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<p>lol, I actually WANT to go to OSU…</p>
<p>Sigh… I’ve had dreams of not getting my applications in on time. Since that’s the top stress in my life right now. To the point where I can’t bring myself to working on them… lol…</p>
<p>But I’ve been accepted to UC Davis, so if nothing else… All of my Common Application schools are tough private schools. Uni of Chicago being the easiest on the list… and thats not that easy to get in… :|</p>
<p>i WAS rejected to everywhere i applied, went to community college, and am on track to transfer to UCSD for next fall</p>
<p>so there</p>
<p>I’m accepted to UO, so I’m definitely going to college. But for about a year now I’ve been really worried that I will get into a bunch of schools that I like (not to be arrogant, not of my schools are matches and safeties), but have to go to community college or a CSU.</p>
<p>Ohio State University is a good school. And there’s nothing wrong with CSUs, either.</p>
<p>After getting rejected ED… I’m worried that I will get rejected everywhere else too. .___. rejection sucks.</p>
<p>^^
CSUs are horrible. They aren’t even the main focus of the California public school system.</p>
<p>California tier 1:</p>
<p>UC Berekly
UCLA</p>
<p>Tier 2:
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UC Davis
UC Santa Cruz
UC San Fransisco</p>
<p>Tier 3:
UC Riverside
UC Merced
CSUs</p>
<p>I know I do lol, it’s totally ridiculous but possible.</p>
<p>I fear many things, but among them are attending the local community college whose name I shudder upon seeing it on the bumpers of ancient, rusty, flea-infested, and completely ghetto-ish cars in the Wal-Mart employees parking section.</p>
<p>I fear having to attend either Alabama/Louisiana/Mississippi State University, or even worse, Southern Alabama/Louisiana/Mississippi State University. I imagine that one day I get a B in the class of the infamously difficult teacher everyone sophomore or above at my school fears. And then seeing that B slaughter my entire GPA. I fear that not getting into enough clubs/extracurriculars this freshman year will demolish my entire life’s chances at acceptances into my (undisclosed for reputational reasons) dream school(s). That my SAT score will come back on the 22nd in 10 days with, like, a piece of turd in the 1900s. That my PSAT junior year will have fallen from my 229 this year. That the new tennis coach next year somehow hates me and-</p>
<p>The possibilities are endless, as you can see. It’s almost horrible to think of. At least I have somewhere to get my motivations. Whenever I’m feeling lazy or in the mood to “enjoy life”, I flash into my mind an image of me at the top of my graduating class…from my community college. On TV. Or of me engaged in conversation about someone’s fourteen kids with this annoying/airheaded girl at my school…while we’re in some Southern state university…surrounded by dumb people on all sides…ahhh…instead of where I should be up on the northeast coast learning real stuff with geniuses! Ahhh!</p>
<p><em>determined to get off CC and work on that essay due on Monday</em></p>
<p>I have no such nightmares because I got in to Wharton…but I’m sick with swine flu and on CC instead of partying, so my life isn’t that great.</p>
<p>i didn’t either i don’t want to am just going to pray to god and hope fully i get</p>
<p><em>Gasp!</em>
It’s ChoklitRain! Wow, I remember you from this one post on, er, “Tips from a 2400er”, I believe?</p>
<p>lol you were like, I want a 2400 like a fat kid wants cake…hilarious.
Yeah. So that makes you automatically famous in my book. Especially since I’m still waiting for my recent December 5th SAT scores right now…</p>
<p>So anyway…</p>
<p>Saugus, are CSUs really that bad? All the teachers/administrators at my school (I go to a southern California high school, btw) constantly rave about how a CSU education is comparable to that of most state’s flagship universities (I’m not talking UMich or UVA, more like CU Boulder and UArizona). I find this hard to believe, though, when I see the sub par SAT scores/GPA ranges for most of the CSUs. But their brainwashing is definitely convincing me, it seems.</p>
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Yes. They are HORRIBLE. My worst nightmare. They are only slightly better than community college.</p>
<p>Colorado Boulder has an 87% acceptance rate. It’s not a very good school, either, although it’s much better than CSUs. (My brother goes there.)</p>
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<p>I’m surprised you remember that. Good luck with your December scores(though note that I got in where I wanted without a 2400, as do most people).</p>
<p>^^San Diego State, CSU Long Beach, and those such CSUs are probably better than UC Riverside. Those two are much tougher to get into than the lower tier UC’s and probably much better. So not ALL the CSUs are bad. Sac State is… alright… :/</p>
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Not much of an accomplishment… Riverside is terrible.</p>
<p>Cal State Dominguez Hills is just a flat-out joke.</p>
<p>^ Nope not at all. xD </p>
<p>Still, I’d say San Diego State is edging much closer to tier 2. However, with their new policies taking major portions of the students solely from the area, it’ll decline.</p>
<p>Up here in NorCal, Chico is pretty much a joke. At least people seem to “strive” for Humbolt. The kids that go to Chico are pretty pathetic, looking only to pay money for parties, booze, drugs, and a cheap degree. A kid with a 960/2400 on his SATs at my school last year happily got in.</p>
<p>I don’t fear being rejected everywhere. I’ve accepted that I’ll likely be rejected from most places, and the places I do get into I likely won’t go to. It’s a case of, whichever university costs the least will be the one I go to. Which, at this rate, will be SUNY Geneseo if I get in. But I kind of don’t want to go there. </p>
<p>Luckily I have gotten into two universities so far and one of them, at least, is less expensive than $50,000 per year.</p>
<p>I don’t have to fear anymore!</p>
<p>^I saw that you got accepted to MIT! Congratulations!:)</p>