<p>CC make's me feel incredibly stupid</p>
<p>My hs makes me feel like a geneous..(and some people think i am)</p>
<p>Texas Missisipi and Louisiana are preparing for yet another major HURRICANE it's yet another Katrina it's at 125+ miles now it's only a couple of weeks till the 2 yr anniversery</p>
<p>I gained some many benefits and advantages from CC. Out of the 5000 kids at my school, i am the only that knows about it. hope so..</p>
<p>CC totally pushed me to not rest on my current SAT scores and sign up for the ACT, whish probably will be the best decision i could possibly have made</p>
<p>and i signed up summer of jr. year</p>
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suit yourself, but I would rather get into a top school. I probably will be content come January when there is nothing else I can do. But for now, I will keep working hard and strive to get the best options possible.I'm not saying that I don't work hard.
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I'm not saying I didn't work hard. In fact, I probably work harder than about 75% of my graduating class. I'm just saying that I didn't come on here and be like "Wow, I better change all of my habits to compete with the kid on the east coast who probably isn't even applying to the same schools as me so I can beat him!"</p>
<p>...Seems pointless to me.</p>
<p>No I don't think you should change all your habits, but I think CC definetely lets you see the real potential out there. I guess it forces you to admit that there are students that are way more impressive even if they have your same hobbies/interests. </p>
<p>And then it's all a matter of choice. I know kids who are so content to go to the local state university. Which is awesome for them, but not for me, so I'd rather work much harder to have a better shot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm aiming for a CSU, just in NorCal (i'm in SoCal and I kinda want to get out of my hometown). I guess that's the difference.</p>
<p>Oh, I never doubted there were students that were more impressive than me. XD I know way too many kids who take like 5 APs a year to think otherwise.</p>
<p>CC motivated me to raise my GPA. I didnt realize that a A- average GPA with the hardest courseload was pathetic for college admissions.</p>
<p>Blah. I'd shoot myself if I went to the state uni.
Too much partying is never good (but I have to admit that none is worse).</p>
<p>I'm Asian. That's why.</p>
<p>Even if I get my gpa up to Ivy standards, my test scores surely won't be up to par. I'm also not super talented in anything or gifted in any activity. I'm just your typical smart kid who wants to go to a top school. I don't want to go to a state schools and see dumb a** kids ruining my life like they are currently doing in my high school. I want to a top school so I can be around all smart and ambitous people.</p>
<p>I laugh when people at my school [who are really not ivy material] claim that they want to go to HARVARD or Pton or Columbia. I'm just like ...you're kidding me. CC definitely gave me a reality check.
I used to want to go to MIT so badly. Now, I know better to not apply, since it's suchhh a huge reach that it's pretty much NOT happening.</p>
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I was wondering, what makes you think that?
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<p>I am one of tens of thousands.</p>
<p>I didn't want to go to an Ivy for a variety of reasons, but even if I did, I don't think I could've gotten in because I felt I didn't have that Ivy League Syndrome most people seem to have here, where they obsess over their work and SAT scores and whatnot. School wasn't about grades for me, and I didn't study.</p>
<p>We had two people in my school district who went to Harvard this year. That's 2/600. Of course, not all 600 applied, and about 300 are ending up at community college. But, I have a 1/300 chance of ending up at Harvard in my district alone. </p>
<p>About five people from my school went to ivies this year. Five people from the three high schools in the district would be approx. 15/600.</p>
<p>I don't like those odds. </p>
<p>There are a considerable amount of worthy future-applicants in my grade, and I'm worried about the competition. I'm lazy and a procrastinator, and if I don't change those ways, I won't even be comparable to some of them.</p>
<p>Well, mainly my ECs. As in, little community services and not enough awards.</p>
<p>I have a good GPA (4.0 unweighted, ranked #1) and ECs (lots of science, writing, and music accomplishments), but I'm afraid my ACT/SATs will be yucky (like 30 ACT and 2100 SAT). Additionally, that will show grade inflation. That leaves ECs and essays. No matter what anyone says, that's not enough to get into Harvard.</p>
<p>Yeah, there was a week when I was really depressed and down due to reading what was on CC. Felt like College Admissions were impossible. Almost cried. I still get panic attacks sometimes, but now I'm starting to plan a bit better (convinced me to do some EC's), and am reading stuff about college apps whenever I get a chance to.</p>
<p>I really want to go to an Ivy League for the sake of my parents, but there's a better chance of everyone here getting all 5's on all AP exams hereafter than that happening. Oh dear, I can feel one of my panic attacks coming back. :(</p>
<p>BTW, question, is CC representative of many of the applicants to HYPS?</p>
<p>Abysmal UW GPA and standardized testing. The September ACT is my only hope. I've taken the most challenging curriculum, full IB programme and the majority of the AP classes offered. But those Bs here and there are really going to kill my chances.</p>
<p>And though I have leadership that reflects my passions, all of it's on a school/community level. Nothing state of nation-wide, which is what I think a lot of the Ivies are looking for, especially if you don't have some other extraordinary talent. I have some school awards (i.e. student of the year), but again, nothing on the national scale. </p>
<p>Even superb essays and recs won't get me in to the 3 Ivies that I'm genuinely interested in. sigh.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that I can't and at my school the odds are against me.</p>
<p>Last year only 2 kids got into ivies (Brown and Upenn) and one got into Stanford. The valedictorian went to Stanford, salutatorian went to UPenn (he's in a wheelchair which is a huge hook to get into any college) The guy who went to Brown was a crazy-smart guy who was probably either 3rd, 4th, or 5th in class.</p>
<p>Basically at my school you have to be one of the top 5 kids in order to even have a chance of getting into the ivies.</p>
<p>RootBeerCaesar - An A- GPA is still good but you are correct that many kids do not realize where they stand in relation to others until junior/senior year. My youngest son was often happy to get a B because in elementary school As and Bs are honor roll grades. Schools should reveal the distribution of grades so that everyone has a realistic perspective. If most kids in the honors (weighted) classes are getting As and you are getting B pluses- you are not going to be in the top 10%, for example. My husband and I were surprised by how many kids were getting straight As - we assumed that the "average" grade was still C. In thinking about this - that we are splitting hairs on a a few points between A- and B+ seems just ridiculous, at least to this degree, and is just another impact of the volume of applications on this selectivity process. IMNSHO.</p>