dad's going to come live with us.":)