<p>What brought you here? How did you find this community? Were you a precocious 12 year old who once hoped to go to Harvard (like myself)? Did you google "how to get into <em>insert name of university here</em>? How did this madness begin? Enlighten us all. </p>
<p>Last year, I remember on the morning announcements they mentioned that you don’t have to take the AP class to take the AP exam, so I looked up self-studying APs, and yeah, I found some posts and had been a silent reader for a little over a month until April 2013 when I made an account.</p>
<p>How did I get here? I had dreams of making the U.S.A. team for the International Chemistry Olympiad as a middle school student. So I found that the predominant self-studying community is here, and that’s how I got here. Now I’m just joining in on the Ivy League/Stanford/MIT craze…lol</p>
<p>I was looking up schools I was interested on google, and found this site. It wasn’t until I REALLY wanted to message this one particular user that I finally gave up and joined CC.</p>
<p>^ And thus, another paranoid, young student who had dreams of Harvard and Harvard only, fell into the unforgiving depths of CollegeConfidential, and was never to be seen again in daylight.</p>
<p>I made my account a few days before the end of my sophomore year, but I was lurking for a few months before that. I wasn’t really interested in college at the beginning of high school, and I planned to go to the local community college or something similar and become a dietitian. I got more interested in college early in my sophomore year, but I don’t really know why. I think I bought one of those US News college magazines on a whim and got addicted to reading about the admissions process. I’m not an especially ambitious or accomplished person, and I didn’t actually apply to very many reaches in the end…I just sort of live vicariously through other people on here.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize how popular CC was when I first found it. College Confidential is a cheesy name (so says halcyonheather) and I thought it was some random website no one ever heard of, but it’s kind of infamous everywhere else on the Internet where they talk about college admissions. >:) </p>
<p>I found cc freshman year when I had to do a speech project about future career goals. I googled stuff about harvard (lol) and med school and stumbled on cc. I didn’t stay tho and occasionally stumbled upon the site a few times during sophomore year because of my computer class. I became a regular browser when I was looking up SAT study tips for my march test. I really wish I joined freshman year tho. That way I wouldn’t have done so poorly on the Aphg exam lol</p>
<p>@halcyonheather you are brilliant! You’re incredibly accomplished! </p>
<p>Please elaborate Thank you! :"> </p>
<p>I think it was about half a year ago that I made my account, probably during winter break. I started getting really motivated about college, what I want to go into, and the things that I could be doing right now to reach my goals. I found it by Googling a couple of questions that I had and seeing posts and responses from CC-ers.</p>
<p>@BipolarBuddhist Lol if you’re reffering to me, I never had any interest in Harvard University, but heh people do say I should get out more… so you’re not too far off.</p>
<p>Google search to answer a question of mine lol.</p>
<p>I have not the slightest idea and the amount of time I’ve invested into this site deeply concerns me. I remember posting a thread my Freshman year about whether or not a B+ in Geometry was gonna keep me out of Harvard…</p>
<p>Y’ever wanna just punch your 14 year old self in the face? Because I do. All the time. </p>
<p>My story is very similar to preamble1776’s. I found this site while freaking out about whether one grade would keep me out of any decent college anywhere, and then I just silently browsed through for a while and then finally just caved in and made an account.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather don’t be like this. you’ve many things to brag about. depends whether you want to or not to. lol</p>
<p>January last year when I’d decided to go to college. prior to that I wanted to become world champion in halo cause I suck at playing any sort of computer games. :bz </p>
<p>I found it from Google searches involving AP and specific colleges and such. It was listed in my search results so often that I joined.</p>
<p>I found it when I was searching the net for a good review book for AP Bio. </p>
<p>Also found it looking for AP books</p>
<p>Google.com was invented, #mindblown.</p>
<p>I was looking for po- wait no</p>