Does browsing here ever depress you?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>It seems like every time I pop on this site just to have a look around everyone has fantastic stats. 2400s, 36s, 19 APs with all 5's, helping orphans with AIDS in Africa, the works.</p>

<p>So I'm happy for them, thinking all the things they'll achieve later on in life and how they will be accepted anywhere, everywhere.</p>

<p>And then I'm sad. I'm sad because I know I can probably never compete with them, and any comparison between them and me by adcoms will undoubtedly result in my rejection.</p>

<p>Now don't get me wrong. My stats aren't too shabby either, but it when I'm here it almost always feels like everyone has stats that are all better than mine. I may have set ridiculously high expectations for myself, especially seeing my sister get into (and will be attending) Harvard, but its just such a long shot in my eyes sometimes for ME to get into anywhere nice. I haven't cured cancer. I haven't designed some twenty day program to educate the poorest of the poor in India. I haven't jumped out of my mother's womb with a TI-89 doing multivariable or something. I haven't trekked to Antarctica to find some species of penguin never discovered before. And yet it seems like each and every one at HYP has done one (or maybe all) of these things.</p>

<p>Sometimes I lie awake at night and think, "What am I doing with my life?"</p>

<p>Sorry for this rant/vent/whatnot, and sorry if it's a little incoherent. I spent the day doing APUSH summer hw.</p>

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<p>don’t worry you’re not alone, everytime i start feeling good about college i come here. so i don’t get too cocky.</p>

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<p>If it makes you feel any better, I’ve never used a TI-89.</p>

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<p>I know exactly how you feel…it’s like no matter how hard I work or try, I can never reach the level of some people on this site…</p>

<p>I wonder how I can work more and achieve more, but I don’t see how I can fit any more hours in my day or work any more. Ah well, que sera, sera.</p>

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<p>Sometimes I don’t know if I am overreacting or overachieving.</p>

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<p>Yes. These people on here are amazing, and I’m not. :(</p>

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<p>Always. It always depresses me.</p>

<p>But, actually, if you never go into the chances threads, you don’t feel as depressed :)</p>

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<p>Yes, and the worst part is most of it’s not my fault (e.g. parents getting kids ahead in math during elementary school, having someone to to science research with etc.).</p>

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<p>Please take everything posted on this site with a grain of salt. Not everything ia as what is posted here. Lot of kids tend to embelish their accomplishments. You don’t have to do extraordinary things as long as you have given it your best shot to be successful in life and in the end that is what counts. Some stats i see on this site makes me wonder about their feasability . If people have done all those then more power to them and I salute those sincere ones. Don’t get disheartened you will get in where you want to go.</p>

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<p>^Very True.</p>

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<p>No… it’s more like nostalgia now… I just help out on CC. I could however identify with many of the feelings current CC’ers have about the admissions process.</p>

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<p>Yes… So now i avoid threads like “post your sat score” </p>

<p>Those threads basically consist of people who did well bragging about their scores… There’s no reason to bother with those kinds of threads unless you want to brag as well.</p>

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<p>there are like three threads on this a month,
and the answer is always yes</p>

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<p>yep. it makes me wonder if i will be able to get into ANY schools! so i just pretend that all of these super-geniuses are just little kids trying to make others feel bad :)</p>

<p>i refuse to believe that people can be born smart when i need to work for it.</p>

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<p>It really does make you feel apprehensive. </p>

<p>At the same time, it can be used as a motivator.</p>

<p>Very true OP, I sit at night wondering what I’ve accomplished also.</p>

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<p>All the time. It kind of triggers my inferiority complex.</p>

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<p>This site is plain depressing to me.</p>

<p>But… it makes me motivated… because then I’m like… well I need to turn myself around.</p>

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<p>yeah. i totally agree with you guys. but like the person above me, i’ve benefitted from this site a lot. i would’ve never thought about self studying aps. lol…</p>

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<p>The chances thread, most definitely, I don’t go on there anymore.</p>

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<p>What annoys me/depresses me is when people who quite obviously have those stats are posting in this very thread :confused: And who knows, maybe some people are thinking that I’m being a hypocrite saying this</p>

<p>But in all honesty, after you’ve browsed enough you realize that the majority of CCers don’t have those stats. The minority does, but they’re the only ones who are posting their stats (for obv. reasons).</p>