Class of 2012, do I sound absolutely crazy?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Don't know where to post this. I'm trying couple of different forums... here it goes.</p>

<p>This is my pet theory... plan that I've been turning over in my mind.</p>

<p>I am the salutatorian of my school. The valedictorian is brilliant academically, far more so than I am; I will admit that... as much as it pains me to acknowledge his cheating butt. I don't think we have terrible chances at ivies. (But then again, it is the ivies.) Good scores, strong ECs, although we are rather typical -- he is that "brown" science/math guy, planning to go into the medical field, working as a researching assistant at a university for the summer, etc., while my life revolves around art. (I plan to major in art.) I want to take the liberty to say that I stand out more in terms of ECs.</p>

<p>I am pretty sure he will be applying to mostly ivies, and so am I. His dream school is Stanford. My dream school is Yale.</p>

<p>Our school is not fancy, just your average suburban school. High middle class, I would say. A few go to ivies each year, but I doubt any of them would pick any more than a single student from the same school in this case.</p>

<p>Would it be ridiculous if I proposed him a deal asking him to abstain from applying to Yale in exchange of me not applying to Stanford? I know, some of you are thinking, oh my god is this girl serious, but I actually... am seriously considering this.</p>

<p>Augh. I just wanna wake up one day and find out that I'm in college. The prospects are already getting kinda stressing and I haven't even started looking at my apps...</p>

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<p>It seems like a deal with the devil. You have no way of proving if the other one is doing what they stated, unless on the off-chance they actually get into the school the other one wants. And in that case, you have no recourse. I don’t think it’ll make much of a difference if you both apply; if the Ivies really want you guys, I’m sure they’ll take you both.</p>

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<p>True, true. I’ll just let things be. I probably would’ve been too cautious/shy to ask him, anyways… Thank you for helping me to see this in a logical way!! Hahaha</p>

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<p>The Ivies and Stanford don’t always pick based on you being first or second in your class. It is quite possible a 5 or 10 gets picked first. So unless you two are the only people from your class applying to these two schools, it is not worth it to make such a deal. You should always apply to the schools you want to and not worry about the others.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah, texaspg is right. Three people in my grade were accepted to Yale, one to Stanford, Dartmouth, and Cornell. Only the Cornell student was a valedictorian (of course in my school valedictorian means having over a 4.65 indexed GPA since we don’t have class rank).</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s going to be a huge criteria for Yale/Stanford but I don’t think that’s so weird. A couple of my good friends have done that with me before, I’ve never thought strangely about it unless it was a school I was seriously interested.</p>