A Brief History in Chances... peruse at your own risk

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay. I read the entire, massive, humongous, tiring thing. I wanted to slap you by the time I got to 10th grade. </p>

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<p>And this massive post is not what an application looks like. An application is more of a list with a few short answers and then the essay, if I remember correctly. None of those unnecessary comments, etc. Just wanted to clear that up.</p>

<p>And yes, as other posters have mentioned, you are lacking in leadership positions, although you seem to be making up for that in your senior year, I suppose. </p>

<p>I have to say, your grades and scores are so perfect that they amuse me. I'm not especially sure why, I just don't see it as being possible, I guess. But, if as you say all of it is true, than I suppose I congratulate you on your accomplishment...</p>

<p>And, this may come across as...harsh...but I'm beginning to see why you didn't win any of the NHS popularity contests, as you call them. Maybe you're just being sarcastic, but you come off as conceited, and if I was you, I would tone it down. Waaaay down.</p>

<p>But you'll probably be fine, as far as colleges are concerned.</p>
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<p>These threads aren't "chance" threads, they're "brag" threads.</p>

<p>I mean seriously, 4.0/2400/35?</p>

<p>And you're asking for your CHANCES? Ivys are a crapshoot, but this is as close as you can get? What, feel your ECs are weak? Getting a Eagle Scout status before your apps locks that area, and you know it.</p>

<p>Seriously, ughhh. I mean...come on? Why are you torturing the rest of us with these posts? Why can't you simply go to the main forum and say "what ECs do I need help on?" Must you go to a chance forum and blast us with your perfect touch of God?</p>

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<p>I'm amused, mostly because I'm probably smarter than you</p>

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<p>He Won Da Sciencec Fair</p>

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<p>i would like that very much generalobserver.</p>

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<p>ugh mild irony isn't so amusing when everything is an unknown...</p>

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<p>I'm not trying to be completely evil and call you a total liar or anything, but I feel as if no one could be this perfect. If you actually did do everything you said and will follow through on your senior year, congratulations. If not, some honesty in posting stats is always nice.</p>

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<p>does ur fatha beat you if you get an A-?</p>

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<p>my question is if your so brilliant a writer, how'd you get a 10 on the SAT? It must be that your writing is so dazzling and you have such unique style that the harsh structure of the SAT was simply too restrictive.</p>

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<p>To iruntrain, my family has absolutely nothing to do with my academics/ activities. No restrictions (other than logistics and money... ugh) but no aid really either. lol my dad has no idea what classes I'm in, doesn't even know my age immediately (AHHH), and doesn't care at all where i go to college. My parents don't really know what the ivy league is, the nature of a true college education (mom got an associates degree in accounting but doesn't use it; i don't even know if my dad went to college and both my parents work for the post office). I'm not trying to debase my parents; they just have different priorities with respect to most parents. No bachelor's degree means first generation college student, right?</p>

<p>now chaz, there are plenty of 2400/4.0 UW/ ranked 1 people (at least that's what Harvard likes to say). those stats do not constitute perfection in any way. What I said wasn't really that much to tell the truth (haven't gotten my eagle scout award yet, haven't had any distinguishable leadership roles, and our good Academic Team was a TEAM). Time permitting, i do plan on following up on everything i said i plan to do senior year.</p>

<p>General observer: you're on track, I like to compose my essays with concentrated preparation, effort, and extremely felicitous words on my own time and opinion. I abhor the systematic, specific, restrictive, and possibly factually unsound way of writing standardized test essays for SAT 1 and ACT (APs, on the other hand, are a different story). The ACT essay was on should we have current events in high school? Totally insignificant, inane topic; the counterargument was even "some people think we shouldn't have current events because the main source documents of study are newspapers and media of similar sort that can be biased"...</p>

<p>I do I have to say that the stream of consciousness theme is a mild joke (though I will probably incorporate a few of its elements in my essay at least for a paragraph or so [well heck I might indeed write an entire essay in stream of consciousness])</p>

<p>Also keep in mind that most of my critique concerning my writing ability comes from my Lit teacher this year, who has fairly narrow expectations and goals. I'll give an example of a little paragraph I wrote for something in his class that he said "brough tears to his eyes"</p>

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<p>Last passage response in a response journal for Tess of the D'Urbervilles</p>

<p>(388) “‘It is as it should be,’ she murmured. ‘Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!’
She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved.
‘I am ready,’ she said quietly.”</p>

<p>and my response:</p>

<p>Thus ends the debacle of a life tormented by fate and the selfish lust of fellow human beings through submission to certain and inexorable execution; no “lay on, Macduff” left her lips and no struggle with nefarious foes in man or in nature did her body endure at the end of all things. The culmination of a life of suffering results, in the case of Tess, in the loss of vitality, will to live, and will to act in ones best interests. Hardy echoes Tess’s own final indifference to her fate in his imagery of Stonehenge and the d’Urberville vault; the colossal dark, enigmatic, and pagan monoliths stood starkly impassive towards Tess while the d’Urberville “knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing.” While Tess’s consignation to death and deranged justification for doing so should prove piteous and evoke such a response in the reader as in any other similar case, the narration’s tired and unimpassioned tone move me to refrain from accepting the appeal of the innate pathos of the circumstance. Despite her violation on several levels and futile attempts at acquiring happiness I cannot feel more than apathetic towards her plight; like Tess “I am ready” for her tortured yet insignificant life to terminate.</p>

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<p>not that insightful in terms of rational human thought, but that was not the nature of the requirements for the assignment</p>

<p>Of course that was just an object analysis and nowhere near the style of my future college app essays, which I predict will have many Romantic (literary movement of course) qualities</p>

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<p>I do not have any clear knowledge of the subject material being analyzed, but it seems that the paragraph is essentially high-level diction used to the point of opacity; that is, it is difficult for me to understand what you are trying to say because your words tend to be excessive. </p>

<p>However, your teacher probably did have tears in his eyes because the paragraph does seem to capture the mood and tone of the passage.</p>

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<p>well you shouldn't understand what's being analyzed; I assume you didn't read the book. It flows if you speak it aloud in your mind.</p>

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<p>its bad enough that remstar thinks hes deez nuts in writing but enderkin you shoudnt encourage him..you gotta get off his testiclers
keep your pimp hand strong buddy</p>

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<p>i'm a nice guy, what can i say? even my criticisms come out positive.</p>

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<p>Well, wait just a second. Why shouldn't we be able to understand what's being analyzed? Isn't that the purpose? And just because it flows doesn't mean it says anything or that is a concise analysis. A lot of people can make things sound good, but it's much more difficult to actually say something.</p>

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<p>-"Felicitous" words? Interesting usage...
-The "justification for doing so" bit is not grammatically correct because it isn't preceded by an active verb.
-If you were "slashed" down subjectively in US history, how did you get 100%?
-35 is not perfect. Work on that.</p>

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<p>If you're as accomplished a person as you claim, why would you worry about getting into college? Not from the perspective of "OMG AUTOMATIC ADMISSION" but from the perspective of "Perhaps where I go to college does not automagically determine my happiness, self-fulfillment, or success in life because I have shown that I can do quite well on my own."</p>

<p>Unless of course you're a lying pansy, because if you're as smart as you claim you ought already to have realized that or you've shown that for all your alleged accomplishments, you're still a horrible brainwashed person.</p>

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<p>We Won Da Science Fair</p>