2010: Where the "cool kids" are headed . . .

College Search & Selection
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<p>and where are you headed again dwincho?</p>

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<p>I just spent two years in the armed forces, weighing my options. My reaches are Swarthmore, Wesleyan, Vassar, Brown, Pomona, Grinnell, NYU and CUNY Scholars.</p>

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<p>UT, A&M, Texas Tech mainly.</p>

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<p>petite gymnast with huge family and even bigger friend/fan base -- dartmouth (over family pattern of UVA)
personable QB, sans the ego -- lehigh
incredible writer/artist/humanitarian (female) -- yale
pseudo hippie who is "way into philosophy, man" -- bard
outgoing, charismatic, idealistic theater gal -- princeton</p>

<p>and the one no one can quite figure out....
bookaholic who may/may not be mute -- brown</p>

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<p>naturally smart at everything, our school's "da vinci" - UPenn
bright, very laid back, extremely good at video games - WUSTL</p>

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<p>Top 5:
1.Modest, intelligent, corny, athletic > Duke
2.Arrogant, clever, athletic, knows too much for her own good > Stevens [turned down Columbia]
3.Eccentric, ambitious, impatient, sensible > Harvard
4.Smart hottie, popular, coy, witty, intelligent > Davidson
5.Level-headed, Reserved, Considerate, Linguistic genius > Tufts</p>

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<p>From my S's class of 2005--Wake, Elon, College of Charleston(girls), Chapel Hill, NC State, Cornell, UVA, GA tech (engineers), Annapolis</p>

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<p>Gawd. If there'd been kids like this in my class, maybe I wouldn't have been so miserable in high school. The only one of us who came close, I'd say, was my best friend, who wanted Columbia, but went to Barnard.</p>

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<p>All the cool kids in my school went to the state flagship university. But here are some people in my school with distinctive characteristics:</p>

<p>Smart, but lazy, laid-back guys who play video games all day - WUSTL, Case
Wealthy, type A ^ infinity, ambitious, cynical, sarcastic overachievers who are huge party animals when they don't have any work - UPenn
Politically active, liberal, loud, outgoing, and hyper lesbian - Wellesley
Smart but shy guy who comes from a family that is both very strict and wealthy- Cornell</p>

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<p>Funny, smart-but-lazy, popular-but-not the douchebag popular, athletic, really just a cool guy ---> Kenyon College
Uber-studious, nice, social-when there isn't a test in the next two days, loud-and-outgoing girl ---> Vanderbilt (full tuition)
Studious-but-not obessessed with books, smart-but-not-a-genius, hardworking, athletic, do-gooder(in a good way), girl ---> NC State (full ride)
really funny, studious-but-even-more-social, naturally smart-but-doesn't-show it, artsyguy ---> Tufts
amazingly smart, athletic, hardworking, nice, friendly ---> Davidson
nice, smart-and-hardworking, artistic, outdoorsy, athletic, hot-homecoming-court chick ---> Stanford
really smart, really hardworking, weird-but-funny ---> Harvard
Outdoorsy, the nice-AND-popular girl, attractive, hardworking, social ---> Georgetown
Popular, good at everything she tries, hardworking, smart ---> UVa (full ride)
really funny, social-and-popular, smart, lazy, going to college for her Mrs. degree ---> Tennessee (only school she applied to)
That probably wraps it up for "cool" senior friends...</p>

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<p>the people that are fun and smart go to ut-austin, the rich and smart go to smu, the people you can see being married with a couple of kids go to a&m or tech, and the smart nerds go to rice or a school in new england.</p>

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<p>Hmmm, well I go to a private, college prep school in California, and here's where the cool kids are headed.</p>

<p>Valedictorian, very sweet, kind of nerdy, not very social, but very smart: Williams
Her best friend, who is very similar to her: Swarthmore
Fun girl, goofy, jokes around a lot, big partier, fairly intelligent: WUSTL (minority, definitely wouldn't have gotten in otherwise)
Most popular girl, very smart, really into Asian stuff: University of Hawaii at Manoa
Girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, dressed weird, dyes her hair black, not too popular or too smart: Brown
Semi-weird girl, very, very intelligent, indepedent thinker: UMass Amherst
Bubbly, giggly girl, who might be smart, but if so, is good at acting dumb: Amherst (Tennis star, legacy)
School sports star, class president: Stanford
Outdoorsy star of the cross country team, who wins trialations and is taking a year off to go hiking in Patagonia, probably the smartest person I've ever met: Dartmouth
Nerdy, not too popular, sometimes a little annoying, study-holic girl: UChicago
Too-mature-for-her-age girl, who is obsessed with everything European and loves city culture: Columbia
6' tall model girl who does nonstop community service and lives alone: Vanderbilt
Me (smart, slightly material, goofy, very social, like to party but definitely take schoolwork seriously): UVA</p>

<p>Everyone else: USC</p>

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<p>most everyone-smu, other than the apartment dwellers who most likely go to ut-austin</p>

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<p>camper89 - Where do you go to school? The only school that I could see sending almost everyone to SMU would be Highland Park.</p>

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<p>flower mound hs. school population tends to come from wealth a lot like that at highland park. ex of flower mound residents/former residents: terrell owens, deion sanders, chuck norris(no joke). but carroll and colleyville both send a similar number down to smu as well</p>

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<p>How does someone in high school live alone?</p>

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<p>camper - Ah, yes, I could see that from Flower Mound, though I thought the relative geographical distance between FM and SMU might lead to a few people going to TCU instead. I guess not. I could also see a large amount going from Carroll & Colleyville.</p>

<p>gellino - any HS kid 18 or over can live alone, as well as an emancipated minor.</p>

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<p>Is HS kids living alone a common thing? I've never heard of that and certainly not for someone who would need the type of support necessary to go to Vanderbilt the next year.</p>

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<p>i go to a public high school just fifteen minutes away from downtown LA, and heres the rundown:</p>

<p>Class-president, pretty popular among the class > UCLA
Ambitious, determined, conservative, is a mormon, very intelligent > Harvard
VERY well-rounded, intelligent, cultured, grammar queen > Loyola Marymount
pretty shy, math/science geek, bando, music prodigy > Columbia</p>

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<p>pretty interesting, keep this going!</p>