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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>
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<p>I don't see what the big deal is? Very few schools send numerous students to Ivy League schools besides all those fancy privates. My school in a poorer part of Canada sent one student to a top school this year. I'm pretty that in our school history (50+ years), very VERY few people have gone on to an Ivy or similar.</p>
<p>For me, I try to avoid reading CC as much as possible. There was a point where I learned a lot from lurking the site and gathering in knowledge. After a while, I found, the results began to diminish. Instead of learning I started to become disheartened by the insane competitiveness that's ubiquitous throughout the boards. I'm going to try to avoid visiting here for as long as possible during my junior year so as to maintain my, y'know, sanity.</p>
<p>My basic philosophy is this: I will do what I enjoy during high school. I will do the best I can, and if my accomplishments don't stack up during application time, that's fine. I'd rather have it that way than force myself into things for the sake of getting in. There are lots of other opportunities at great colleges which I could also pursue.</p>
<p>I lost a lot of interest towards the ivies over the years. I used to think that if you get an ivy degree than you can do anything you want, but the same applies to other top colleges. It took me along time to realize that. </p>
<p>"For me, I try to avoid reading CC as much as possible. There was a point where I learned a lot from lurking the site and gathering in knowledge. After a while, I found, the results began to diminish. Instead of learning I started to become disheartened by the insane competitiveness that's ubiquitous throughout the boards. I'm going to try to avoid visiting here for as long as possible during my junior year so as to maintain my, y'know, sanity."</p>
<p>Yeah. I feel exactly the same. Although I'll still be on CC a lot. I'm going to try to make my application noticeable, but I'm not going to do every possible thing and waist my time, energy, and effort.</p>
<p>Whatever, do what you guys wish. In the end though, somethings may have been worth it and others may have been useless.</p>
<p>CC - no offense but the people here are a bit on the negative side when it comes to chances thread.. you should see the number of people who get into umich at my school and people at CC would think i was lying..</p>
<p>it's hard.. when i see people applying to the same places as me but their last post goes, "FU** I JUST GOT A 35 on my ACTs.. AGAIN" seriously, f- you</p>
<p>oh and school odds.. let me think last year's class.. no one is going to an ivy.. i know some got in (2) but decided MIT and Williams.. and a couple others who could have gotten in applied ED/EA to other schools (notre dame, northwest, umich<<<long story) and i kid two years ago got into cornell.. ya that's my school for you... so what are my shots? and believe me they were all WAY smarter than me...</p>
<p>Well, why would they even consider me when they can have the amazing people that have won all these prestigious awards and have 1000 volunteer hours?</p>
<p>Ok even if I have the most awesome Junior year ever and I raise my gpa to a 3.85 and get a 31 on the ACT, I still won't have the slightest chance of getting in. I'm not a star athlete or student. I don't have any hooks either. I guess the only hook I could possibly get would be to get the highest award in DECA. Otherwise no way Jose.</p>
<p>CC might make you push harder to be a better student, but it also diminishes fairly commendable accomplishments by kids who are out of the stratosphere with their achievements. I got mad when people congratulated me on my 1430 SAT score when I had read on here of kids with 800's on every section. It wasn't good enough; I'm still dissatisfied and considering taking it again.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars look awful too, even though I do what I love and I do it passionately. Apparently, I don't love enough things and don't apply 25 hours a day to them all.</p>
<p>Oh well. If that's all that ivies want, then I'll go to Rollins and be happy. We'll find out next year, anyway.</p>
<p>CC gets me depressed....but if I had never came here and experienced the fact that there is enough "superheroes" to fill every spot at teh ivy league, I wouldnt be motivated right now to go out and work on my Davidson Fellows project, get a high GPA, take 7 APs, found 2 more clubs, run for a national office, and etc. </p>
<p>Course now that I am done getting motivation on what to do I dont need CC anymore till chances time</p>
<p>Cause like, there are so many things you can do to get into an Ivy or at least increase your chances and stuff.</p>
<p>But if you don't like it, there's no point because you're going to regret it so much if you don't get it. </p>
<p>Fortunately, I happen to be one of those natural born geeks that love to learn and plan and organize and lead and do all these things. :) So it worked for me.</p>
<p>I still don't know why any college would want me when I hear of so many people who win national/international music competitions or are nationally ranked athletes or do amazing volunteer/charity work or who take 8 AP's a year or do research and win awards for their work or amazing stuff like that.</p>
<p>coming out of 8th grade, i felt like i had a longshot chance at an ivy league, but since coming into highschool and joining CC, i feel above-average at best</p>