<p>kids in your school talk about getting into an ivy league, when they don't even take AP classes and aren't very smart... A lot of kids do that in my school for some reason... a guy in my AP USH class was talking about Princeton when he has like a D-C average in that class. A girl in my ALG 2 class said she wanted to go to Dartmouth when her grades are average at best and her sats are going to be horrible. Actually a lot of girls want to go to Dartmouth in my school..I don't know maybe it's because I'm a realist and am annoyed with these type of comments. But my school is pretty weak academically(south NJ).. the average SAT score is 963. There is only 1 ap offered soph, 3 junior, and around 6 senior.The last two years, my sister was the only one to get into an Ivy League. No one in my grade does any of the amazing ec stuff either.</p>
<p>yes. people who obviously have never even bothered to look at the admissions requirments for the schools they're "definitely going to next year"....</p>
<p>I laughed when the OP said her SATs are going to be horrible. It sounds like a predestined curse. He's like an evil god:). The best thing to do is to let them think what they want.................at least for the moment. You shouldn't judge if they're going to get in or not. You should let them get the rejection(or acceptance) letter first, and then maybe, just maybe, comment.</p>
<p>so how did it feel to get that off your chest?</p>
<p>Well, such ignorance bugs me too, sometimes. Especially when the person acts as if he/she is DESTINED to go there even though he/she has not-so-great stats. And I say all of this in pragmatic terms.
In fact, I've talked to a few people like that and it turns out they hardly know ANYTHING about th school, admissions, etc. Usually the response is something around: "Uhhh... you need good grades to get in?"</p>
<p>i thought that getting into harvard would be easy if you were on the honor roll at your school...
(at my highly competitive school, its 3 grades in A range)</p>
<p>Do't worry about these people. Just feel good...these are the kind of people who get rejected, not the high achievers. The high achievers should see these people and realize that it only is good for them...Harvard may only accept 1 out of 10 applicants but if 6 of those applicants are crappy people applying for the heck of it then it just makes you feel a whole lot better.
Of course, those people are entitled to dream. Leave them to their illusions.</p>
<p>where in south NJ you go?</p>
<p>I don't know should I say the city online? Does it really matter? Well I'll just say I go to a school near Washington Township, Glassboro, and Clayton. It is in Gloucester County. Why?</p>
<p>I sometimes feel that way, its really hard not to laugh. There is the girl in my school who has like a 75 average, isn't in any honors or APs and hate school, she was telling me that she was applying to oxford. I feel mean but seriously though people can be so delusional. I have to admit I was one of the delusional people that thought they were going to get into UPENN, I had a 94.3 average and my guidance counselor told me I had no chance of getting in, this was even before I had taken my SATS or SAT IIs, I was crushed now I'm over it. I am hoping to get into Boston College which she still considers a reach for me. :(</p>
<p>yes, I hate that. there's this one girl who is (truly) the most annoying, stupidest bimbo in the whole world. she knows nothing about college admissions (she's in the lowest math class possible) and her life encircles around parties, boys, makeup, shopping, and making fun of people and she's like "I want to go to Princeton or Stanford and meet hot rich guys!" She obviously thinks that anyone can get in . . . she won't shut up about this either.</p>
<p>p.s. don't you hate it too when chick flicks have the main character end up going to an ivy league school "just because"? I think that was one of the reasons why this girl wanted to go to princeton: because she saw the hilary duff movie.</p>
<p>Legally Blonde, my friend, poisoned the minds of bimbos the world over. And Hilary Duff.</p>
<p>I liked Legally Blonde!</p>
<p>What happens at my school is that people tell me I'm going to get into Harvard.</p>
<p>Even though I'm pretty sure I'm not.</p>
<p>Like today, my spanish teacher was telling us what our project was in spanish. And I understood her, but it was obvious if you just payed attention. But because of that, someone told me I would go to Harvard.</p>
<p>Ever thought that maybe they could change and become a better person? Don't be so quick to judge. :P It's not nice.</p>
<p>Uhhh....Your teacher talked to you in Spanish and most of the kids didn't understand? That's wow..........lol</p>
<p>I don't say anything, it's their own dreams, you shouldn't be mean and say they aren't going even if you think you're better.</p>
<p>By commenting on such statements, one is implying they are better, yes? At least, one implies that he or she is more knowledgable in the area. Perhaps they are. It is good to know of things that would help someone later in life.</p>
<p>However, it would be more beneficial to apply that knowledge to inform the individual about their strengths and weaknesses. Try to help them out if you feel that they must learn of something they do not know of, and a positive effect will be reached. It takes not much of a person to become critical. However it seems that becoming compassionate requires one that sees with their heart, and not with their eyes.
I would assume that the purpose of gaining knowledge, especially in a process as random as admissions, would be best used to benefit others as well; hence, the purpose of College Confidential. </p>
<p>Just a theory. ;)</p>
<p>How can you be so sure how your peers will do a year from now? Lots of people are closeted smart. They dont discuss grades, SATs, or school in general. Then they end up getting in somewhere pretty good and you had no idea. There are lots of kids like this. You may see them in your AP classes and be like "***, that person is stupid, s/he is bringing the class down" and then you see later in the year s/he got accepted over you to that ivy. Trust me, there are a fair amount of kids who seem dumb, but are not. There are also kids who are on the fence on college admissions (right between ivy level and tier two level) but are star athletes who go to top schools to play sports. O, and college admissions isn't random. Schools, Ivys and other tops, have so many great applicants they have the ability to pick and choose who gets in and mold the class to their liking. This is done even more at a LAC with less than 500 freshmen entering each year.</p>
<p>there is a kid at my school that everybody thought was just the stupid class clown who was good at lacrosse. turns out he has one of the highest GPAs in the class, incredible SAT scores, and is going to Dartmouth next year. some people just surprise you.</p>
<p>it does bother me though when people assume that they will get in somewhere because their families are rich [we have quite a few of those at my school..] and that they dont need to do anything to go to a good school. it may be true but its unfair.</p>
<p>not always. sometime you can tell. if so far they haven't completed any of the admission requirments, how are they going to get in? you can't get into a top level school without taking basic courses. if you stopped taking math classes your junior year, and have a 2.5 GPA, and lower than 1500/2400 SATs, no ECs. there's a pretty low chance of making it in. there's a difference between saying the kid in your class who only had a 93 percent on the last test will never make it, to talking about the people practically failing out of highschool, and planning on harvard.</p>