<p>some people in high school were a joke</p>
<p>It really, really depends, both on the high school, the college, as well as the individual, their goals, and the people they choose to surround themselves with. </p>
<p>College is the next stage of life after high school. It's still not work and full self-sufficiency (in most cases), but it's a different world, with its own heroes, motivations, and rules...in most cases, far different than the heroes and guidelines encountered in high school. </p>
<p>Recognize that there is a huge change in terms of the "world" you're living in, and that most people change dramatically during this time. </p>
<p>Adjust accordingly.</p>
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<p>A certain Bowling For Soup song comes to mind. :D</p>
<p>i disagree. college IS very high school like or I should say college students can be very high school like. Most gravitate towards: friends from h.s., or people just like them. Both of my D went out of state and were amazed at how many people the others knew and how they hung out with them all the time. Both observed the same judgmental attitudes about everything from: where you are from (outsider vs. insider), your major (looks of horror if you say mathematics), your appearance (do you wear the name brands or not), your race (that one was more behind closed doors than so obvious). This is not to say COLLEGE is h.s. but some people still have alot of growing up to do.</p>
<p>That's one of the perks of going to an elite private college: everybody's from all over the place (no high school cliques) and everybody's probably felt like a geek at some point in their life.</p>
<p>Well, I found someone that was interested in smashbros, we met up, I've messaged/called him and haven't heard since -_-</p>
<p>These silly college partyers, thinking they're too cool for my aspergers?</p>
<p>It would really be nice if people mentioned what high school they went to (or at least its general type) as well as the college they're comparing it to. </p>
<p>Pretty sure that if you attend Chico State, there might not be as much difference from high school as if you attended Princeton, for example.</p>
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I agree with nbachris, if you go to an elite private school, you'll find that college isn't like high school THAT much... No one cares if you're a math major or if you aren't wearing clothes with Lacoste all over them, or if you hang out with different races.</p>
<p>Interesting but uniforms in private schools kind of make private school kids judge based on the right SHOES in Atlanta and it DOES matter when off campus what lacoste shirt someone has or vera bradley bag....i do tell my D's that in college especially the highly rated ones all of them are geeks pretty much to have gotten in.....I guess there are levels of geekdom.</p>
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I meant elite private colleges, not high schools. At the top colleges in this country, kids probably worked too hard in high school and are working too hard in college to be too preoccupied with what vera bradley bag you have or what Lacoste shirt you're wearing or whether you're a math or a history major (off-campus or on-campus).</p>
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<p>Come on; we both know that's not true for the vast majority of college students, including those at the very best schools.</p>
<p>^Seriously. Haha. </p>
<p>Totally as an aside and not particularly in refute to your comment hotpiece, but I happen to know several trust fund baby slackers attending elite privates. I'm sure it's only the tip of the iceberg. I've heard comments about many elite schools being very similar to HS in a sense that there is a large and powerful contigent of people that care about money and looks too much (and these people actually do have influence, unlike the token skanky high school head cheerleader). Have you ever seen The Skulls? Back to real life, Northwestern and its very active Greek organizations (more than 40% of the campus is in a frat or sorority) come to mind. I think some of these places would even be worse than my relatively down-to-earth public high school.</p>
<p>I go to a school were money and power mean a lot, but people don't put you down because you don't have it or because you don't have a designer bag. It's really not THAT serious, at least as serious as it was in high school. Sure people have cliques, but they are also very accepting to meeting new people and doing different things. </p>
<p>I went to a generic high school, much of what you'd see on Laguna Beach, and now I go to an elite private college. The differences are marked.</p>
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<p>I do agree with you.</p>
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<p>Way to take my argument, trivialize and re-interpret it through a four year-old's perspective, and present it as fact.</p>
<p>You are wrong, far moreso than hotpiece. Elite schools are nothing like what you picture them to be. Northwestern is nothing like you're describing it to be, and "The Skulls" was a terrible film from the late nineties, not a documentary about Yale. </p>
<p>There are insanely few trust fund baby slackers at any school. You honestly believe that a white male with mediocre grades and accomplishments can be accepted by a Harvard because of his money? </p>
<p>Fifty plus years ago, sure. Nowadays? Only if his father is in a position of extreme power (a senator, for example), not just wealthy.</p>
<p>Um, I wasn't using your argument. Notice the "totally as an aside and not in refute to your comment, hotpiece" introduction to the paragraph. I think the reference to a fictional movie reinforced that <em>rolls eyes</em>. It was just conversation. Thanks for the insult/personal attack, though :/. </p>
<p>Except hotpiece's assertion that money and power at her school was important, but not as serious in high school, was interesting. 'Cause money and power meant nothing at my HS and doubtful will mean anything at my public uni. And also, my comments about Northwestern had some basis in fact, as it was too preppy and richy for me. I was accepted. I visited. Was not impressed, although I'm sure the people there are fine and real smart. It just wasn't the environment I was looking for, and yes it was noticeably not preferable to my state school. And finally, yes you can buy admission to top schools, I know people who have. </p>
<p>And just to clarify that last paragraph was a serious response :P.</p>
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<p>Haha, oh really? Think about it this way. In high school, there were college admissions at stake. At an Ivy League...huh? </p>
<p>Aside from the premeds and engineering students, I don't think anyone at Dartmouth really works "too hard." You've earned yourself a spot at one of the nation's best universities, now take a step back, pat yourself on the back, and have some fun.</p>
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<p>Oh you'd be surprised! Read "The Price of Admissions" for some examples. Perhaps not Harvard, but Duke - yes.</p>
<p>kids go to elite private colleges are full of themselves.
and..when they were still highschool kids,they were already full of themselves I guess.lol</p>
<p>You can buy a spot at any college in the country, it justs costs a lot more at a Harvard or Yale than it does elsewhere. But not very many people can. I saw a quote from a former admissions officer in which he said that Yale usually has 4-5 development admits per class (out of around 1350 total students). So, with enough money, you really can buy a spot anywhere.</p>
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<p>You clearly didn't take away much from that visit, then. You'll always find "preppy", rich kids when a school has an elite school of journalism. </p>
<p>You should have been spending that time around the Northwestern econ majors, or a few of the English/engineering/science people. Some of them are really cool. </p>
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<p>Yeah, yeah....read the book, violently disagree with the author's conclusions and reasoning. </p>
<p>You seem relatively intelligent, so let's stick to our own arguments, not those of sensationalist authors, alright?</p>
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<p>Wow, you can't be serious?? Wealth can buy you something like that?? Get out of here...</p>
<p>If you had been paying closer attention, you'd note that no one was arguing that wealth and/or power couldn't get you into a top school. </p>
<p>Instead, the argument was that for a school like Harvard, the combination of wealth and power would have to be extreme, to the extant that the very few that would qualify because of this don't form any type of significant percentage or social force at said university, and hence, are largely irrelevant.</p>