<p>I just wanted to ask people, does reading this forum make you more stressed/nervous for college than you were before you found it? I know it has made me a lot more stressed. I know this is like the top 5%'ers on this board, but its made me feel like I'm going to get rejected everywhere next year unless I do nothing but school work and BS EC's over this summer, haha. Anyone else feel this way sometimes?</p>
<p>No, it makes me laugh…</p>
<p>No, the opposite actually. Watching clearly over-qualified students fret over being accepted to colleges or worry about their superior grades is actually quite humorous to me. Keep in mind that the people on here who get accepted to the schools you’re looking at are probably in the top 25% of the accepted students for that college. Meaning that there are plenty of kids who have worse grades/scores/ECs and get in just fine.</p>
<p>Laugh as in “I can’t believe these people are so worried about every little thing” kind of laugh?</p>
<p>It’s caused me more stress in the sense that it gives way to procrastination. I never really bought into the whole idea of turning yourself into an academic machine for the sake of getting into some lofty college. Chance threads don’t impress me anymore. </p>
<p>Mostly, it has been pretty informative in allowing me to research different schools and what I need to do to get in them. That causes “stress” for some people, I guess. It also tends to be populated by some of the most intelligent but equally immature individuals on the internet, and that can be entertaining.</p>
<p>Well my chance threads never really get answered anyway because they don’t include the words “ivies” “HYPS” or “Stanford”. I just want to go to a big state school, but hardly anyone on this website wants to settle for that.</p>
<p>Where’s your thread? I’ll chance you. I have no idea how to “chance” but I’ll give it a whirl.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1327141-chances-my-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1327141-chances-my-schools.html</a></p>
<p>Haha it only got one reply from a month ago or so. Oh well.</p>
<p>No, like others above, it amuses me.</p>
<p>Freshman year it stressed me out: “OMG HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET INTO COLLEGE WHEN PEOPLE THIS EXIST?!?!”</p>
<p>Then I realized how small of a percentage this kids are on a grand scale, and that it’s nothing to stress over. I don’t know of anybody in real life who has actually done anything like what many CCers seem to have achieved; ECs deemed “mediocre” on here are still pretty impressive in my book. & when I read about the kids freaking out over a B in multivariable calc. or linear algebra as a high schooler, I think of the many people I know who try their damnest to succeed in regular level classes in everything, but just can’t “get it.”</p>
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<p>You have been officially chanced to the best of my abilities. Peace always to you and your kin.</p>
<p>Haha, thanks. Penn States my first choice, and since 2/3 of their decision is GPA based, I feel like I have a good chance there. But a lot of CC’ers don’t know that I don’t think, so when they say PSU is a reach it makes me nervous.</p>
<p>and yeah lldm you’re right - I just know college is getting more difficult to get into every year, and when kids are breeding for top schools when they’re age 3, like some of the kids on here, it freaks me a little. middle 50%s are getting higher, haha</p>
<p>I like it, comparing my schedule to others makes me feel like my schedule is not anywhere near as “impossible” as some people here. and I get a good laugh at some of the peoples problems here “OMG MY FIRST B WHAT SHOULD I DO , OMG LIFE IS OVR”</p>
<p>I actually think it relieves stress. I enjoy laughing at the people who think their lives (or college chances, same thing really) are completely ruined because they got an A-. Or the people that think 5-6 AP classes might not be enough. These people amuse me.</p>
<p>Honestly, when I ask for a “chance”, it’s more out of pure curiosity than nervousness that I won’t get in. It’s really hard to ask for advice on anything academic without coming off condescending, honestly.
But yeah, if your schedule isn’t all APs around here, you aren’t going anywhere. Even if you don’t take the AP because you hate the class (ahem, english) and you’re actually in APs TO LEARN THINGS YOU LIKE. I feel like a lot of people around here are more over competitive than actually enthusiastic about learning.</p>
<p>Honestly it provides me with a challenge at school. If we think of ourselves as the top tier at our current schools, we start slacking and settling for less. Knowing, however, that all these people are above me just provides me with that incentive to step it up and show people who’s boss.</p>
<p>so the thing is, I KNOW I’m not going to get into a tippity-top school. my grades are fabulous, but I don’t really have any ECs, and beside that, I’m pretty much average. but see, I’m 99% sure I’d be deeply unhappy at such a competitive school. one of my sister’s best friends goes to harvard, and although she doesn’t admit it, she’s stressed beyond belief and absolutely miserable. my dad went to harvard back in the day, and he was miserable, too. I don’t want to kill myself working to get into a “good” college and then kill myself working at college just so I can kill myself at a “good” job. my happiness has always been my first priority. I love learning, and I love getting good grades - these things make me happy! they do! and I think CC just inspires me to work just a little harder. that’s why I’m here. :)</p>
<p>it used to, back when I thought people could get into harvard now the same way they could 50 years ago. now it helps relive stress though</p>
<p>Actually, it does. You know why? The majority of the people here are SO talented, and in comparison, I feel like a low-class wimp. God, with all your 2400s, 4.0s, and out-of-this-universe ECs, I bow down to you. And thus, I get angry at myself for not working harder 
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<p>But. Now that I’m a senior, the stress has loosened a little bit, because I get to relax while the rest of you worry over your Harvard applications and 2400s. I love you all, though. CC is filled with stress-inducing geniuses, true, but it’s also filled with really nice people. :)</p>
<p>The ‘first B’ thread was HILARIOUS. </p>
<p>I agree with others, I laugh so hard at so many of these people. Glad to know I’m not the only one.</p>
<p>CC is mostly for college info, and occasional entertainment. Doesn’t really stress me out.</p>