<p>This initially got posted in the wrong category and I can't delete it from there, so just so everyone else can see it as well:</p>
<p>Hey, to all you college hopefuls, I just want to say that this is a great website for a bunch of information about higher education. However, one thing I will say coming from a person who used this religiously all last year as a college applicant: people on here can be harsh. And not in the "real world brutally honest" kind of way, but in the "you're not good enough, why are you even asking" kind of way. I tried being chanced and stuff like that, but in the end, it didn't matter how these people perceived my grades. They weren't admissions officers, and if they were, not for the college I wanted to attend. They were snobby people with ridiculously high SAT/ACT scores and an out-of-this-world GPA - the kind of people who couldn't understand that not everyone could/can be like that, and shut them off at the sight of an ACT score below a 30. Every year, schools look for something different in the population of students they want to admit. I didn't have good SAT scores at all, but I rocked all of my college essays and that's what made the difference. Yea, numbers are the way colleges compare students before they delve into their personalities. They're the way colleges pick out the really unpromising students from the geniuses. But they don't just stop there, which is the good news. They look for personality and drive, and any other characteristics they deem a good fit for their school, through your essays and recommendations. This is long, but it's just to tell the hopefuls that all isn't banked or lost when it comes to your test scores. I beat out the senior class president from the IB program for Boston College and trust me, her scores were all more glamorous than mine.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone in their journey!</p>