Anonymous wrote:Yawn, all kids from rich suburban high schools

You clearly are unaware of the school that the DC winner came from.
And I am not going to spend the time to fill you in.

Yawn, all kids from rich suburban high schools

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Anonymous wrote:I knew one. Great kid and perfect stats. Filthy rich. Half Mexican though so perhaps that was helpful in getting to the final selection.

Couldn't be the perfect stats or even that he was filthy rich. Had to his 1/2 Mexican part? Ok.

Only if you’re looking for a fight, I guess? The point is that ALL the kids had perfect stats and they have to have some way to stand out. Diversity is one way to stand out. And I think being filthy rich would not help in a scholarship competition though it surely helps in many others ways.

There was a finalist (top 250) from BCC but didn't end up in the final 150 winners, great guy I've heard.

Anonymous wrote:I scrolled through the list and one high school in New Orleans had two winners!

A school in Florida had 3 winners! It's one of the top private schools in the country though

Anonymous wrote:I knew one. Great kid and perfect stats. Filthy rich. Half Mexican though so perhaps that was helpful in getting to the final selection.

Couldn't be the perfect stats or even that he was filthy rich. Had to his 1/2 Mexican part? Ok.

Anonymous wrote:I know this year's DC winner. She is incredible.

Nice, do you know where she's headed?

Anonymous wrote:Never heard of it. Do you apply? Nominated?

Applications are open to everyone, it's obviously extremely competitive though so if you're a middling student without any hooks there's basically 0 chance

I scrolled through the list and one high school in New Orleans had two winners!

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Anonymous wrote:Those are the top schools for winners? They must be top students, what does it take to win?

They basically pick 150 of the best all-around students in the country, similar to what USA Today used to do with All-Academic Teams in the country. This year there were 91,000+ applicants to get the final 150 winners - an acceptance rate of 0.15%.

The year my son competed they picked almost exclusively students of color.

I doubt this - Coke is known for making scholarship and hiring decisions independent of socioeconomic or racial characteristics

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Anonymous wrote:I knew one. Great kid and perfect stats. Filthy rich. Half Mexican though so perhaps that was helpful in getting to the final selection.

Nice, where did they end up? Sounds like H or P material

In state fiagship with a full academic scholarship. I assume they used the coke money for housing.

I know this year's DC winner. She is incredible.

Never heard of it. Do you apply? Nominated?

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Anonymous wrote:I knew one. Great kid and perfect stats. Filthy rich. Half Mexican though so perhaps that was helpful in getting to the final selection.

Nice, where did they end up? Sounds like H or P material

Or maybe they just had perfect stats.

Anonymous wrote:I knew one. Great kid and perfect stats. Filthy rich. Half Mexican though so perhaps that was helpful in getting to the final selection.

Nice, where did they end up? Sounds like H or P material