<p>***** you a**hole seriously get a life</p>
<p>do i smell jealousy miss mediocrity</p>
<p>no, it's just the sour smell of anxiety</p>
<p>Unacceptable. Try community college.</p>
<p>Uh, maybe those people with 1350-1450 get in because they're more than just numbers.</p>
<p>I know plenty of 1300s and low 1400s kids at my school who are dynamic, involved, highly intelligent people that for whatever reason couldn't answer two or three more questions correctly on a test. I also know a couple 1550s and higher in my area who are logs that don't do anything of any substance. Digits ain't everything ;)</p>
<p>My real name is Sam. "Icantieatie" 's name is Bowen. We both are now freshman at Stanford. We met at Coca-Cola scholar weekend and we are both from Maryland, and we are now great friends. His post and my post right here are just us taking a little break from our "dead week," which is the week before finals begin. Do not feel pressured by our achievements, because no matter where you go there will always be somebody better than you are, even for me. College admissions is hard, many of the schools are arbitrary and do not follow a specific guideline. People get in for many reasons, and there are people from the age of 15 to 22, from a 4 foot olympian to a 7 foot center for the stanford basketball team, from australia to wyoming (but not North Dakota this year) in my dorm alone. Although most people's SAT scores are above a 1450, and most have taken at least 6 AP's, there are still a scattered few with low 1400, even 1300's in my dorm. The best chess player in the country last year lives down the hall from me while Bowen's roomate trains with Tiger Woods everyday. There is an Indian girl down the hall who donated 12 million dollars to Stanford to get. Pretty much, a lot of people of the same standards apply, but those that make it show a true passion in learning, and will contribute greatly to the University. Interviews are very important, so are essays and teacher recommendations. With that said, I would like to apologize for any distress I may have caused with this false thread. I will now post my own success story. Remember, you will not have enlightened perspective unless you are standing on the soulders of giants, and only then can you reason for yourself your place in this universe.</p>
<p>I am an Ethiopian. I immigrated to this country approximately 5 years ago. Since then, I have dedicated my life to helping the poor and needy from my country, while thriving to learn more about myself. I applied to basically all the top schools and got into all of them, and received full rides from Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Johns Hopkins. Of course, being african american and having such the life I have lived helped me, but I felt I truly deserved what I got. I did research at the Stanford/Harvard/MIT Quest program for 2 years, and won numerous prestigious awards, such as Coca Cola Scholars, Ron Brown Scholars, Toyota Scholars, Gates Millennium Scholars, Ventures Scholars, Young Epidimology Scientists, Stanford Summer Research Program, Carson Scholar, and too many Presidential commendations to count. I graduated valedictorian of my school with a 4.5 GPA and 5's on 10 AP classes, a 1500 SAT, and perfect SAT II scores. I improved my english by volunteering at a local library and church, founded the Math Club and Physics & Astronomy (P&A) Club, was also the president of the National Honor Society, the schools Webmaster and a performer in the International Club. I love math and reading and started a small computer firm (Sam Graphix) to support my family economically. I have done countless hours of research at NIH, NCI, Yale, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and was recently selected by the NIH and the United Nations to be a Young Educator of Politics and Health for excelling children, where I will lead an international forum. </p>
<p>My friend Bowen, "icantieatie," was pretty much the same as I was, him coming over from that small village in China years ago. I guess for him it was a well rounded factor (sports, music, art) and for me it was purely academic and community service. If you want to see his resume you could search for his only thread. When he and I met in Atlant for Coca-cola scholar, we discussed much about college and life in general, and I found that Stanford was the best place for me to go. Yes, I turned down a full ride at Harvard and a joint engineering degree at MIT, but here I am finding the best opportunities. I am now doing research in the Computer Science department and the biology department while Bowen is heading up DNA repair research and working night shifts at the Stanford Hospital Emergency Room. We both hope to go to Harvard Medical School in 3 or 4 years or so. </p>
<p>Anyway, it is getting late and I am tired. Questions? Just hit reply.</p>
<p>wait i thought you said you got a 1600. now it's 1500?</p>
<p>Go get a *<strong><em>ing life. You're gonna look back years from now and be like "Wow, I'm a *</em></strong>ing loser." You wasted your entire youth working with people who have aids. Guess what, people like you are arrogant *<strong><em>s, and this is one chinese kid to another. O yea, this korean kid here says he's coming to shoot your *</em></strong>ing brains out.</p>
<p>O yea, you're a **** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** *****<strong><em>er *</em></strong> * *********** **** **** *********** **** **** ********** **** **** *********** **** **** *****<strong><em>ed *</em></strong> * ******* **** **** *****<strong><em>ing *</em></strong> * *********** **** **** ******** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** ********** **** **** *****<strong><em>ing life *</em></strong> * *********** **** **** ********* **** **** *****<strong><em>fasdf *</em></strong> * *********** **** **** *********** **** **** *********** **** **** ***<strong><em>!!! People like you don't need to post your *</em></strong> *** stats on this board. Go home and suck your dad's ***. maybe he'll pay you for it sometime. And maybe you'll get AIDS. Then you can help yourself. And thats all I have to say about that.</p>
<p>get a life jin sama</p>
<p>you guys are so pathetic. go chill out. grap sum drinks rofl</p>
<p>actually, i admire your accomplishments and also, i am very jealous. I was wondering how you studied for all those standardized test? I have tried from not brushing teeth to not showering, but non of it worked. I applied Stanford EA with 1400 SAT I after 3 tries, no SAT IIs and a low GPA. I was thinking about wat you were saying, how admission process is somewhat arbitrary, do you think Stanford will take a "slacker" like me? I mean i work hard, but i am just stupid i guess :( any advice on studying?</p>
<p>yeah for me it took three tries to get a 1540, first two times I ended up with 1440's both times. What happened to my score resulted from utterly not caring at all, if that makes any sense. After a while, all the tests look the same, everything will just come naturally. Plus there's good days and bad days and you never know if you'll get a hard SAT test or not. My verbal has always been pretty low because I am not a native english speaker, but when I got those 5's on the ap lit and language exams, I found no reason for me to not succeed on an easier test like the SAT's. Hope this helped.</p>
<p>Ur A Geek Aka Nerd Bitch</p>
<p>You Are Cooool~~~ Whoever said you don't have a life, they don't even know what life means...me either</p>
<p>You said you were a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship.....in order to be a Rhodes finalist, you must first attend college; and you wouldn't be posting a chances thread if you had already attended college. Plus the Rhodes selection committee isn't stupid; you have to be sponsored by a college just to enter the competition, and you've made it clear that you have not attended college yet. So please, if you're gonna waste our time with this silly thread, at least be honest in it.</p>
<p>wow........what the heck is ur problem......all u're trying to do i depress me. Dude, that isnt very nice</p>