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<p>Yes every single word of this post is like my situation too haha. People think that my 800 math is an automatic ticket to Harvard and Yale. No matter that my other sections weren’t as good. And I don’t want to tell them, “No, well it’s actually very hard to get into those schools,” because they don’t believe me! I’ve tried! And then come 10-11 months from now when the majority of us “Gods” get our already-expected rejection letters these folks are going to be so disappointed.</p>
<p>i’m in 8th right now, and i hate being mocked by my peers when I say why I am going to boarding school (for the academic rigor and college prep) and that I want to go to Harvard but I probably won’t get in. It frustrates me.</p>
<p>Yeah, in our class we are prepping for the SAT II in Bio because our teacher thinks that we would be really prepared for it. Which is true. This one kid comes up to me and says that i’m going to get a 800 on it. I haven’t taken any practice tests yet. Yet he just assumes that because I do well on the tests and what not that I will get a 800. Obviously, that puts even more pressure on me.</p>
<p>If you’re so bothered by it, don’t go around telling everyone your SAT score. Problem solved.</p>
<p>Like obesechicken said, they’re being nice. Just roll with it. Focus on something more positive than your anxiety about college applications. =D</p>
<p>When I give reasons that I’m not going to the local public HS, people look at me like i’m crazy. when they find out that i’m doing what is considered grade 10 math here, but i’m supposed to be in 8th and i’m still 13 (i skipped when i moved, but i’ll repeat at bs and be in my normal grade again) they gasp as if doing the best you can do is just unheard of.</p>
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For Gods sake, just take it in stride. So what if they think you’ll be getting into Harvard “for sure”? It’s a compliment. Just let them know you appreciate it/thanks/whatever. No need to correct them about it…</p>
<p>And yeah, I’m in much the same boat. But geez, it’s not a terrible problem to have.</p>
<p>EDIT: Uh-oh. Looks like we found another way to sneak our stats in under the guise of humility!
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<p>I was just going to post something like this, but you explained it rather nicely.</p>
<p>yah those kids are pretty stupid, but so is your thread.</p>
<p>I don’t like it, but it’s not the worst thing in the world.</p>
<p>It makes it kind of fun to prove everyone wrong when you get rejected by Harvard.</p>
<p>haha…i’m definetly in the same sitatuation, and it makes it hard when i have no one to really relate to at school…but selfishly, i’m glad those ppl. don’t work as hard as me…b/c then i probably wouldn’t be where i am now…:)</p>
<p>It bothers me most when they apply severe misinformation to you whether it works in your favor or not:</p>
<p>“Wow, 800 on the writing score? Haaaaaarvarddddd.”</p>
<p>“I’m so sorry for you…didn’t you know you could take all regulars courses and get a higher GPA? That’s all they look at in the end - it doesn’t matter that you took IB classes.”</p>
<p>“You know that no American college is going to take you because they automatically assume that anyone in IB is going overseas.”</p>
<p>“Why are you even worried about college? You know that just because you’re top 10 percent, Yale will automatically accept you.”</p>
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<p>So maybe this is just me, but I get a lot of the “omg super high SAT valedictorian going to the Ivy League” talk and then people accuse ME of being arrogant and pretentious when I’m the one trying to tell them that there’s a bunch of other people (mostly on CC) who are just as smart.</p>
<p>@anamai - thats exactly what its like at my school everyone else is like “hmm I’ll take this class because it seems fun” while I’m trying to figure out how to cram the most APs into my schedule…but then since I don’t feel like mentioning to other smart people that they should take more weighted classes like AP Psych that are really easy to get an A in to boost their GPA I end up doing really well in class rank</p>
<p>Just ignore them</p>
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<p>word.</p>
<p>yeah, to an extent some kids need a reality check, but some kids on cc need a reality check lol
fyi the valedictorian at our school (white, not urm, not athlete) got into all the uc schools, cornell, stanford, other schools with only a 2010 sat</p>
<p>lol i’m a CCers and I say that/act like that to top students that i don’t don’t particularly like. “omg don’t worry about it ____ you have NOTHING to worry about” “of course that lecture that the teacher said about nobody in the class being able to get into college didn’t apply to you -_-;” etcetc</p>
<p>To the people saying that the OP’s wrong or elitist or whatever and that people with high SATs/GPAs or who are generally percieved as brilliant should just chill: it really is not fun.
Because when people think you are perfect, you are setting yourself up for a huge lose-lose when decision time rolls around. You get into top schools? oh, it was expected. You don’t get in, which happens to everybody, half the school is asking what went wrong and is disappointed.
I know this girl who has gotten 1 B and spends most of her time presenting herself as perfect. She spends a lot of time on her outfits and hair and doing an incredible job on her homework and such, often getting over 100% in many of her classes. But in order to be able to spend that much time on her homework, she takes easier classes and is weaker in extracurriculars. I talked to her, and she had a 20something on the SAT. Most people didn’t know that, though, they just assumed she was a genius and had genius level SATS and ECs. Decision time rolled around, and she wasn’t accepted to any of the top UCs: SD, LA, Cal. Didn’t get into any Ivies. And everyone was disappointed.
On the other hand, I’m usually the chatty white girl in the back row. I’m not in school leadership, I don’t win piles of awards at school. I’m cute and tiny and people assume I’m dumb as a brick. A lot of people don’t know I got a 2360, that I have set the curve on every calc test this year, that I was the second student ever in my calc teachers 15+ years of teaching to get 100% on the final, that I intern in a chem lab at nasa.
And so when I got in ED Dartmouth, everyone was amazed. It was pretty great.</p>
<p>I hate that I’m never called any of these. There are too many kids at my school who have academics that far surpass mine, and can beat down standardized tests like gangsters looking for prey… I mean, I’m above average, just not fantastic.</p>
<p>So these kids actually make my day. I actually can’t stand the kids who start spasm-ing over getting 96’s on tests, or… getting a low A, then arguing and talking to the teacher about making it higher / “FIXING” the 94 or whatever. That’s what I can’t stand.</p>
<p>Which is probably what a good majority of the posters in this thread are… lol… so sorry.</p>
<p>if it annoys you people that bad then just don’t tell anyone. does everyone really have to know you got a 2300 on your sats? no. do they need to know you applied at the ivies and all the top colleges? no. do they need to know you get straight A’s in every test, every final, every report card? no, no, no!</p>
<p>and if you really want to tell someone your problems about not getting into your reaches then rely on your close friends, surely they wont judge you. and if you don’t have any close friends its probably because well you care more about your academics than your social life, which clearly shouldn’t be.</p>