<p>Most the posters are that thread probably attend under-performing high schools with ridiculous amounts of grade inflation, so when people go on about 104 Weighted GPAs with 5+ APs I just ignore them and wait till College Decisions :).</p>
<p>Plus, if you use that thread, understand that most of the people who post there are posting to brag about their good grades. You’re not going to get a representative sample because anyone who doesn’t have really good grades isn’t going to post there. That’s like looking at a thread for the valedictorians of really high-ranked private schools and trying to use that as the standard every collegebound kid in America has to live up to in order to go to any college at all.</p>
<p>[You’re</a> not alone feeling this way too.](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/544880-collegeconfidential-so-demoralizing.html]You’re”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/544880-collegeconfidential-so-demoralizing.html)</p>
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<p>I’ll second this. I feel exactly the same way, and I found the site last year as a freshman so I can still make use of all the things I’ve learned here.</p>
<p>agreed to the fullest jersey13. no matter what people say about it, it doesn’t matter until you get word from the colleges. like i said, they have requirements they have to meet too…so anything goes! unless you’re severely stupid.</p>
<p>just use this site as a motivator.</p>
<p>Now that I think of it, I realize this is probably how I’d feel in college too. Everyone’s gonna have had like a ~4.0, 2200+ SAT, TASP, Varsity something.</p>
<p>If it makes you guys feel any better I have 2 C’s on my transcript 
I hate science soooo much!! I feel really stupid compared to everyone who has amazing grades on this website</p>
<p>haha that grade thread shocked me a little. I don’t get how people have 103s, etc.
I go to a competitive private school, and I’m struggling to keep my A- in some classes. Honestly, if I get an A in a class, even if its just a 93, I’m ecstatic.</p>
<p>@ nith901: That sounds almost exactly like my private HS! So far I know I definitely have two solid A’s and B+ as my first semester grades, and I’m struggling to maintain an A- in two other classes, while I have no idea what to expect for APUSH. I really don’t know how all these people manage to get above 100% in each of their classes since that is literally impossible at my school… well, we’ll see what happens when college decisions come out, won’t we? ;)</p>
<p>I use this site to feel better about myself.</p>
<p>/arrogance</p>
<p>yeah, on occasion I’ve looked at posted stats and they are mostly pretty noob. A low GPA or SAT is bad, but a high one doesn’t really impress. The overwhelming majority of ECs see are either participation, school level awards, or wins in fake contests like scioly.</p>
<p>lololololol I didn’t mean it that way.</p>
<p>I meant, that I’m happy that I don’t care enough to stress about the fact that I didn’t have perfect SAT scores and whatnot. I actually like enjoying myself and having fun.</p>
<p>Lol.</p>
<p>I doubt I’m going to even put scioly awards on my app in a few years.</p>
<p>It used to, but not anymore.</p>
<p>Wow, this depresses me about scioly awards. I just started up a team in my high school for it…I think I would definitely put my medals on there. I mean why wouldn’t you? Do you really have that many better awards?</p>
<p>But about the grades, yea, it can get depressing when you’re scraping for an A-/A, and you see all these 103’s, but just make sure to keep it in context. Our school has people admitted to Harvard almost every year, and they get only a 94/95 average overall.</p>
<p>i find it encouraging.</p>
<p>after all, there are lots of people who share the same vein of doing multiple passions as I.</p>
<p>I go to a lame public high school in riverside county full of gangbangers and kids who don’t care about school. Around junior year I even started to not care so much and some of my grades dropped to C’s. I got a 2190 on my sat and everyone thinks I’m a super genius and goin to any college I want cuz it’s the highest score a student’s had in like 100 years. This site makes me feel a lot stupider for not applying myself in school. If I had found this site earlier I proabably woulda buckled down and got the A’s I should have. But the past is the past.</p>
<p>^look to the future my friend.</p>
<p>I had nearly the same “spiral-down” as yours. except, in my school, it was simply that the kids were laid back. . . maybe a little too laid back. . .</p>
<p>some of these posts crush my soul like crispy autumn leaves under steel boots at least it’s motivating!</p>
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yess, I sure hope so 
plus college prep schools are supposed to prepare you for the academic rigor of college, so hopefully college will be a little easier thanks to hs</p>