<p>HAHAHA. You have intelligent, caring, and thoughtful boyfriends.</p>
<p>Gosh girl, how I envy you.</p>
<p>nerds date?</p>
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<p>As a former academic olympiad finalist, Intel STS finalist, and Siemens regional finalist, man, I’m offended. While I was in those competitions, I got a lot of compliments specifically on the issues you mention. However, more importantly – most of my fellow finalists were exactly the kind of students who I admire most: the kids who have “curiosity, drive, and such,” as you put it. Moreover, having spent a lot of time with a number of very bright students with a wide range of backgrounds, I think these competitions, frankly, do a pretty good job of trying to get the word out to students who might not have learned about these opportunities.</p>
<p>(@belly: Yes, nerds date. Extensively. Have you not read XKCD? [xkcd:</a> Grownups](<a href=“http://xkcd.com/150/]xkcd:”>xkcd: Grownups))</p>
<p>I should also mention: despite a high 2300s SAT, all 5s (out of 9 AP’s), the above awards, and a ~3.8 GPA, I got rejected by Ivies. (I got accepted to my top four choices, and only my top four choices. So I’m not complaining!)</p>
<p>What were your top 4 choices?</p>
<p>What did you do your essays on?</p>
<p>jbubbles:</p>
<p>My essays were, in many cases, nonstandard.</p>
<p>My top 4 choices were my top 4 choices. I am a current UChicago student, so you might infer that UChicago was one of the schools that accepted me.</p>
<p>As a member of my school’s tautology club, I am also a member of the University of Chicago Tautology Club.</p>
<p>belly - haha I don’t consider myself a nerd, I’m not nearly as accomplished as my former bfs. Just different interests, theyre into logic and applied math/ science, I’m more intuitive, so like writing, visual stuff, yoga, etc.</p>
<p>Jealous of the girl with the caring, intelligent boyfriend.</p>
<p>My hockey-recruited boyfriend died of excitement when he got a 2100 on the SAT. It was absolutely adorable, yes, but he’s no “top 25 international science olympiad guy” I didn’t even know those existed/date people.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my own boyfriend is still mostly likely going to a better school than me because of his recruitment…(jealous)</p>
<p>^Haha, that really is adorable.</p>
<p>Having a 4.0 and a 2400 SAT is great, but you’re not going to get into a top school on that alone. You have to do stuff outside of school (sports, volunteering, clubs, etc.). I don’t think I actually answered your question, but I hope this helps either way.</p>
<p>Simply having a 2400 SAT, an uw 4.0, and a bunch of 5s on APs may, in some cases, only reflect a bright student with OCD, and ego completely dependent upon grades, too much concern for authority, or someone on the verge of burnout. </p>
<p>I’ve met some very amazing, talented, awesome students who also look fabulous on paper with the right numbers (as you’d expect). But likewise, I’ve also seen plenty of high scoring kids who are not necessarily brilliant, intellectual, or destined for amazing things. Real occupations and real life requires a whole lot more than that. Unfortunately, the attributes that might have gotten you the right numbers at 18 might be a huge problem in adulthood.</p>
<p>@jonri: By some kind of bizarre intuition I knew that guy went to my high school before I even clicked the link. Our most recent Intel winner (class of '05) just got a Rhodes.</p>
<p>2400 w/ rank 1 at a prestigious HS is actually almost a shoo-in, even for HYP. Its acceptance rate hovers around 8 percent. For people w/ 2400, it was 50 percent. I think if you have a 2400, you have a great chance to get into at least one of those three</p>
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<p>Do you have any links to those stats? As the father of 36.0 ACT w/ rank 1 kid, it would be nice to see, because we’re not nearly so confident. Stay on CC for awhile and you begin to feel that no one’s stats are ever good enough.</p>
<p>It seems your stats must be somewhat better than mine.</p>
<p>Hello,
I have a question regarding the admission process. I am a high school principal and have found that the grading scale is very low compared to other institutions where I have served and where I have studied. </p>
<p>As of this present semester beginning in August, our scale was made more difficult so that an A is equivalent to marks from 90-100; B, 80-89; C 70-79. Honors and AP courses’ GPA equivalent are: AP - A-5.0; B-4.0; C-3.0; Honors: A-4.5; b-3.5; C-2.5.</p>
<p>The school profile accompanies the transcripts and this scale is clearly stated on the transcript. Since students had a lower scale for three years, their concern is that admissions officials will not see the scale and interpret their marks incorrectly.</p>
<p>I was told by three different universitites that admissions’ procedures include the study of the school profile, the weight of the courses (AP, Honors, Regular), then the GPA as well as other factors related to admission.
Please let me know. Please explain the admissions process.</p>
<p>csfngradescale</p>
<p>New poster. Claims to be a high school principal. Somehow, I doubt it. The scale posted is extremely common and isn’t tough at all…one of several reasons I take it this post is a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>jonri, I dunno, this is a new scale on me. All of the AP and Honors courses are apparently weighted to be fails, since the non-AP, non-Honors courses are on a 1-100 scale but AP and Honors are on a 0 to 4.5 or 5 scale. Hoo boy, imagine what it’s going to be like when the valedectorians are announced! :D</p>
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<p>Not really. I’ve known people with a lot more than that that got rejected from HPS (no one applies to Yale from my school for some reason). </p>
<p>I don’t know if Yale’s standards are different, but to be automatic you used to have to make MOSP (top 50 in U.S. math tryouts) or actually make the travelling team in one of the other olympiads. Even Intel/siemens finalists often wasn’t enough.</p>
<p>If you really blow the doors off at a prestigious high school, you have a good chance at getting admitted somewhere good. But that’s it–a good chance. It might depend what you mean by prestigious–the Exeter’s of the world seem to have more cache with ivy admissions than math & science academies.</p>
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<p>LoremIpsum - your kid will be fine. He or she will find a spectacular opportunity at some wonderful college. Really. The premise of this thread is perhaps tonuge-in-cheek (or maybe not), but the point of college admissions is NOT that a top student is admitted everywhere he/she applies. So, anecdotes about 2400/vals being rejected at MIT are not unusual, but those students almost always find a great fit somewhere. I don’t think it’s true that “no one’s stats are good enough.” Maybe " almost no one gets in everywhere" would be closer to reality. It seems that in the era of holistic admissions, USAMO or Intel or USABO finalists have an advantage, but nothing is sacrosanct.</p>
<p>Colleague’s daughter is academic superstar per y’all’s criteria. She didn’t even bother with the Ivies. She’s at Chapel Hill on a full-ride scholarship. Smart kid. ;)</p>