<p>At my high school, almost every year the state ap scholar comes from my school. Granted, about 20 kids take Calc AB freshman year.</p>
<p>There is a sophomore at my school who is currently taking AP Physics C, AP Chemistry, and AP Calculus BC, lots of ECs (JSA, ScholBowl, Speech, Math team, SciOly, etc.)</p>
<p>He comes from a family of math geniuses.</p>
<p>His younger brother is a 7th grader taking Honors Algebra 2.</p>
<p>Don’t you think the variation between schools is a problem? How do you compare a B at a really tough school to an A at an easier one? Or president of the student council at a really competitive HS to the president at one where students barely participate? This is coming from a senior who transferred into a competitive school and found it hard to adjust.</p>
<p>^
If the student has high test scores and a “lower” GPA, they probably went to a rigorous school.
And the school sends a report describing its grading scale and such. High schools are ranked too, at least the top ones.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty rigorous public school. We’re better than most of the schools in the state, but not the county. From what I know, most of us end up applying to HBCUs (cause we are a majority black school)</p>
<p>My school is full of CC’ers… So… yes.</p>
<p>“At my high school, almost every year the state ap scholar comes from my school. Granted, about 20 kids take Calc AB freshman year.”</p>
<p>lol im taking calc ab in freshman year and there are 2 other freshmen but they r not in my class so i just ■■■■■ everyone during that class</p>
<p>My freshman year there was a girl who got into both Harvard and Yale, attends Yale. Another girl who goes to MIT. Then the next year, a girl who was the valedictorian attended Columbia (funny story, she was and might still be a drug dealer), and another girl got accepted to both UPenn and Princeton but attends William & Mary on a full tuition scholarship. Out of these four that I know of, three of them are really normal people and had good social lives and did EC’s that were really solid but not ridiculous.</p>
<p>“These brilliant CCers you guys know – are they NICE people?”</p>
<p>some of them are nice but some are really annoying and arrogant and insult others even if they are smart too</p>
<p>I go to one of the top-tier specialized high schools in NYC. Roughly 80% of the people I know are like people on CC.</p>
<p>kind of…
my school is mid-range in terms of academics due to the wide variety of people that attend.
Although there are a good number of people that intend to go to UC schools like UCI and UCLA, their stats aren’t quite “CC material”</p>
<p>lol i’m pretty sure the entire top 10% of my grade uses CC. everyone was obsessively checking it the few weeks before early results came out.</p>
<p>and yeah, i can think of several kids with 2350+ on the SAT, top 20 in the grade (out of 665), self-studied and took 10+ APs, national awards…but even then, most of the ones that applied to harvard and MIT were all deferred. </p>
<p>i’m glad i applied early to somewhere less competitive, haha . early decision + action went really well at my school, though. two kids to yale, two to harvard (hispanic kid w/ double legacy and an athlete), three to penn, seven to cornell, one to dartmouth, one to stanford, two @ MIT, two at brown…etc. (wealthy public school in a wealthy area, btw.)</p>
<p>i’m super happy for all my nerdy friends 
being a CCer and staying informed definitely pays off!</p>
<p>efeens44 reminds me of a daily conversation with my friends on a Friday night. Then I think with my 3.7 GPA and my projected 31 ACT, there’s really no way…</p>
<p>Really Shelton123? How did a drug dealer get into Columbia? I can’t even think of that. All the druggies or drug dealers at our school get into trouble and most of them won’t even get close to Columbia.</p>
<p>I doubt she wrote it on the Common App as an EC…</p>
<p>“Dealing drugs has been an excellent hobby of mine, one that even turned into a career. Through selling illegal substances, I have broaden my horizons and met new people from impoverished nations such as Mexico. Along with experiencing a foreigner’s culture, I have also helped the poor in acquiring items they so desired, call it charity, if you will. Yet the most important aspect of my hobby was the financial stability it provided…”</p>
<p>Seriously, you can turn ANYTHING into a CommonApp essay, the weirder and odder the funnier.</p>
<p>Unfortunately my entire school is full of them. Personally I have a 1740 SAT, 3.4 GPA, and by the standards of some of the people on here, I barely even deserve to go to college.</p>
<p>Guys pack your bags! Its time you visited asia(especially India and China).</p>
<p>My school is 40% Asian, so yeah, quite a few people of CC caliber. Still, many students with ivy-bound stats only aim for our state university (which is a great university nonetheless, but still). Anyone else in this situation?</p>
<p>Absolutely!</p>
<p>A friend of mine got into Caltech early, but she’s still applying to Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Princeton, MIT, Wellesley, Harvard, UPenn and UMD. This is despite the fact that Caltech is her #2 choice, after MIT. The reason she’s applying to so many is because she legitimately thinks she’s not going to get into any of these schools.</p>
<p>She’s an excellent student, National Merit Scholar, probably has close to a 4.0 GPA, and does research for NIH. </p>
<p>Love her, but the college apps are making her absolutely insane.</p>