<p>The Bay Area is full of them! The competition is so difficult around here.</p>
<p>“These brilliant CCers you guys know – are they NICE people?”</p>
<p>Generally yes, which makes them even more annoying.</p>
<p>Not me, but a friend from school has a friend who got into Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, and Brown one or two years ago. She chose Brown in the end. She, apparently, had a near perfect SAT, TOEFL, perfect GPA, leadership positions, over 600 hours of community service, blablabla. I’m not sure if she had APs, but since we’re in Mexico, most schools don’t offer them.
I’m glad I don’t know anyone like that. I know someone who’s currently attending Cornell College who was really crazy about the whole application process, but she didn’t really have amazing stats.</p>
<p>We do have some (relatively) talented people, such as kids who score ~2000 on the SAT, take ~8 APs and have an uwGPA of over 3.8. But aside from this, my school is pretty normal, since my area is a largely rural one where nothing interesting ever happens. Though, I have taken an online course with a kid who is extremely competent in computer science, he even won several awards in ethical hacking competitions. So yeah, no USAMO, no perfect SAT scorers, just plain run-off-the-mill overachievers.</p>
<p>I know quite a few…HYSM+ Wharton, Chicago, Berkeley + top lib arts; it really depends on where you live and which student organizations you choose to get involved with.</p>
<p>thankfully not</p>
<p>Nope. Most people at my school want to either go to the local CC or no college at all. There are a couple who end up at UF. Last year we had one kid who went to Duke. No one does major competitions or anything like that. The most we have are AP Scholars. There are 30 out of the class of 2013 (500) that have received one.</p>
<p>I think half the people on here are full of crap.</p>
<p>I knew three perfect SAT/ perfect GPA classmates. All rejected by Ivies and went to Cal/UCLA.</p>
<p>“I think half the people on here are full of crap.”</p>
<p>That’s a pretty conservative estimate. I certainly hope you’re right, or I’m not even going to get into community college.</p>
<p>The ones who resembled CCers most when I was in CEGEP were the ones that were law, med or dental school-bound.</p>
<p>Yeah no, I don’t really know any CCers. Number one at my school takes a lot of APs and is in some sports… awesome GPA of course. But no one I know has done anything remarkable. The people held up on a pedestal at my school are simply over-achievers who take hard classes and excel in them, along with some ECs and good test scores. </p>
<p>It’s funny to speak to people about college and they automatically assume I’m set for all of them-- saying crap like “Oh, you’ll get in.” They have no clue how difficult it is to get into some universities. Mostly because most of them go to the local community college. Rural midwest, sigh.</p>
<p>tl;dr: no, I don’t know any CCers.</p>
<p>I know four.
I wish I were one of the four, but obviously I’m not OTL.</p>
<p>Thank God I don’t! I’m friends with the elitists in my class who are all around top 3% of my graduating year. (I’m not really up to par with them, sadly, haha) Most, if not all, have straight As, took at least 5-6 AP classes including this year and DOMINATE the clubs at our school. By dominating, I mean we cover at least 16 of the 20 clubs or so on campus because we all hold multiple positions. But none of them did anything SPECTACULAR like these CC people… 2200 SATs, 700+ SAT IIs, some in band, some have a sport or two, but that’s about it. We don’t have people interning that often and many of them don’t even have a job. CCers are crazy… I would feel so inferior and worthless in comparison to them… like are we even the same species? LOL.</p>
<p>I honestly think some people on this site exaggerate their accomplishments. It’s like they all try to one up each other. We’re all fantastic students for the fact that we’re on this site, showing interest in our own education and staying on top of our grades and such. So don’t think just because you aren’t in 30 AP’s and Vice President of the United States that you’re not top University material, the qualifications for which are too loose to formula-ize anyway.</p>
<p>I go to a magnet school and theres like 3 different groups of people - the people like CCers (the group with 2300+ SATs and 4.6-4.7 WGPAs), the people that want to be like CCers (2000+ SAT and 4.0-4.3 WGPAs), and the people who think everyone else is crazy (1700-2000 SAT and 3.0-4.0 WGPAs).</p>
<p>I spent my first two years of high school at a competitive college preparatory school, so I did know several people like that, and quite a few did go on to go to Ivy Leagues. I’m definitely not like that myself though.</p>
<p>I know two people who recently got deferred. One from Harvard and the other from MIT.</p>
<p>Their SAT scores are 2330 and 2240 and they both have 4.0’s uw. They’re within the top 5% of my class. I don’t think they have great EC’s though.</p>
<p>Our schools only offers a handful of APs but they’ve both doubled up on sciences and taken the top English and Math classes.</p>
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<p>Not really. The biggest reason is that many, many things sound really good on paper. Not stats-wise but EC-wise.</p>
<p>Yep. I know a girl who plans to take 12+ AP Classes in her junior and senior years. When I warned her that she probably wouldn’t have a life as a result, her response was “I like not having a life”.</p>