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South Florida trip Total and College News

June 25th, 2016 at 03:16 pm

I did pretty well with the trip to south Florida. I spent $428 overall. This included a car rental for a week and two plane tickets. The only thing I am not including in the cost is the three restaurants. I will be reimbursed for those as they were mystery shops. I also mystery shopped two grocery stores. I picked up snacks and juice boxes for my grandkids with those. I head to Michigan in three weeks and hope that trip is around $600 so my total stays around $1000 for both trips. This should be totally doable as I will stay with family. The major costs will be the car rental (heavily discounted through my daughter) and gas.

In other news, I am so proud of my son. He scored a 32 (the national average is around 21) on his first try on the ACT. This was with no prep and he ran out of time on the math section. He is going to take it again and shoot for a perfect score (he was perfect in reading and close to it in science and English). With his GPA and these scores I know he will get some excellent scholarships. We are daring to hope he may even get a full ride somewhere!

3 Responses to “South Florida trip Total and College News”

  1. CB in the City Says:
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    Wow! Great performance by your son!

    My Florida trip was $490, which included gas, two nights at a hotel, and food. That's great that you can use mystery shopping to augment your vacation!

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Good job for your son. I have never liked the time limits on those tests. All they do is measure how fast your smart is. There are many kids who can work the problems given more time. My son had to take a recent test and the math portion had 36 questions and they had 40 minutes to do it in. And these were equations that had to be written out and solved. He hated it because he had no time to check his work and felt incredibly rushed and only managed to do 30 questions, all of which he got correct. He was mad because he knew he could have got them all if given an hour. Even before his head injury he probably wouldn't have been able to check his work, but he'd have completed all of the questions on time. Now there is very little chance of it, but he still gets the right answers on what he has time to complete. He's still smart. He's just slower with his processing speeds.

  3. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    It does sound like he's close to national merit scholarship level. WTG!

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