<p>“Name one other person that can do that at the same age as me.”</p>
<p>This statement is incredibly conceited and egotistical. Your arrogance amazes me. Just because no one else on here bothers to brag about their credentials doesn’t mean that they don’t have them. I could name dozens of people who’ve accomplished more than you have. Accomplished more, and have a better attitude. People I’d actually want attending my school. You’re not ready for college.</p>
<p>Who’s the real idiot? The one who thinks he is too smart for homework, so blows it off and fails, or the person that does his homework and passes?</p>
<p>This will be the 43rd post. 1) either the OP is a ■■■■■ or 2) OP has shown he doesn’t want any real advice but rather “attaboys”</p>
<p>Sounds like we’re all better off going to other threads instead.</p>
<p>Couldn’t have said it better myself. OP really needs to stop feigning superiority and take some responsibility.</p>
<p>If american colleges don’t care about talent, I don’t know who will. I am willing to go to college for my entire summer vacation, but there are not that many possibilities for me. I just found out about a few Pre-college summer programs, and the one that fits me best is Introduction to Programming in C in Columbia University. Hopefully this will show that I am capable of doing college level work. Thanks for the constructive criticism, and I might post here once again I finish the program.</p>
<p>Move along ■■■■■, its best you retreat to the underside of your bridge at once!</p>
<p>I don’t know how to articulate this to you: a summer program is NOT a substitute for high school, and especially one that doesn’t cover what high school covers! You’re going to have to realize that you don’t have what it takes as of now to go to a good college, so suck it up and take advantage of a CC.</p>
<p>Colleges aren’t going to recognize your “talent” because what you have is so obscure and detached from what they want.</p>
<p>I think the ■■■■■ got what he wanted: a four page and growing thread on CC replying to his nonsense.</p>
<p>I must admit you are a highly accomplished ■■■■■. You hit all the right buttons and kept having people post with passion. Bravo!! Your thread has now achieved true entertainment value.</p>
<p>Someothertime, you are a sad excuse for an applicant. I feel sorry for you because you are being hampered by teachers, less capable colleagues, and boring curriculum. Oh wait, you’re being hampered by your inability to handle life and you attitude of a 4 year old who doesn’t want to go to preschool because it’s just so darn tough :,(</p>
<p>Colleges grade like high schools. Attendance, homework, etc. - they all count as part of your grade. I go to NYU-Poly. Just FYI. Maybe you’re not the college-type, which is fine. :)</p>
<p>“After graduation, I would probably spend the rest of my life studying/researching CS, and probably be working as a professor at whatever college I graduated from.”</p>
<p>It doesn’t work that way.</p>
<p>■■■■■ you had me going for a while but then you over-played your hand. </p>
<p>The Java genius who’s written PSP hacks, a keylogger and his own database software has found nirvana in taking an “Intro to C” class. Absolutely hilarious! Good joke.</p>
<p>But wait! He learned JavaScript, not Java! I didn’t even realize you could write database software using JavaScript! ;)</p>
<p>I do not want to give your negative advice, but considering the older posts I am reading, it might be all I have at this time. I understand being sick, because Freshman and Sophomore year I had Anorexia Nervosa and was in the hospital for 4 months. This obviously affected my grades. I do not understand being lazy. And forgive me if I am being rude, but I am afraid you might not know the actual definition for “lazy.” When you claim that you are oh so smart, but you “don’t want to” do your homework, therefore “the teachers” fail you, and it is “their” fault for lowering your GPA… then you are either 1. Lazy or 2. An idiot, and you don’t come off as an idiot. The tough truth… you will not get into NYU. I wouldn’t even waste my time with the application fee. You might be able to play on the computer, but they could care less about that. You are too lazy to turn in your homework, because you don’t care. You think your teachers care if you don’t care? No. You are 17? 16? Around there? Well, you’re old enough to either care for yourself when it comes to school and be responsible, or swallow the pill that you are not getting into NYU and be okay with a mediocre CC, because I can promise you that at this point that is where you are headed. Nothing wrong with that! Mediocre is fine. But own it. Be responsible, and admit it. You obviously are not smart enough to figure out that yes, you have to take b.s. classes in high school, and deal with jerky teachers, because if you don’t… you’ll end up in the same spot you ended up in, which is mediocre-just another student passing by through the system, and below average. You could be brillant, and maybe you are! But you come off as ambition-less and lazy, but at the same time you expect others to be like “Aww, of course you’ll get accepted! Grades aren’t everything.” Well, with NYU, they are. I doubt you could even get into state with a 1.5. In Kentucky, we need AT LEAST a 2.0, and that is for a state school and bottom classes. Wake up sweetheart and smell the coffee. I’m not trying to be al-mightier than God. I’m not perfect. I’ve screwed up. My GPA? It’s a 2.8, but guess what? I killed for that grade point average, and it isn’t much! But at least I can say I took the time and tried. I did my best to recover from everything, and I have improved. I’m possibly going to state, and I will be okay with that because it’s my best at this time in my life. I’m not lazy. I go to class when I’m not sick. I study. I do my homework. I am not brilliant, nor will I ever be, but I know what I can get at this time in my life, and I know what I want. At the end of the day, you have to be realistic. You have to find a happy medium between WANT and POSSIBLE. If you don’t, you’ll just end up whining on and on about how perfectly smart you are, when obviously you have nothing to back that up with.</p>
<p>^^^ Let inane threads die…</p>