Davidson College

has been attending Yadkin Valley Regional Career Academy. This would entail having to begin college classes my Sophomore year of high school. This also means that I have to leave most of my friends at my old school. Who did I consult? How did the good overweigh the bad? Why did I decide to apply for Valley? When I first began to think about my future I always thought I would be someone at Central Davidson High School. I had no idea that I could transfer to a different school, or that I would…

with the only way they will be able to afford college. Also, to get a scholarship, they have to have good grades. When teachers have problems in class with a student, whether it be grades or discipline, a lot of the time the coach is the first person they go to. Coaches are the best form of discipline for any Davidson 3 student; no one wants to run laps…

should all earn a four-year degree, or possibly higher. This obsession with education has created a problem in that college degrees are becoming less valuable and more like high school diplomas, resulting in more people going to graduate school. If this pattern of sending everyone to college continues, a doctorate degree will…

and meals, with the hope that when it’s all said and done, some actual studying or homework will be done. Many people would argue that college student-athletes are normal students. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Most college student-athletes struggle to get gas money to visit family and don’t have enough money to buy extra food and resources.(Dodd) College football programs do not respect how much time their athletes put into their program, which is why football…

The WDHS scholarship committee should select me as their nominee for these scholarships because as a driven student, I devote myself to successfully take advantage of the opportunities these scholarships will offer me. I am a well rounded student who goes above and beyond on everything I undertake, whether it be academics, athletics, extracurriculars, leadership, or service. While I am a high-achieving student, I prefer to be sought as a scholar-one for whom knowledge is about more than test…

to play in college. Little did I know there would be obstacles to set me back a notch. It was the end of the school year and it was time for football season to come around. We had running lifting this whole summer. A lot of people say your junior year is your most important so I was working extra hard, late 12 o'clock lift with my cousin and running the hill at leather lips park after practice. I was emailing coaches non stop to get one step closer to my dream of playing in college. I got…

“In the 2011-2012 school year, almost 25% of 4-year students dropped out. That’s almost three times higher than the state average in 2011” says Matt Finn in his art6icle “Yakima Schools See Staggering Dropout Rate”. What could cause this? Well, one of the main reasons is globalization. In his book, The World Is Flat Thomas Friedman tells us that globalization is how it is becoming easier to outsource job, and trade with other countries. But globalization isn’t just effecting these areas, it is…

Going to a four-year college can be very beneficial, but sometimes college isn’t cut out for some students. Some students can not focus in a classroom environment. Students that go to college sometimes end up being underemployed or unemployed if they can not find a job in their degree. If they can not find a job in their degree of work then they are stuck with a huge debt to pay. Students in Tamaqua Area High School have an opportunity in 10th grade to go to a Vocational Technical school called…

As a young child growing up in Davidson County, North Carolina, I never imagined the person that I have become today. While I did not “hate” school, I was not fond of the experiences that it brought. School was more of a means to an end, than a true quest for knowledge at that early point in my life. Upon graduating from high school, I knew that if I wanted to succeed in life I would need to go to college. However, after a brief experience at Appalachian State University in the early 90’s, I…

lives through the medical field. Others will teach students who will take our places, predict the weather, or be paid housekeepers for other people. Some of us first will be off to large colleges such as Pittsburgh, Penn State, Harvard, Duke, or Dartmouth; others will be off to smaller ones such as Nyack, Davidson,…