<p>I'm looking to go to a state school here and there are a bunch of kids with much lower grades going there too.</p>
<p>Just to think that we're at the same level even though I took harder classes makes me feel like crap.</p>
<p>The only plus I can think of is that I get more scholarship money.</p>
<p>Did you guys have to deal with the same thing? Any tips on how to deal with it?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>To dismiss people as "idiots" based on one aspect of their being--a number assigned to them for academic purposes (grades/gpa)--is a lazy way to approach life IMO. </p>
<p>Every person I've ever met has been interesting in one way or another--my advice to you is to work on being more open minded and willing to step down from the elitist pedestal you've situated yourself upon.</p>
<p>You'll most likely mix in different social circles, so don't worry about it.</p>
<p>You won't see them often, and when you do you don't have to talk to them.</p>
<p>if it weren't those idiots there would be other idiots- so whats the difference.</p>
<p>As much as I know people can be interesting in their own ways, you have to accept that some people aren't the brightest.</p>
<p>I'm talking about who kids who go to college to "get drunk and get a degree". (I quoted this one kid.)</p>
<p>Who cares? (You do, apparently.) My advice is to get over it.</p>
<p>It's really strange that you think of your college as a prize. You seem to think that since you worked harder, you deserve a better prize than your classmates. So why don't you attend a better college, whatever that means? You must've had some reason for picking the college that you did. I'm sure your classmates had their reasons, too.</p>
<p>The problem is that "college" is not a prize. Work hard like you did in high school, and I guarentee that you'll have a lot more to show for it at the end of your four years than your idiot classmates will. What you get out of college is the prize - not the college itself.</p>
<p>I think I had the second lowest GPA of all the people at my school who got into NYU. But somehow, the person from my school who goes to Stern and is a finance major doesn't do jack **** while I'm sitting here working my ass off. Same with my suitemate. It's okay though, I have a higher GPA than my suitemate. The best part, I get to spend 3 years in law school after we graduate to make less money than he does. Great. At least I'm not going to med school. I don't get it.</p>
<p>It's okay. I chose to go to law school. I'll find consolation.....somewhere.....when I'm "only" working 70 hours a week at some huge wall street law firm. Probably in my $225k paycheck, first year out of law school.</p>
<p>At least you're not working twice as hard as your suitemate, who's gonna end up making more money than you......AFTER you get a graduate professional degree.</p>
<p>Many state schools have excellent honors college that only let in people with certain gpa/test scores. You should think about joining your school's. Also, this attitude is not exactly the best way to go into college. I go to a state school and my test scores/gpa were significantly higher than the average (avg:24, me:30) but that doesn't mean I look down on everyone else. There are people here with higher test scores than me, and people with lower scores, and just because someone sucks at the ACT doesn't mean they're an idiot or stupid. I understand that ass holes from your high school might also be attending your school, that happened with me as well, but typically if it's a big enough school (which your state school probably is) then you should be fine with not seeing them. I very rarely see anyone from my HS here that I don't WANT to see. If I do see someone, I just say hi and keep going if I don't want to speak to them further. You have to move past high school BS once you go to college.</p>
<p>Heh, this is why I chose to go to school more than 700 miles away (didn't apply to any schools in-state). More than a quarter of my school's class is going to UNC, and I've heard the same discussion at our school. Our valedictorian is thinking about going (our valedictorian did last year despite getting in to Yale, #2 went to Stanford, heh) and I overheard in my bio class someone saying how weird it is to see him work so much harder than them yet they will end up at the same school.</p>
<p>Don't really worry about it, if you don't want to see them, you probably won't. Besides, you can use your harder classes to get into harder classes and be haughty in that way if you want ;).</p>
<p>"At least you're not working twice as hard as your suitemate, who's gonna end up making more money than you......AFTER you get a graduate professional degree."</p>
<p>Law school is easier than calc 1 though. I know, apples to oranges, but I'm still right.</p>
<p>People do grow up in college...it's not high school any more. And, you probably will not choose the same groups of people to be friends with. If the high school kids don't get their acts together, they won't be on campus for long/</p>
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<p>I LOLed.</p>
<p>I don't really have anything new to say. If you're at a state school, it's big enough that you don't have to associate with them. I would be more worried about your attitude and close-mindedness regarding the other people at the school.</p>
<p>I go to a state school, even though I worked pretty hard in high school, and I thought I was going to a small private school until April, when I found out how much cheaper the state school was. There are definitely people in the same shoes as you. Just try and find them.</p>
<p>theres a pretty wide range of people from my HS at BC. one kid who mad MUCH better grades than me got waitlisted, but i got in EA somehow. he doesnt feel "insulted" that hes at the same school as me and respects everyone here. funnily enough he got a 4.0 first semester and wants to try to transfer to dartmouth or harvard if possible</p>
<p>one girl is smart but got in casue her whole family goes here. i got better grades than her and did better on the SATs but now were on the same playing ground. i dont care anymore that she didnt take AP history or honors math throughout HS. weve been studying together for a genetics midterm for the past 2 days. </p>
<p>and plus.. if you are that much smarter than the other kids from ur HS who go to your school then itll show in your GPA. and maybe theyre all communication majors, and your engineering or something like that. its all relative. like everyone else says, you cna never see them if you want, i only see some of the kids from my hs cause i CHOOSE to (except for my next door neighbor, we went to the same hs and somehow wound up neighbors, crazy).</p>
<p>they are thinking the same thing about you...</p>
<p>I am one of the idiots of which you speak. I don't know how the nerds from my school manage to deal with me, but they do.</p>
<p>Nobody gives an eff what you did in highschool anymore.</p>
<p>i know what you mean. I'm at a school that is easy to get into. Lucky for me the only other person from my class to come here was the valedictorian and we're good friends, so that's fine. </p>
<p>But I know what you mean. I worked hard in high school to get into a good college, and now I'm at the same college that a lot of kids who didn't work hard also go to. I just take solice in the fact that I'll be more successful than them in the long run.</p>
<p>Maybe, maybe not. Most likely a few of them will do much better than you by starting a new business or just luck. Grades do not mean success.</p>
<p>I can't really take solice in the fact that my suitemate's going to make more money in 10 years with an undergrad degree than I will with my law degree. And the fact that despite this, I work twice to three times as hard.</p>
<p>It's okay though, it won't seem so bad when I'm in my 2L year at NYU Law and law firms are banging down my door giving me job offers left and right. It'll feel good that I'm wanted :)</p>