The other two students who i had to compete with in the fraudulent tie breaker scored a 99 and a 96. I scored 100.  Then they told me that the student returned the cash portion of the scholarship package, yet, he still went to the same boys academy. One of them wasn’t even in the eighth grade. Actually, I didn’t recognize either of them as being in my class. I thought this was particularly odd because it was usually me, Laura White, and Mark Snow that scored the highest. The tests were highly regulated. Like kept under lock and key, more secure than the voting ballots. 

I didn’t find out it was Mrs Carter Luke’s stepson they awarded the money to until more than a year later when he came into the school at the end of the year. I remember thinking, “gosh, he looks like he is her real son not her stepson”.