<p>I am not jealous that I am not a legacy, and truth be told, I would rather not be a legacy. You can dispute it if you want, but I want to know that if I am accepted, it was all me, not the fact that my parents went to the school. I mean what my parents did is what they did, I want to be able to say that hey, I got into Penn because I was good at what I did, not, yeah well you know my parents went there so I got in too. And I am not saying that legacy applicants aren’t qualified, they are probably just as great, its just that on a personal level, I feel like that is something I wouldn’t want. I don’t want someone else’s accomplishments to get me into college. But hey maybe I am jealous, legacies do get in a ridiculous rates during ED.</p>
<p>@pensandpencils: …I hope I’m not screwed now because my school has a fixed track of courses (so everyone takes the same classes - no choice of what classes to take) and for our senior science course we’re taking AP Environmental Science…</p>
<p>I can understand that viewpoint. I guess if I do get in a part of me will always wonder if I wouldn’t have without my legacy but then I guess it’s whatever because i got ACCEPTED and can go to PENN!</p>
<p>Wait, are you saying the decisions are up? Did they decide to post Double Legacy applicant’s statuses before the other ED applicants’?? I just recieved an e-mail from my college counselor (ironically also an admirable Penn Alum) reporting that they occasionally will notify Double Legacies up to two days in advance. Congratulations by the way, your family must be ecstatic!!</p>
<p>Pennpsycho, if you read his post he said IF he got into penn he could say that. And you really can’t let go of your double legacy status can you, there’s no need to constantly mention that.</p>
<p>@thewikiman I find him equally (if not more) annoying as you find him.</p>
<p>pennpsycho, ■■■■■■■■ much?</p>
<p>did just a quick look… but pennpsycho has 9 posts. he has mentioned the words “double legacy” a total of…11 times i believe. not to mention, each time it was capitalized. stuck up much?</p>
<p>blorgit: Don’t worry. Your school has a fixed track. Penn knows that. Also, there is nothing wrong with taking certain, less challenging AP’s. What I meant is that to just take those classes or take those AP exams just to beat out your competition or to show colleges that you took a crazy number of AP’s is unnecessary and unhelpful.</p>
<p>@pensandpencils, I agree that there are easy and hard AP classes. In my day my HS offered three only, and I took them all (Bio, Physics, English). My kids’ HS offers over 20 as well as dual-enrollment, which counts the same for GPA purposes. Most of the “superior” kids here take AP Psych and ES in 9th grade. These courses are not necessarily that easy at that time in your life, but I agree they are not as challenging as others. My son dual-enrolled at a local college, and self-studied for the AP Computer Science test (I forget which of the others he self-studied for).</p>