We celebrate baseball successes here, and I love it. We also hear from so may that academics are key.
So in that spirit, this proud dad is letting y'all know that JP took his ACT (with no prep, because like so many ball players, he's STUBBORN!) and scored a not-unimpressive 32.
In the big scheme of things, that makes THIS dad proud.
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It should make you proud. Congrats to both of you, and mom.
ESPECIALLY mom. Thank you.
... not-unimpressive 32.
I think that's the understatement of they young year so far here at HSBBW.
Mazel tov! Lots of doors are opening, I'm sure.
Congrats to jp24-son....and Mom & Dad! 
I'm impressed! And super happy for Mom & Dad.
Congrats buddy! Let's catch up soon!
BFS.
Nicely done. Congrats.
Oh yeah and Ka Ching.
Awesome ! Your son now qualifies for admission to ANY school in the country. He may want to take a look and see if the the elite high academic schools would be a good fit for him academically and athletically.It would not hurt to take the test one more time and see if he can bump it up a notch or so.Leverage is always a good thing 
Congrats! In a lot of ways, I look at news like that the same as I would hearing he went from 91mph to 95 mph on his fastball. That's the kind of score that opens new doors.
It would not hurt to take the test one more time and see if he can bump it up a notch or so.
Because his mom, my awesome wife, is right where you are Bobby, he'll be taking the prep course and retesting this spring (that stubbornness sometimes hits the REAL wall!).
One of the things we've been dismayed to learn is that schools like Stanford and Rice don't give academic scholarships. With the size of their endowment funds, it doesn't make much sense -- at least to me.
And thank you for the comment.
It would not hurt to take the test one more time and see if he can bump it up a notch or so.
Because his mom, my awesome wife, is right where you are Bobby, he'll be taking the prep course and retesting this spring (that stubbornness sometimes hits the REAL wall!).
One of the things we've been dismayed to learn is that schools like Stanford and Rice don't give academic scholarships. With the size of their endowment funds, it doesn't make much sense -- at least to me.
And thank you for the comment.
I assume you mean merit based scholarships. The same is true of Princeton, Harvard, Yale...There's a good reason. Those schools don't need to try and lure the smarter kids in with $$. These are the schools they will flock to no matter how much they have to pay. Now, what they do give a lot of is need-based $$. If you think about it, it makes sense. The kids with high scores and GPA's and resources will go to an Ivy or a Stanford at full price over a state school with a full scholarship because it's worth the money to have a Harvard diploma. Poorer kids with big scores, on the other hand, would be more likely to land at lesser schools because money isn't just a big factor, it's THE factor. So, if those schools gave merit money, they wouldn't get any better crop of students from the first group than if they don't, but giving need based aid will get the students they otherwise wouldn't get.
That certainly is something to be happy about! Congrats to him
But, like any parent, did you happen to say " hey that's great, just imagine what you would have gotten if you studied or prepped for it?".
That's awesome!
that is awesome, congrats!
Great Job!! And I'm with his mom, I would make mine study and retake, he's only going to go up
Congratulations! That is a great score!
