<p>Every year it becomes more difficult to get into top schools, CC is partly to blame....</p>
<p>If this site helps people, it just increases the amount of qualified applicants until is 10 years or so harvards acceptance rate may be .5%.</p>
<p>Your opinions appreciated...</p>
<p>No.....Just no. If it's anything, it's people using their resources.</p>
<p>Haha, guess it's good I'm not applying to Harvard in ten years. Or ever. </p>
<p>CC helps people that can't afford expensive counselors or don't have a good counseling system at their schools. It levels the playing field a little- rich kids that go to private schools shouldn't be the only ones to get help with their applications.</p>
<p>If I help somebody decide that Harvard is their dream school, then I have done good. It doesn't matter that I want to go to Harvard myself. I have helped someone make a decision and set a path. That's fine with me.</p>
<p>I don't think this site improves peoples chance of getting into a school.
Most people here are high school seniors anyway, and anything they do at this point is a bit late to have a significant impact on one's chances. </p>
<p>However, I do believe it does increase the chance of attending the right school. People here may find a school that's a great fit for them that they didn't think of before. So if anything, it doesn't affect the competition of well known schools, but perhaps some of the smaller schools that don't get mentioned as often.</p>
<p>i used Harvard as an example.</p>
<p>it applies to most moderate-high schools(colleges).</p>
<p>I think or at least for me, CC relieves the stress of the unkown. It has been the single most informative, helpful resource. I know that reading the stats of all the fabulous kids can be daunting but when people share their good and bad experiences, or answer questions, at least for me it is a real reassurance.</p>
<p>you are missing the point.</p>
<p>No, we get the point, we just don't mind.</p>
<p>Okay, so it might be making the admissions pool SLIGHTLY (there are thousands of applicants to top schools, a small percentage of those are CCers) more competitive- but it isn't going to cause admittance rates to drop by whole percentage points.</p>
<p>Most of the things that REALLY matter in college admittance can't be helped by advice you get on CC- CCers aren't the ones doing your tests and taking your classes and going to your ECs. Sure, they can review your essay, but the elimination of those three typos isn't going to make a terrible applicant suddenly jump to the admit pile.</p>
<p>Most of people who use CC are already strong applicants, so I don't think CC is making them significantly stronger.</p>
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Every year it becomes more difficult to get into top schools, CC is partly to blame....If this site helps people, it just increases the amount of qualified applicants
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the "increased" amount of students is probably statistically irrelevant-the total number of applicants from CC is probably not that great (considering the whole pool of applicants to any particular college)...</p>
<p>The more you read CC, the more this message should sink in:
The admissions process will work out for you in the end and you will be happy with your final choice if you follow the good advice available here.
If you are still obsessing about one school, or worrying about what other people are doing, then you have more to read and learn.</p>
<p>seriously, CC should have freshman students. everyone on this site seems to be panicking hs seniors.</p>
<p>^really? ive noticed lots of freshmen on here</p>
<p>I'm applying to Brown because its my perfect dream school. But, this site has helped me do everything before that. I've learned alot about college admissions, become realistic (interpret data--CDS) and learned about schools otherwise I wouldn't of known about. For instance Grinnell, I'm so glad I found it using this site that I would otherwise skip over, its now my second choice.</p>
<p>I wish I learned about this site earlier. Our counselors seem to make the effort not to get to know students.</p>
<p>the freshmen here are a lot more noticeable (nobody will miss an extra junior here or there, but posting here as a freshman tends to provoke the "get a life while you still can" responses).</p>
<p>that being said, a lot of seniors lurk here instead of posting.</p>
<p>I have gotten that a lot...</p>