- Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
- The Bookseller of Kabul(Asne Seierstad)
- Complications (Atul Gawande)
- The Devil in the White City(Erik Larsen)
- Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Janisse Ray)
- A Hope in the Unseen (Ron Suskind)
- Isaac’s Storm (Erik Larsen)
- The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East(Sandy Tolan)
- Midnight in Garden of Goodand Evil (Jon Berendt)
- Reading Lolita in Tehran(Azar Nafisi)
Rome1960: The Olympics that Changed the World (David Maraniss)
- Three Cups of Tea (Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin)
- A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson)
- The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (A. J. Jacobs)
Instead of attending a school out of state or a private college next year, you really ought to look at the great educational values found right here in Georgia. Are those out-of-state schools and private schools so much better . . . so much better that you are willing to accumulate scores of thousands of dollars of debt?
The Winter edition of Kiplinger’s Success with Your Money evaluated 500 public colleges and universities by looking at academic quality, teacher-student ratio, graduation rates, and costs in order to discover the best schools in the nation. What did they find?
Ranked 7th in the nation = The University of Georgia
Ranked 12th in the nation = Georgia Tech
Ranked 83rd in the nation = Georgia College and University
Take a look at the full list:
Kiplinger’s Best College Values
Attached is the spreadsheet of the 2008 AP Scholars. Current students
are highlighted in yellow. The banners recognizing these students will be hung in the 600 commons as
they were last year.
Here are the totals and the comparison to last year:
2007 2008
Scholars 40 48
with Honor 20 25
with Distinction 23 41
National Scholar 3 4
Student records are cumulative, and here are the criteria for the categories:
Scholar: Grades of 3 or higher on 3 or more exams
Scholar with Honor: Grade of at least 3.25 on all exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on 4 or more
Scholar with Distinction: Average grade of at least 3.5 on all exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on 5 or more exams
National Scholar: Average grade of at least 4 on all exams taken and grades of 4 or higher on 8 or more exams
Download ap_scholars.xls
Instead of simply "Googling," why not look for scholarly sources?
Please see the Guidance website to view current scholarship information: