He will definitely be a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. He will have his choice of colleges. When I told Chris, who is a 4.0 student, what Mrs. Hines had said, he responded mildly to her prediction of scholarships. That would be very nice. His parents, Chris said, had also been genetically generous.
Mother is really good in English.
Dad has always been really good at math. He likes to water ski and he plays rock and Christian praise guitar. He likes agricultural science, too, and, in fact, cannot think of one academic area that he does not enjoy, though math is his favorite. Chris plans to major in computer information science, but has yet to decide whether to attend the California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or the University of California at Berkeley, all prestigious schools. After a while, when you've had sucess, you start realizing that maybe you're good at some of this stuff.