<p>After browsing through much of CC's chance threads and everything, I've noticed that so many people have extremely high GPA's, numerous AP's, unique EC's, or have won some prestigious awards (Intel/done research/cured cancer, lol) yet many still do not get into Ivy League schools that they've applied to. </p>
<p>Is it just me or are the majority of CCer's the cream of the crop for college apps, especially for Ivies, or is the actual competition really that fierce? It makes me feel that I practically will have no chance at HYPS unless I have impeccable SAT scores or have done something humanly impossible. </p>
<p>I haven't made any calculations or anything, but just by looking at this list....
SAT seems to be much higher than the average applicant. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the average SAT here was higher than the average accepted applicant.</p>
<p>I think CC is a good representation of the most competitive tier of applicants. Nevertheless, I wouldn't be surprised if there were far more "geniuses" with superb stats and ECs out there who don't bother/ don't have time to chit chat about colleges, etc. I doubt that the Winners of STS last year ever peeked at CC.</p>
<p>I think that people who post their stats on the chances forum tend to be on the high end (or pretend to be). If you look on less selective college forums on CC you will see a wide range of ability.</p>
<p>I know we are missing some of the posters/lurkers absolute top awards
which would identify them immediately (for eg. certan level of achievement
on STS/olympiad gold medalists etc).</p>
<p>Anonymity on CC is theraupeutic. I am not sure I would frequent as much if
that were not the case.</p>
<p>CC generally represents the upper end of people applying to top schools. Not the "average applicant to HYP"... if you look at the accepted students threads for any of the top universities here, you'll see that most are acceptances.</p>
<p>The average sat's of admitted students to top college is usually lower then that of the people who are worrying about getting it. And everyone is usually in the top 10% of their class and has at least decent ec's.</p>
<p>Why would someone who doesn't care be on here?</p>
<p>i think CC is a good representation of the most competitive group. the majority of other applicants are a few notches down in terms of scores and extracurriculars, and the large number of average students in my school who are applying to these same top schools attest to this.</p>
<p>I think CC is just the group that is more self-motivated and dedicated. They are most likely the middle of the pack or the top. You cannot go off chance threads as people may or may not be lying. In addition, people are more likely to post and give their stats having been accepted than being rejected. You sort of have to take everything within context or look at it like it's abstract art: squint your eyes, tilt your head a bit to the right, and stroke your chin.</p>
<p>'cream of crop vs. average'. Give me a break. Perhaps I'm an old 55 year old prof., but I can say that the purpose of the 25th HS reunion is to personally validate that HS stats predict little. Best to be humble at your age. There are guys and gals fighting overses right now who know a lot more than many on CC. I say this as a liberal, anti-war type. Modesty please.</p>
<p>People on CC definitely tend to have better statistics than the average college applicant. For example, I got a 1950 on the SAT in October and had one person here call it awful.</p>
<p>1950? How do you live with yourself? Kidding...</p>
<p>I think for the top selective schools, CC'ers are just your average applicant. Although the standards set here are just ridiculous. There was a post telling someone that he should definitely retake his 1500/2300 SAT. Haha...</p>
<p>CCer's are just average students (and internationals) that you can find at an urban southern/midwestern public high school. In case that you did not notice, college board's 2007 mean SAT average rose by 700 points to 2200.</p>
<p>Definitly way above average. I went through the MIT Early Decision thread, and the %acceptance was much higher than in the total applicant body, as were SAT scores, GPA, etc.</p>