Any chance at Dartmouth?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>He's ranked #1...honestly though if this kid isn't smart enough to realize that he is taking a big risk with his list PLUS he is too immature to realize you sometimes have to do things you don't like for a greater good, he probably doesn't deserve to be at a top school.</p>

<p>Sorry to be harsh.</p>

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<p>wat is RPI and WPI? when i put his rank and his scores together, i think that either he is going to an uncompetitive school with grade inflation, or this guy just doesn't care about SATs!</p>

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<p>I think this guy's parents never made him eat his vegetables as a kid, he clearly ate candy all day long because it tastes better.</p>

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<p>I eat my vegetables thank you very much...my parents never had to lecture me on their importance...and I'm not overweight if that is what you are implying. In fact, I need to take insulin shots so my blood's glucose level does not soar through the roof. Therefore, I do not regularly consume candy.</p>

<p>It was a nice thought, but an unneccesary afterword if you ask me.</p>

<p>I guess I have a problem because I like to enjoy life. I'd much rather quit high school and work at McDonalds for the rest of my life because High School does not give out paychecks. I'd much rather not volunteer for an early shift at a hospital all summer. I want to sleep in to play Civilization IV. I'd rather sit on my ass than get outside and hike a mountain. Why do I even bother doing these things? I suppose its so much easier to sit around and amount to nothing than accept a challenge now and then. What is the point of life? Some say wealth, fame, knowledge? I say accepting challenges, acknowledging the pain and strife you experienced along the way, and in the end being happy.</p>

<p>I also believe obsessing over standardized tests is a waste of time. I have taken many hard tests, but the purpose of a test is to assess, not provide a significant intellectual obstacle which will turn the rest of your life to misery. If this keeps me out of a school with students who brag about their SAT scores, so be it. I am looking for a school to challenge my intellect...not one which assesses me on how fast I can find the solution to a quadratic equation or decode a banal paragraph on African fire ants. I am in Calculus class...I study limits, derivatives, and integrals. Colleges should put Calculus on the SAT, but that would be unfair for other students. People develop at different rates. I suppose I forget most of the math I learned in 8th grade and therefore earned a 700 on the math portion of my SAT. Am I upset its not a little higher? Sure. Will I let this dominate the rest of my life and make me a miserable failure till the day I die? Absolutely not.</p>

<p>Does my high school inflate grades? I'd have to say no. A perfect GPA is out of 8 points, but the only way to attain an 8.00 is to take all AP classes for every single class throughout high school. This is impossible because my school only offers 6 and one must take 32 classes to matriculate. Am I ignorant? You be the judge. Am I immature? At times I may be, but even Dartmouth students have their day and make ridiculous statements in an attempt to put down people. The Bully who you knew in kindergarten eventually graduates to the intellectual Bully who feels he/she is so much smarter than you that he/she is always right. I guess because I applied to WPI, RPI, and Uconn, I am ignorant and do not deserve to pursue education at a top 15 school. I'm sorry, but that is a load of CC bull ****.</p>

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<p>Dude, the point of my statement was that you appear to be a person unwilling to make a sacrifice, not that you are fat. Who gave you that A in English?</p>

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<p>But you are unwilling to accept a challenge you don't like, which means you are not accepting challenge at all.</p>

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<p>Why are you assuming top scorers at Ivies brag about their scores? I never once knew anyone's SAT score at Dartmouth with the exception of my roommate. Going to Dartmouth is knowing you are around smart people and enjoying the benefit of being able to assume that everyone is great in some way. No one cares about the SAT once you are in.</p>

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<p>You are really diluded or have problems interpreting. Who said because you applied to RPI, WPI, and UConn you aren't worthy of a top school? I am saying that you might find the 90% of the benefits of Dartmouth or Duke at a more realistic place like Emory, whereas RPI might only provide 40% of those benefits. </p>

<p>Also I am not saying I am always right. But I know for dead sure you are wrong.</p>

<p>You aren't getting into Dartmouth or Duke, and they will be the better for it. If I get kicked off CC for saying this, so be it. Good schools don't want immature kids unwilling to listen or to sacrifice.</p>

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<p>"You are really diluded or have problems interpreting. Who said because you applied to RPI, WPI, and UConn you aren't worthy of a top school? I am saying that you might find the 90% of the benefits of Dartmouth or Duke at a more realistic place like Emory, whereas RPI might only provide 40% of those benefits. "</p>

<p>Apparently you did in a prior post.</p>

<p>"honestly though if this kid isn't smart enough to realize that he is taking a big risk with his list PLUS he is too immature to realize you sometimes have to do things you don't like for a greater good, he probably doesn't deserve to be at a top school."</p>

<p>"Good schools don't want immature kids unwilling to listen or to sacrifice."
Hmm...I guess volunteering at a hospital isn't sacrificing my time for the good of the Medical Community? How about running a service project where I managed a special olympics team? Nah...I'm immature and unwilling to listen.</p>

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<p>slipper, didn't realize he was ranked #1.</p>

<p>SAT is low; Dartmouth does seem to place a lot of emphasis on personal qualities and SATs...both of which the poster seem to be lacking.</p>