<p>I've been looking over chance threads and everyone seems so smart with their perfect GPAs, 2350+ SATS, and 34-36 ACTS. I've always wanted to go to an elite ivy school but with this competition? Anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>yes. extremely. 609? you from nj?</p>
<p>Most of the kids that have the energy/motivation to be on this forum are the cream of the crop- it doesn’t get much more elite than those kids. There’s a significant amount of kids with similar credentials that don’t post on this website, no doubt, but don’t mistake the large population of Ivy candidates on this forum for a large population of Ivy candidates throughout the country.
A few of the kids posting with their perfect everything are digging for compliments a lot, too, so don’t be too off-put. You’ll get into a great school!</p>
<p>No. Originalguy609 is my username for everything. Its funny because It says i’m original but there are at least 609 guys that are original just like me making me unoriginal.</p>
<p>These people are just really smart</p>
<p>Or as people at my school would say:</p>
<p>Dayum deez *****es b hella ratchet</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing today. The CC forum is frequented mainly by the top level applicants who have a desire to succeed and attend top level institutions. </p>
<p>The national average SAT is 1500, ACT is 21. Rarely do you see anyone post here that is below either average. Most are above the 90% mark and many above the 95% mark. </p>
<p>I guess the “average” students are content with their scores, potential and possibilities. Or they don’t have a computer! ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, the rest of the population are out playing call of duty and league, 95% of the people here are the top 5% in their school.</p>
<p>This forum is full of braggarts. I’m sure your score is fine, and scores aren’t everything for an application. Don’t worry about it, I’d take passion in something over a perfect score. And so would colleges.</p>
<p>Haha yeah I used to think I was an overachiever… and now… not so much. Everyone has like perfect everything on here. But just keep in mind, numbers are not the truly important things in life 
… and neither is college in the grand scheme of things.
But I’m sure you did great anyway!</p>
<p>The “…b hella ratchet” post. I’m literally dead. Didn’t think anyone else on CC besides me encountered such individuals on a daily basis</p>
<p>I do. All the time. Walking down the hallway hearing tyga blasting through cheap speakers. #thuglife</p>
<p>I walk down my halls hearing things like “twerk for Jesus”</p>
<p>I hear things I can’t post up here hahaha
Also. I didn’t choose the thuglife. The thuglife chose me.</p>
<p>If I hear ■■■■■, hella, or ratchet one more time I’m going to take drastic measures</p>
<p>A 3.7 freshman year won’t screw up your life right?</p>
<p>It’s not the thug life, it’s the chug life!</p>
<p>Oh, and it won’t screw you up, but it’ll definitely make you seriously regret it when you’re looking back as a junior, wondering how you could have let it slide when you had such easy classes back then…</p>
<p>I got accepted to Northwestern with a 2160 SAT score as a soph transfer</p>