What a funny newsletter we received from the “Electronic Journal”. This is an “electronic diary” used by a couple thousand schools in Russia, from Moscow all the way to the outskirts. And look, they’re offering scholarships to American schools! Let’s start reading.
As they say, “fact check”. Firstly, it turns out they are not offering scholarships, but a chance to get a discount on a scholarship. What a strange school. Amerigo. We google it — it shows that the annual cost is $62,850. We follow the link. On the Amerigo website, the price range is from $40,850-$57,000. That’s still a lot, but okay, schools vary. But they are listed. Let’s go to the first one, Carmel Catholic High School. It has a website, there’s tuition. $12,950 per year. How about that difference? By the way, this is quite a low price for a private school. All the schools in their list are Catholic. It’s a cheaper option for private schooling. Catholic ones average up to $10-15K/year. Right next to me there’s BASIS Mclean, a non-Catholic school, costing $26,600. But they don’t sell with 50% off 🙂 In general, the level of private schools in the US is pretty good compared to public ones, but darn it, marketers write such nonsense. Such marketers.
In the same letter, for some reason they write about the average SAT score — a whopping 1272 points. They write with enthusiasm. Elizaveta Alieva, check this out. That’s where you should have studied! With such scores, one can dream about universities at the level of Temple University (100th place) or perhaps higher, if very lucky or if there’s a lot more than just grades. “Annually, nearly 100% of graduates continue their education at universities, including prestigious ones like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, NYU, Yale…”. Tricky phrase. Just so you know—a perfect SAT score is 1600, and you need at least 1500, if not nearly perfect, to get into Stanford. If the school’s average score is 1272, yet so many get into the “Ivy League”, it means there must be some really studious folks scoring 1000 on the SAT at that school.
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