<p>Two other competitive people from my school will also be applying to the exact same schools that I am thinking about...</p>
<p>I honestly hope that they can apply ED somewhere.</p>
<p>I don’t understand your concerns? Colleges look at qualified applicants in holistic terms. There is no set quota of how many people they are allowed to accept from a particular school.</p>
<p>Really? I secretly doubt it, especially when they are more than 5 times richer than me and are qualified applicants.
Besides, my school doesn’t rank and the GC only cares about the average not the difficulty of the courses.</p>
<p>With that attitude, I’m sure schools will be begging for you to matriculate.</p>
<p>What attitude?</p>
<p>this is a ■■■■■ thread</p>
<p>Yeah, but it’s not like schools don’t care about the difficulty of courses. I know Stanford used to recalculate GPA based on how difficult they thought the course was (I don’t know if they still do). Every college looks at course rigor. And their wealth has nothing to do with their chances of admission. Top colleges are mostly need blind now.</p>
<p>Your attitude = “Woe is me, I can’t get into college because everyone is out to get me!” That’s an ironic contrast to your username.</p>
<p>My friend and I wanted to apply to the same schools last year. It was a school that students from our school rarely get accepted to (as in no acceptance within the last five years), so we were both slightly worried that we’ll be directly competiting against each other, as we were the only two applying. Everything turned out perfectly okay: we both got in - it was a 100% acceptance rate :).</p>
<p>xrCalico23 - You’re going to Harvard, right? :)</p>
<p>I really hope that they look at course rigor.
Thanks!
Wow that’s awesome xrCalico23!</p>
<p>Yep, can’t wait :p. You know, I’m so disappointed that you think Princeton/Duke/Yale/whatever-other-school is waaay better, as I was kind of hoping I would get to meet you some day!</p>
<p>Anonymous - You’re going to DTMJPIHBHCUMU next year, right? :)</p>
<p>It’s just that my school has sent nobody to ivy in the past decade so… I really don’t know if a miracle will happen that all of us can get in.</p>
<p>My school almost never sends anyone to any good school either… you don’t know until you try.</p>
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<p>If you’re good enough, you will get in. Your school is not going to hold you back. I think people who are rejected too often blame their schools. It’s not like if you find the cure to cancer, Harvard won’t want you because you go to sakhdjsahd school. I’m literally the first person from my school to get into Harvard/Princeton/Dartmouth/Columbia.</p>
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<p>I was hoping that I could meet you too! I really like that you didn’t mention in your original post that you were going to Harvard. Most the people I know going to Harvard work it into every conversation. It gets annoying. DUKEEEEEE :)</p>
<p>And yeah, course rigor matters. In fact, I think it’s listed as a “very important factor” on the collegeboard for all the colleges I applied to.</p>
<p>“I really like that you didn’t mention in your original post that you were going to Harvard. Most the people I know going to Harvard work it into every conversation. It gets annoying.”</p>
<p>Haha, I actually don’t know any Harvard '14er in real life, as I couldn’t make it to the admitted students weekend. I hope they won’t be annoying though:P. The only harvard person I know in real life is going to be senior next year, and he almost never mentions it unless I specifically asked him, so that’s good. I actually think it’s kind of unfair how if you’re going to, say U of Pittsburgh, then you can announce that to the world, but somehow if you’re going to a more selective school, random people who don’t know you personally may think you’re slightly obnoxious if you mention it to them too much…</p>
<p>Duke? lol, I knew it :D. (Actually, that’s not true, I don’t know anything about Duke, as I’ve never looked into the school, but seriously, you’ll be amazing no matter which school you ultimately choose!)</p>
<p>@OP: Sorry I totally hijacked this thread by the way.</p>
<p>From my very limited observation on CC, almost all people who were accepted into good schools are very humble.
I will try my best and hope for the best!
I was really afraid that my low family income, competition from other people in the same school and the ill-informed GC will seriously jeopardize my chance. Thanks for clarifying many things for me!</p>
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<p>I agree, but for some reason it seems like people who are going to Harvard mention their college more often than someone who is going to the University of Pittsburgh does. One of my closest friends is going to Harvard, and she is getting a bit annoying about the Harvard thing. It somehow comes up in every conversation. But I think that’s to be expected. She got into the most selective school in the nation, she has a right to be proud. </p>
<p>DUKKKKKEEE!! I love Duke. I just got off the waitlist so I’m going.</p>
<p>@OP - Yeah, sorry :)</p>
<p>^congrat =D!</p>
<p>@happysunnyshine: being low income can be an advantage is you’re applying to need blind, very selective schools and have the credentials. You can read about a program called QuestBridge to get an idea of how being low income can actually be advantageous in some cases, just as long as you’re not looking at schools that do consider need. As for “ill-informed” GC… 
Just read CC instead, and soon you’ll know more about college than you’ll ever wish to know. I actually have to explain to my counselor what score choice is last year, and I think most high schools in the country don’t have extremely well informed guidance counselors as people seem to expect.</p>
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Even for internationals? </p>
<p>I am not eligible for QuestBridge because I am not American.</p>
<p>^awww. Very few schools are need blind for internationals :(.</p>