<p>Your “simple statements” are erroneous and your so-called thorough explanations havn’t made them any less wrong.</p>
<p>wow i wasn’t trying to start a flame war here…</p>
<p>i don’t want to sound arrogant but even though it might help to have pushy parents not everyone can do well in math competitively. my parents may have made me practice math when i was younger, but they have a distinct hands-off attitude after middle school.</p>
<p>Precognition and orrrly, if you know me as a person you’d know that i’m not that kind of stereotypical person, i was just trying to make fun of it. though rereading my post i do see where you’d get that impression. i weightlift routinely, play sports, hang out, and generally “have a life”. i chose to go to a liberal-arts focused high school rather than a high school that was extremely competitive in math and science, just to avoid being locked into one career goal. and i guess the asian stereotype at my school is different, since most of my asian friends are those president of honor society types.</p>
<p>xrCalico23, i did in fact make the organization web page (they are an NPO), and the job to fix computers was a “legitimate” job, i was on payroll, ran the shop, etc, etc. i mean i think i show a lot of initiative, but most of it is outside of the school environment entirely. i figure colleges are looking for the usual president of club stuff.</p>
<p>also, guys, way to tell me if i have a chance of getting in to the schools i asked about =)</p>
<p>Wow, just wow. Did you two just totally hijacked gcj0000’s chance thread to talk about each other’s lameness o.O</p>
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<p>orrrly, I think you phrased it perfectly right there: those who do not succeed in academics either do not have the resources or the environment constructive to intellectual growth or do not try as hard as the kids who do succeed. Often it’s both. I completely agree with you right there. However, I don’t agree with the “kids who don’t get into there schools” part. Which schools? HYP? You have to recognize that there are countless people out there who have amazing achievements - and I’m not only talking about academic success here - who were rejected. Perfect scorers only have a 40-50% chance of admission at these schools, and valedictorians? Lol, much, much worst chances.</p>
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<p>Please do not assume that those who attend very selective schools all come from wealthy families and simply do well in school because of their parents or whatever. Your family and environment can only encourage your intellectual growth to a certain point – most of your achievements will have to be self driven.</p>
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<p>True, there are tons of people who are incredibly intelligent but do not attend the very selective schools. Many of them are indeed very successful in life. But you see, the difference is that those who succeed, no matter if they attend state public schools or a good competitive private, all are very self motivated and want to learn and challenge themselves. Effort and attitude are indeed much more important than innate talent. In other words, those friends of yours, even though they’re smart, may not be as successful in life as they could have been because they never challenged themselves enough academically. They didn’t have the discipline or the perseverance, not that they weren’t smart enough.</p>
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<p>LOL, what?</p>
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<p>Sorry but, playing video games??? I thought you were going to say “hanging with friends” or “going to the movies” or “partying” or whatever – but, video games? :rolleyes: I’ll rather study.</p>
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<p>He was answering other people’s questions most of the time, not talking about himself. This website is only so useful because there are people who come and answer each other’s questions. If you think having that many posts shows one has no life, well, I guess stick to the video games :p.</p>
<p>@gcj0000: of course you have a chance :)! It’s almost impossible to predict the admission results of those schools, but you are of course within the range of accepted students. Have you checked out these? There are such decision threads for almost every college that can help you decide for yourself what your “chance” is. Those with your stats are sometimes accepted, sometimes waitlisted, and sometimes rejected.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939417-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread-8.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939417-consolidated-ea-rd-2014-results-thread-8.html</a></p>
<p>Anyway, logging out. Good luck with your college admissions.</p>
<p>lol For the record, I don’t play video games at all and haven’t in about 3 years; that was just an example, especially since I, being Asian, take academics seriously, too (but maybe for different reasons). I don’t even own an XBox. Sorry, it was kind of immature of me to chastise people over a message board for being arrogant when I don’t know enough about them. However, after lurking CC for a couple of days, it seemed obvious that at least some of the people who post here are overly pretentious. Unfortunately, I can relate, because I’ve been there before. I think it’s easy, when you’re isolated – like most academically-oriented students are – to “look down” on the general population for having their own interests.</p>
<p>The “not Asian enough” was a joke, because I’ve always gotten the impression that some Asians just think they’re smarter than everyone else.</p>
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“However, after lurking CC for a couple of days, it seemed obvious that at least some of the people who post here are overly pretentious. Unfortunately, I can relate, because I’ve been there before. I think it’s easy, when you’re isolated – like most academically-oriented students are – to “look down” on the general population for having their own interests.”</p>
<p>I’m not sure most academically oriented students look down on the general population. You’re either ■■■■■■■■ or you’re a complete jack**s.</p>
<p>^ Get this guy a Klondike Bar, nicely worded</p>
<p>I’M a complete jackass? Have you read this board? Geez. Besides, you must not be in IB. When I was in IB, every kid thought he or she was better than everyone else. I just have not had good experiences with “smart” kids; college is just as bad; this board has been worse. So yea, I assumed he was being arrogant.</p>