A Houston teenager who applied to all of the top 20 colleges in the U.S. won offers from all of them with a full ride along with $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. Micheael Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, opened his first acceptance letter in December at his friend's house to relieve the pressure of doing it before his family.
Michael now has the enviable task of choosing between his top eight choices: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Georgetown and Vanderbilt.
Meanwhile, 17 year-old Hogg has been rejected by all four colleges to which he applied. Maybe they don't want his poisonous attitude on campus.
Interestingly, school violence has actually declined over the past couple of decades:
American schools have grown safer over the past two decades along a number of axes, according to a variety of new measures released as a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on Thursday.
