<p>Ah, all us overachievers.</p>
<p>I was looking for some tips for SAT studying, and stumbled onto this site multiple times throughout my sophomore year. I lurked for quite a while. When I found the High School Life forum and realized I actually wanted to interact with some of these brilliant people, I decided to just go ahead and make an account. </p>
<p>Looking for methods to pass AP World. Happily, I wasn’t one of those pretentious 13 year olds whining if a B will ruin their chances at HYPS</p>
<p>As I eye all of those threads now.</p>
<p>In the 1st semester of 8th grade, I was really lazy. I never studied or did my homework at home, but somehow I managed to get good grades. My Asian grandmother always wanted me to go to a prestigious school like Harvard and become a doctor or pretty much anything that gets you a lot of money - stereotypical Asian stuff. I wasn’t really interested in school, and I wasn’t even looking into high school (let alone college!) yet. I knew I wanted to go to an Ivy League school, but I thought I didn’t need to worry about that stuff now.</p>
<p>Then, I had to pick the classes for my freshman year. My older cousin was really the only person I could ask for advice. She made high school seem very hard. For example, I asked if I should take AP Human Geography or not, because I remember she took it at her school. She said it was extremely hard 
She wouldn’t even let me put it as an alternative elective.</p>
<p>So, I decided I should look up advice on what classes I should take. I started off on YouTube, since I was too lazy to read, and I saw a video about this girl who took like 14 APs or something. I actually saw that video linked on CC like a week ago 
I Googled tons of random things about AP courses, and College Confidential showed up quite frequently. I made an account just so I could ask a single question, not thinking I’d ever come back. Then I saw some threads on self-studying, so I just kinda stayed xD </p>
<p>Sorry my uninteresting story was so long! I have a memorized speech and project that I haven’t even started due in less than 5 hours, so I’m doing pretty much anything I can to avoid working.</p>
<p>I think I may have joined the latest. I wanted to find out when a college’s decision was coming out, so I stalked a thread on it the day of (one of those weird time releases where it goes geographically staggered) and ended up making an account to post in that thread. It just snowballed from there.</p>
<p>At the end of freshman year, I had the idea to self-study AP Stats sophomore year, so google promptly took me to this godforsaken website. Later that summer I decided to self-study precalc to make it to BC Calc (unsuccessful, in case you were wondering), and I remember starting multiple threads about whether I could skip out of precalc, and later, whether it would be feasible to self-study 8 APs in one year. </p>
<p>I want to go back in time and strangle myself.</p>
<p>I was one of those kids that really wanted to go to Harvard before realizing that not only was it was improbable that I’d get admitted but it also had none of what I needed in a school and so googled everything related to ivy league admissions.
I’ve since readjusted my expectations and desires accordingly</p>
<p>I was looking for studying tips for the SSAT for prep school admissions… I’ve had no life since about early March. :(|) Ohh well, what would I be doing right now anyway if I didn’t have CC?</p>
<p>So I took the ACT in the June before freshman year, was disappointed with the reading and English scores I got, found this site, and posted a rather pretentious thread about how I could improve my eighth grade score that most people would consider good…
And then I started using CC as a rant method for quite a while as I tried to deal with school bureaucracy. That further made me involved with CC and I haven’t left. </p>
<p>it was my destiny</p>
<p>I joined in May.
It was either to discuss about those darn AP exams / if I’ve ever looked at this site before, it was because I was impatient trying to figure out the specific date when they send the scores in the mail.</p>
<p>I stumbled upon CC in January 2013 (the middle of my sophomore year) when I was getting frustrated by my AP Euro, and was looking for study guides and tips. I read through all of the CC AP Euro threads in the AP forum, but didn’t lurk or make an account until March 2013. At that point, I discovered HSL, and so began my CC addiction. </p>
<p>I was looking up UT admission statistics my sophomore year and I stumbled onto a myriad of “chance” threads so I started snooping on the chances forum and I eventually joined up. 
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<p>Naviance.</p>
<p>I got on here in 8th grade by accident. My mom wanted me to take the SSAT because she wanted me to go to a private high school. So I remember getting the book and then looking up more information about it and College Confidential was one of the top links. It was horrible though because I had dumb expectations on what my score would be since everyone here was talking about how they scored in the 98th percentile like it was nothing. So I hardly studied, thinking it would be piss easy. Since I’d always been an above average student, I thought I’d score as high too. I don’t remember my score but I was in the 80-something percentile. </p>
<p>I got accepted to those schools anyways, although I ended up going to my public high school anyways because <em>I</em> didn’t really want to go to private school, my mom did. But yeah, I learn my lesson about this site pretty fast. I still don’t think it’s representative of even people who get into Ivy Leagues. There’s still more of a range than here. I think someone computed it (God bless 'em) and noticed that the average SAT score here was in the 2300s, which is actually higher than any/most Ivy League schools (though I bet it’s skewed by some liars). So I keep my time on this site limited because, although it’s really valuable, it can be toxic. And no offense, but there always seem to be some intellectual snobbery and ego-inflating.</p>
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<p>When I was applying to boarding school last year, although I was lurking for another year before that.</p>
<p>Wow a lot of people are here for the same reason! Lot’s of cynical feedback as well 
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<p>Desperate sophomore looking to get into Harvard. Now I just enjoy they wealth of knowledge that this resource provides.</p>