<p>I was initially going to do that since most of our class hates her :rolleyes:, but that would probably send her into a depression. She had a break down in school because her rank dropped from 3 to 4, and according to her, “no one gets into Yale being number 4”. Ironically, the reason why she was bawling was because an Asian replaced her.
Oh, thought I’d add: she’s applying to only Yale and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Lol. That girl is psycho. When she gets rejected from both schools it’s gonna be a major wake up call.</p>
<p>Dartmouth? Who’s gonna write a peer evaluation for her that’s going to be halfway decent if virtually everybody hates her? Though I suppose you could write your own and say that somebody else wrote it. Having written 2 for my friends, there isn’t any place for the evaluator to identify himself/herself other than a line asking for the person’s name.</p>
<p>Is this girl hot? Or pretty? Random question, I know; I just thought I’d ask.</p>
<p>(To my knowledge) she doesn’t know that Dartmouth requires a peer evaluation :)</p>
<p>Picture Rosie O’Donnell with glasses and long curly hair.
Is that your type? If so, then yes she’s hot.</p>
<p>Oh god. As fat as Rosie O’Donnell?</p>
<p>Imagine her face when she finds out Dartmouth requires a peer evaluation.</p>
<p>Yep, as fat as Rosie O’Donnell.</p>
<p>She has “friends” that act the same way she does, so she’ll probably beg them to bs the hell out of the the peer evaluations.
She’s convinced herself that no one outside of the top 10 in our class will be awarded scholarships, since her brother was number 11 and got crappy financial aid. :rolleyes:</p>
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Yeah I was planning on putting the 7 in the place of the 3, however I will be somewhere new halfway through 2013 (maybe) and 2017 seems way to far away haha.</p>
<p>This site taught me the importance of ECs and how much of a crapshot college admissions are but, i still haven’t changed. I hate comm service and, clubs except for the physician club. I do what i love not what looks good on an app. </p>
<p>I’ll take my chances with good grades, a club and, soccer giving me a hook.(Plus, i’m black) meh, i can’t be bothered to kill myself over getting into an ivy. Eh, i also learned that i’m not as brilliant as i thought when i saw some of the GPA whores on this forum. It made me feel inferior. </p>
<p>“ZEN VALEDICTORIAN RIGHT HERE”</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing your story! 
However, do not forget that an unweighted 3.83 is fantastic, and that MANY people would kill for it in this world. Please don’t call it measly, especially in the world off-CC.</p>
<p>CC has been awesome for me too. Although I’ve always had good grades (Mostly A’s and 1 B/1 B+ or A-), and although the average CCer would scoff at me and my 2080 SAT (gasp!), I’ve found out a LOT of great stuff about my small liberal arts schools. I have NEVER had the Ivy phase, which kind of alienates me, but I’ve been able to talk to some great people and become extremely educated in college admissions. I’ve fallen even more in love with small LACs, and CC is helping me deal with the wait until April 1. I have discovered that I REALLY want to work in the admissions office wherever I go…I find the whole process fascinating.</p>
<p>It’s made me more focused and introduced me to my dream school.</p>
<p>CC is like the only forum now that i actually have bookmarked, because i realized all the other forums were just people constantly saying the same thing and arguing with each other. of course, this might also be somewhat applicable at times to CC, but CC helped me get into college so i feel kind of attached to this website. </p>
<p>i would never have been able to be so certain of applying as a bio major to cals at cornell if it weren’t for all those decisions threads, and i wouldn’t have been so certain either if it weren’t for all those ppl describing cornell. </p>
<p>i made this account before my junior year. i remember going on this website to see the sat discussions threads and how i would try to calculate my score from the answers that were posted there. surprisingly (or maybe not so surprisingly), CC was pretty good at remembering the sat questions and knowing which one was the right answer. my predicted sat score happened to be right in the range that i predicted from those answers =)</p>
<p>thank you cc!</p>
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<p>CC made me an elitist and more dull than I was in middle school. I had such a dull outlook on high school during my freshman year, and now as a sophomore I have to fix that. -___-</p>
<p>Oh well.</p>
<p>I’ve always been a good student, so CC hasn’t changed that. The main things that CC did for me were to give me much more insight into college admissions and to introduce me to self-studying APs.</p>
<p>CC gave me both hope and despair.</p>
<p>CC is kind of scary.</p>
<p>All these people with research, volunteer, debate/MUN/other club leadership experience, and/or stellar recs from their teachers make me feel inferior in comparison. I have a hard time joining clubs and in general talking to or being around other people I don’t really know (i.e. teachers/professors, most other students). I’ve never been in a club before this year (my junior year) and even then, I’m only in two clubs and I don’t participate that much in them.</p>
<p>I’m also pretty slow (and sometimes bad) at putting what I think or feel into words, and to a lesser extent thinking in general, so I usually get pretty screwed over for class participation and in-class or SAT essays. (This is why I’m scared of interviews and a lot of other things that involve conversations; I’m afraid I won’t be able to respond intelligently.) Whereas a lot of CC people seem to be quick on their feet, what with debate, science/quiz bowl, etc. and a decent number of 11-12 essays. (I attribute my 10 essay to large-ish handwriting.)</p>
<p>Sure, I have decent grades and test scores, but most of the qualified applicants to the colleges I really want to go to do as well. So I get the feeling that I’m kind of screwed over by my personality when I see those chances threads or the admission decision threads.</p>
<p>Like op, I went through some “chance” threads during fresh/soph year and got a wake up call. I already took academics seriously before CC, but I decided to enroll in more AP and honors classes after. And I joined another club at school. I don’t know if it paid off in the long haul because my culm. GPA sank during sophomore year because of an overload of honors classes. I recently got accepted into 2 unis (one of which I may likely attend) and I got decent scholarships to both. But I know that I could have still gotten in w/o the extra rigor of coursework added on by those 3 honors classes. In addition, my GPA would be higher, and therefore, my scholarships would have been A LOT better. I would have had a better social life during sophomore and definitely would have had less stress. ■■■… And in 3 months, I will hear back from my #1 choice, UW. If I get in, it was worth the year wasted, if not, year wasted! Anyway, that was more of a rant, and didn’t really contribute to this thread, but my point watered down is to not let yourself misinterpret info. you get off of CC.</p>
<p>CC made realize I’m not solely competing against my classmates; I’m competing against you guys. This scared me a bit, though I eventually came to realize that CCers make up a minuscule percentage of the applicant pool. We over complicate admissions to a certain point on this site (“2200 SAT? RETAKE”), but in a good way: it makes us improve our game, and look even better against the non-CC applicants.</p>
<p>Plus, I now know what self-studying and a “zen valedictorian” are, and the SAT prep methods I’ve found on here have been amazing. I’m much better informed about the college admissions process, and I first heard of several of my top-choice schools on here. Thanks, CC!</p>
<p>What is a “zen valedictorian” 
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<p>[Study</a> Hacks](<a href=“http://calnewport.com/blog/]Study”>Study Hacks - Decoding Patterns of Success - Cal Newport)</p>
<p>^ Was going to post that.
College Confidential + Cal Newport is a killer combo.
How to excel + how to excel wisely.</p>
<p>I bought his book for a freshman I know.</p>