Whatever it takes to win a scholarship, you have to assume students at Old Mill, Severna Park and Annapolis high schools have more of it than kids at other schools.

Those are probably fighting words, but I hope I'm going to be excused from a pummeling if I point to the notable gap between scholarship dollars reported by these county high schools and students at the other nine,

Severna Park and Old Mill each reported that their students pulled in more than $8 million in scholarship offers this spring, followed by Annapolis at more than $6 million.

The only other north county school to even come close to that kind of...