<p>A lot of people in the AP’s at my school are. Theres this girl in my AP euro class and our teacher gives a big unit and semester finals worth like 400 points, and he scores them like the exam (1-5) and she got a 4 and I swear to you, she sat in chair and wept for the whole class period like a newborn baby because she didn’t get a 5. And she was freaking out because she thought Harvard wasn’t going to accept her. I’m honestly afraid of what she’d do if she didn’t get in to any of the top schools she’s applying to. She’s very smart, she talks honors, AP’s, does tennis I think and plays the cello. But if you’re freaking out and having a heart attack about a unit test on just 5 chapters, I don’t think you can handle a super competitive school. Idk…</p>
<p>And I think the only good schools people in my school have matriculated too are Harvard (one person three years ago) and Pepperdine (last year) and since we live in state, a lot of people go to University of Washington, which is pretty good.</p>
<p>^^^
Ah yes it is a good thing you do not live out of state then.</p>
<p>I have only met one CC type kid. But I do know dozens and dozens of interesting, grounded, happy students who got into all of the top schools without founding an orphanage, competing in the Olympics or discovering a galaxy.</p>
<p>Half my school are like CC kids. In order to be in the top 10% at my school you have to have a 4.18. </p>
<p>The girl who was supposed to be valedictorian (5.00 GPA) is about to get expelled for hacking onto Naviance (where you submit your common app online) and changing her teacher recommendations because they mentioned her being caught cheating last year and she got deferred from Harvard. The “Top 10” in the grade above mine are scary competitive to the point that they tried to sabotage each other’s college essays when they proofread each other’s in English class. </p>
<p>And a senior at my school also made a nuclear reactor in his basement and got deferred from MIT</p>
<p>^I can’t even imagine that environment, A7512MT. Sometimes I don’t like going to a non-competitive public school, but then I hear stories of schools like yours and I count my blessings.</p>
<p>Adodie- my parents purposefully put me in that school. I moved just before freshman year and my dad chose this town and school 45 minutes away because he thought it would be the best for me. I’m in the top 10% of my class (barely, 4.25) but people make fun of me because I’m interested in art and I take art classes that aren’t weighted like their APs. Its crazy.</p>
<p>A few, but I’m pretty sure many CC’ers inflate their actual abilities to seem more impressive. :p</p>
<p>“Ughh, I hate my 3.95 gpa =CC and im making a 92 in AP Calculus! im so stupid” nobody actually thinks these things unless they’re fishing for compliments. I just gotta say, if you feel like you have to convince others you’re smart, you’re either not as intelligent as you think, have a convoluted self image, or both. Most likely both.</p>
<p>But yeah, I know a few people who are like CC’ers without the constant need to remind everyone of their perfect GPA and 180 thousand AP classes.</p>
<p>^I actually know a ton of people at my competitive public school(including myself) who would be upset with a 3.95 UWGPA.</p>
<p>My public school is not competitive, but the some “AP people” have never seen a B before and would literally die if they got one. I might die as well if I get one xD. Anyway I love my high school, and I wouldn’t like it if too many people at my school were competitive or as competitive as I am.</p>
<p>I’m so glad I live in the less-competitive Midwest…</p>
<p>You are all very pretentious yet pessimistic.</p>
<p>What a really ignorant post. So what if she’s black with a 32/33 ACT, it doesn’t mean she’s a GPA obsessed student.</p>
<p>Dude. I’m a CCer. And since you’re all here, you’re all CCers too. What’s the biggie? I stress about college A LOT, and from my posts here, it might seem like that’s all I do. But (believe is or not :))I have a life, and friends, and hobbies outside of school and even my ECs. </p>
<p>Point is, I don’t think that this “stereotypical CCer” that we’re talking about exists (or at least is super common, anyhow).</p>