<p>Try making friends and turning off your laptops kids</p>
<p>@Ocm2014 Chill out. I have friends in school and I’m pretty sure a lot of the people on here do as well. But I have different goals than a lot of my friends, so it’s nice to have a place where you can meet and talk to people with similar aspirations. </p>
<p>Nothing’s wrong with not applying to an Ivy. But applying to one (or like schools) is such a competitive and complicated process that it’s nice to have a community like CC to help you out throughout the process. It’s all in moderation. If you have no friends in real life, and spend your entire day on CC, then I might suggest that one take a break. But the majority of people (emphasis on MAJORITY, not all) on here have general sense of moderation.</p>
<p>Most of my friends are applying in-state, and if I were to depend on my friends and school to guide me through this process, I highly doubt that I’d be a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>This site is a fun blog but it is not a reliable resource and I guess it bothers me when I see so many freshman fall into this trap of believing these chance me threads or I’m so much smarter than my friends and only CC understands me. Just really put off by a post by DigitalKing being so rude and offensive “Dumb Asians” “stupid school” etc etc.</p>
<p>^ I don’t think it’s a resource CHANCE-wise, but I do think there’s good information. Probably, my favorite things to look at are results threads. Though it’s not a representative sample, it’s still nice to look and get an idea of what colleges are looking for. </p>
<p>Yeah, there are some obnoxious kids on here, but I’ve also met a lot of nice and funny people. </p>
<p>I, personally, think that smartness is relative. There are a lot of people who could have a good chance at top schools if they were more proactive and interested in them. But, that’s not were everybody wants to go.</p>
<p>But I think CC can be helpful.</p>
<p>For example, there’s one kid in my school who wants to apply to UPenn w/ a 1600. Not a bad score, but definitely not in their range. When I asked him about subject tests, he didn’t know what they were. I’m not saying it’s impossible for him to get in, but I feel like if he were more aware of the college admissions competitiveness and process, he would spend more time and money applying to schools in his range.</p>
<p>But, eh. He’s Mormon. He’s going to be on his mission next year. I don’t know if he’s going to try to defer admission to colleges. So I don’t know what his plan is.</p>
<p>huh i only come here over and over again because i like reading about success and chatting! it can also be helpful but considering the only forum i go on is high school life not really…
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<p>Fair enough. Your post is mature and well said. It was just an immature kid that hit a nerve</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I understand. It’s cool. Well, I’m going to bed now. It’s past 1 and I’m tired.</p>
<p>@ocm2014 sorry if I came off as being rude. I guess my discontent comes from being surrounded by super-smart people and super-hard classes for three years - so my expectations were too high coming into high school.</p>
<p>Another poster already said this but intelligence is subjective. A lot of students I know who are in the top 10% are actually rather naive and even… stupid, to an extent. The current valedictorian spends hours and hours studying Calculus III and number theory but could not, for the life of her, tell you what state Las Vegas is in. While I think the majority of students here are hardworking and motivated, to say that the CC community is generally “more intelligent” than the rest of the High School populace might be a bit too blanketing.</p>
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<p>Most high school kids are naive and by extension kind of stupid about the “real world.” This is true of the kids in the bottom 10% too. It’s because we’re young.</p>
<p>I don’t think CC is particularly intellectual or “nerdy,” though. A lot of people on here are kind of cynical and calculating, and they’re mostly just concerned with beating out their competition to get into HYPSM.</p>
<p>I don’t know how my friends at school look at CC because that’s not what we talk about.</p>
<p>I do know when I first posted this summer I gave my real scores and details (something maybe I shouldn’t have done) and a list of my schools including that I was an athletic recruit. I was told pretty much I was dreaming but who knows. Three months later I had offers from 5 of the schools I listed including those were supposed to be high reaches or big reaches. I’m going to go to one of the top ones on my list.</p>
<p>CC can be very skewed. I was told I had no chance at some schools, they came to me and offered me spots in September.</p>
<p>They could have been reaches even though you got in. The chances forum isn’t really the best place to go for useful information, though.</p>
<p>Yeah. Granted. I’m just saying I didn’t know back then and was given information which made me not have a big grasp on my own situation. I read the athletic recruits forum a lot and still don’t think it could have told me what I needed to know without revealing too much about myself.</p>
<p>Just responding to the original question of how CC has changed how you view yourself in terms of college admissions, the underlying theme being CC can make everyone paranoid in terms of their candidacy. Oh and freely admit my original questions pointless to post on the chances thread.</p>