<p>In my area, i don't know a single person who does research, studies for the USABO, USACO, USAMO, has 14 AP classes, etc. I'm the number one student in my class and people think I'm getting into Harvard with a 35 on my ACT. If only it were that easy.</p>
<p>NO THANK GOD.
Lol, I have a 3.9 GPA, 33 ACT, 7 APs, ranked fourth, and zero good extracurriculars and my guidance counselor said, “There’s no way MIT could deny you with those stats!” People are really naive here.</p>
<p>Yes, one of my friends is fairly similar to CC people, almost made it to USAMO, 4.0, high SAT, tons of APs, and so on… They still got deferred by MiT though…</p>
<p>I’m finding it increasingly difficult to explain to my peers that I don’t have a shot in hell of getting into an Ivy/Stanford/Duke etc. The conversation is usually like this:</p>
<p>“OMG dude you have like a 4.0 omg!”</p>
<p>“Haha yeah thanks.”</p>
<p>“OMG plus that crazy high, never been done before because our school is stupid 35?! No way?! Harvard is probably like recruiting you dude!”</p>
<p>“Not really. I have to like cure cancer if i want to go to Harvard.”</p>
<p>Almost my whole school. We all are typical CCers.</p>
<p>Heck no, my school is so ignorant over these things. People see my 1960 sat and think I’m sooooo smart. Granted I am very very smart for my school, but not by CC standards, I also have arguably some of the best ECs in my grade, but again, not by CC standards. Many school mates tell me I have a good shot at Harvard or MIT, I take it as a genuine, but I know they only say it because they haven’t seen CC.</p>
<p>This thread reflects all the thoughts I’ve had since joining CC. Because I have a 4.0, 2340 SAT, and went to a summer program at a certain college, everyone was like " yeah you’re golden for X school! You’ll definitely get in!" Flat out rejected ED. The look on this one sub 2000 SAT, B student’s face ( who wants to go to this school) when I told him was priceless. He fully expected both me to get in early and himself to get in regular and was shocked when I didn’t get in with my “2340 wow”</p>
<p>I know 1 dude</p>
<p>One of my best friends totally fits the CCer bill. I don’t want to give too many details to protect her privacy, but she’s pretty much a professional singer with straight As in AP classes to boot. Don’t know how her test scores are, but the rest of her life is so fabulous that I don’t really think they matter (and I’m sure they’re good).</p>
<p>She graduated last year, so I’m pretty much the “Harvard-bound” senior this year (2350, 4.0 GPA, etc). Nobody else seems to realize that I’ll likely be rejected, but whatever.</p>
<p>I might, but I don’t know enough about them to know if they’r REALLY like people on CC (or what people on CC claim to be anyways)</p>
<p>I know I’m no way near the top stats to CCers. lol I have a very nice GPA and okay decent ECs (nothing that’s been published or in scientific data records lol). There’s a couple top stat classmates that are Ivy bound. They’re involved enough, not a thousand or so activities, but still pretty good ECs.</p>
<p>Well, there was this chick who was number one in my class and who now attends Harvard… She had maybe 15 or so APs? Her and two other guys had around the same amount.
I don’t think she was in uber prestigious competitions, though. She’s still insanely intelligent! I wish I was like her. >__<</p>
<p>Also, I understand what everyone else here is saying. My mom thinks I’m going to my top choice and I’m like no. I try to explain the competition I face with 25k+ kids vying for about 1,200 spots, but with no luck, lol. I wish I could show her CC kids. T__T I don’t want her to be disappointed when I get rejected. xD</p>
<p>I know one, and I HATE talking to them. They are so arrogant and annoying.</p>
<p>Sometimes I wonder if the CCer actually exists. I mean, most people say “I’m not anywhere near as annoying/awesome as other people on here.”</p>
<p>Nope, and I’m glad. Then I’d be like depressed all day lol</p>
<p>We know parents and students who are like some of those here on CC but they live in communities in New Jersey and Westchester County, NY, not up where we live in cow and apple country. In the towns around our part of NYS a jaw-dropping SAT score is a 1900 and the school-of-choice for the tippy top of the senior class is Cornell or RPI.</p>
<p>Without the extensive research on college, people are VERY naive. I’m smart, but by no means brilliant. I’m applying early decision next year to Claremont McKenna with a 3.9, hopefully 2100 SAT, but granted I have a ton of EC’s (with leadership positions) and national recognition. People say “You’re the smartest kid in our school! No school would ever deny you!” You have to think of it from the school’s perspective. They want the best, most diverse class, not the best students. They want X number of nerds, X number of jocks (and at top schools the jocks still have to be brilliant academically,) etc… you get the picture. Many high schools have a myriad of academic powerhouses, sending 20% or more of their students to ivy league, etc… My school is in the top 5% of the nation, which first off is an undeserving title, and second off, (almost) everyone here is an academic neophyte. Good luck to all of you on CC!</p>
<p>yup. the top kids at my school are insane.
then i went to this summer program and all the kids i met there were… i can’t even begin to describe. i wouldn’t be surprised if one of them actually cured cancer and was hiding it from us or sth.
compared to them i don’t even know how i got into my state’s flagship.</p>
<p>These brilliant CCers you guys know – are they NICE people?</p>
<p>I think a big part of it is that I live in the midwest and the competition here isn’t nearly as cutthroat as it is in like New England and the west coast. My school has 6 AP classes lol and one of them is studio art, so I’ll graduate with five. </p>
<p>Part of me wishes I never found this website so I could’ve continued my blissful ignorance, applied to Harvard early, and been denied.</p>