<p>Maybe one day, I can get to the IMO. I mean just to be there would be a dream. That I will work on and succeed in.
I at least plan on getting to USAMO. If I get to MOP, more specifically, Black MOP, I would be in heaven. But to get to any MOP is freaking amazing.</p>
<p>@TRUFFLIEPUFF: Ha. I remember being like you 4 years ago. In time you’ll realize that all of the colleges you’ve included (including UMich) are reaches.
It’ll hit you hard. There are WAAYY too many variables and things that can easily get messed up.</p>
<p>Don’t be so cocky. Just do what you like and the results will come to you. You can start by getting off of CC. It honestly ruined me–I wish I was off of CC. Come back Junior year summer or something.</p>
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<p>I’m sorry, but LOL.</p>
<p>I do want to say…those are all top 50 universities if I’m not mistaken, possibly top 30.
It’s still hard to get in, unless you were some touted genius.</p>
<p>@ truffliepuff</p>
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<li><p>I got a 1900 in the middle of freshman year and then it boosted it around 350 points by end of sophomore.</p></li>
<li><p>Rice and UMich should almost be safeties for you. I don’t see why there is so much hate. According to my naviance it says that.</p></li>
<li><p>I thought you were a guy too.</p></li>
<li><p>Also, about the looking Asian thing. Math and Science isn’t the greatest way to show passion because there are so many asians in that field. Even if you win awards.</p></li>
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<p>^ ikr? i’m confident i can get into them as long as i work hard - which i will to the maximum. i don’t understand the hate either. i mean, i wouldn’t just choose any colleges as safeties out of the blue. i’ve carefully analyzed and targeted them as safeties for a reason. i’m not stupid.</p>
<p>^^^^ yeah um well John… I have more self-control than you. just because you don’t have any doesn’t mean anyone else doesn’t too. and i do do what i like.</p>
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<p>Very loud LOL</p>
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<p>Um lol? I try to help you and you respond so stupidly…I’m sorry, but I’d be surprised if you got to know about 10% of what I’m capable of.
You have more self-control than me? Listen to yourself.</p>
<p>For the record, I did have safeties and I’m off to Duke. I consider myself pretty successful atm.
You can either respect it when people give you advice or just shut up and ignore it. Retorting back at any gesture of help just shows how immature you are.</p>
<p>You have a lot to learn before you get into any IvyPlus colleges.</p>
<p>I never thought of UMich as a weird safety, TBH. It was my friend’s safety when she applied to it, MIT, and Princeton (Asian like Trufflie). I guess though, since you can apply to UM Early Response and know if you don’t get in by December 1, it can be a “safe” safety, since there’s still time to apply to other schools afterward.</p>
<p>^Isn’t he black? I know that for sure. But that’s pretty interesting…a black guy with a British accent.</p>
<p>They exist. I used to have a British accent.</p>
<p>^^^^^^ I didn’t really consider that “advice.” Isn’t not spending too much time on any online forum a given? And I don’t understand why you say CC ruined you if you’re going to Duke. You’re pretty confusing yourself.</p>
<p>^^Either that, or else she is the most girly guy ever [noparse]:rolleyes:[/noparse]</p>
<p>Let’s get back on topic! Trufflie why don’t you make a thread like this, but for the class of 2013. I don’t think there is many out there. Take this from someone who was obsessed with CC, it really ruined my grades. Without CC, I brought my GPA three points in one year. I would have a break from college searching and come back around this time. That’s what I did and it turned out fine. And my list was WAY different last year. I was planning on going to Simon’s Rock, then getting a BFA in drama, now I’m planning on majoring in English/Print Journalism. Your list will change a lot, mine will too! You have plenty of time. Have a nice summer, good luck!!!</p>
<p>I am thankful I never thought about going to the Ivy’s, they are overrated.</p>
<p>De discussion of me: I am female. I am not British. I mean, really, my location says “Cincinnati.” </p>
<p>Many of my friends, after I was accepted at Cambridge, were similarly excited about the possibility of my gaining a British accent, or at least being able to fake one well.</p>
<p>Also, I believe that the French national football team is almost completely black.</p>
<p>Why didn’t you go to Cambridge?</p>
<p>Well, Cambridge is a collegiate school. I applied to a college I really liked, was pooled (sort of like waitlisting) and was fished/accepted by a college I liked less. Because it was far away while the other was in the center of the city, because it was new while the other was about 500 years old, but mostly because it was all-female :(. I also got cold feet when I thought about studying only linguistics, but there are things I will definitely miss about Cambridge. It was nice, when I talked to an MIT ling professor, to hear that he knew my Cambridge interviewer, who used to work at Harvard, and thought he sort of looked like a giraffe.
But I’m really, really glad I got in. My physics teacher was really interested, since he’s from Pakistan and thinks the world of British education, and asked me if I had been accepted in front of my whole class. It would have been so embarrassing to say “… Um, no.”</p>
<p>@Millancad</p>
<p>you’re a beast</p>
<p>I can never keep track of who is a girl in HSL</p>
<p>I only know that its Truf, eastafro and millancad, and leila</p>
<p>Also, how do you show location in the sidebar?</p>
<p>If you have a location, it is automatically displayed I think.
Profile->About Me->Pencil next to location.</p>