<p>^I completely forgot.</p>
<p>NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT FINANCIAL AID!!!</p>
<p>I'm always telling people that they shouldn't consider money and that they could always get fin aid and loans, but nooo.</p>
<p>I can so sympathize with many of you. While my friends aren't so oblivious as to believe that Ivies are easy to get into, they have a little too much confidence in me. Many believe that I'll get into Columbia no problem just because of my grades and SAT scores, and while I wish I could afford to be that naive, it depresses me every time to think, "Okay, so if I'm rejected, what would you say?"</p>
<p>It just... I don't know. If I'm rejected from all my top choices, I'd feel like a failure admitting that to everyone who's so confident about my chances. To make things worse, my parents have been blabbing my scores all over the place. My dad told his friend (whose alma mater is my first choice) about my SAT and SAT II scores, and I'm just wondering how many other people he's going to tell. There's nothing wrong with being proud and telling people that in itself, but with it comes the expectation that I'm going to get into an Ivy. I don't want to be the kid that all the Chinese parents whisper about after they find out at a dinner party that I failed to get into any of the schools I wanted.</p>
<p>I wish I had more confidence in myself.</p>
<p>me, on the other hand, knew one girl who thought she was all-that. argh, she was one of those people who always has to remind you that she's taking the toughest courseload... even if she's just telling you about something someone said in class about the color of her shirt, she would have to say, "in AP bio today" or "Honors math this morning." And to top it all off, she once said, "Today all honors precalc had to take a test... but all the stupid people [how she referred to the people taking the regular classes] didn't have to go."</p>
<p>Then she'd criticize my cirriculum, etc.etc. She could make me want to pull my hair out sometimes.</p>
<p>ANYWAY, yes, she had great GPAs and classes, but nothing else, really. Did some sports here and there, and held a leadership position for some school club. But that was it. No hooks of any sort. ....And she thought she was a shoe-in at MIT. </p>
<p>Ha!</p>
<p>I'm kinda glad she was ignorant.</p>
<p>Precocious, I'm curious. Did you friend get a nasty shock in the form of a thin letter?</p>
<p>hahaha, i love these posts. especially with the parents and the friends of parents ! like in "the girl next door" movie, the guy was trying to get a scholarship to UPEnn or some other great school, so the guy's dad's best friend says "well, michael, I'm sure you'll get that scholarship", and the guy is kinda like " well, thank you mr. x, but it's very tough" Gosh, i just love the parents and the old folks, so optimistic, like if you say "well, colleges look for a lot of meaningful ECs and then the grandpa says 'well, i know you did some stuff there, kido' " and its kind of like 'uh, no, not really, at least not good enough for the competition" ....</p>