I generally like to keep this blog pretty low-key, but every once in a while something comes up that makes me want to toot a horn or three. Not for myself, but for some of the kids Merit Academy has helped.
There’s a period of time every year that’s always fraught with tension and anxiety: college admissions. Who’s going to get in where? We fire off a ton of (carefully considered) applications, and then we wait for acceptances (hooray!) or rejections (boo!).
This year, out of many Merit students, I’ve gotten the go ahead from a small sample of 3 to share their names and some of the colleges that accepted them. In no particular order, I want to congratulate Amy Peet, Omar Alhait and Teagan Knight for their hard work and stellar range of acceptances.
Here’s a short list of just some of the colleges Merit students have been accepted to this year: