<p>colleges want kids with social lives....and the super-selective ones want normal kids with social lives who also happen to be incredibly brilliant.</p>
<p>going off stereotypes, most smart kids are nerdy, and not at all social, or able to manage relationships.</p>
<p>so the kids that did have high school relationships....did this take up a lot of your time and energy? how did it play into the whole college application process? did it at all?</p>
<p>what schools did you get into while still being invovled with someone? where did your other half get accepted to?</p>
<p>what if one person in the relationship got into a really good school, and the other person applied to good schools but ends up going to a safety? resentment?</p>
<p>I went to Bard this year and my girlfriend just graduated HS this year. It was definitely hard and time consuming. We were the picture-perfect football player/cheerleader couple during HS. I didn't write about it anywhere in my applications, except one of my Hampshire College essays was describing our first kiss (the prompt was to write about an event that changed your life). I was accepted there.</p>
<p>Next semester I'll be at Wesleyan and she'll be at Quinnipiac. It just so happened that the best place for me to do what I wanted to go (I can double major in Neuroscience and Biochemistry at Wes and do a 5-year MS program for Neuroscience, it doesn't get much better) is going to be close to where she'll be. </p>
<p>I'd say you shouldn't go into college in a relationship unless your 100% into it. We just celebrated our 3-year. It's actually kind of strange you'd want to use it to your advantage.</p>
<p>ooh i had a friend who applied ED to northwestern along with her boyfriend. he got in, she got rejected. she got into wellesley and decided to go there because he lives in boston, and she figured she could see him when he came home. he broke up with her the week after graduation.</p>
<p>hahahaha omg our val is currently dating our sal....the val got rejected from all the ivies he applied to, and is now going to ucla i think, while our sal (also got into ucla but decided not to go) is now going to upenn...HIS dream school, lol.</p>
<p>talk about severe drama, and yet they're still dating...for now=)</p>
<p>I really enjoyed having my boyfriend next to me when applying to colleges. We motivated each other when school got really rough and bounced ideas off of each other. Like the rest of the relationship we supported each other. </p>
<p>However we did not apply to the same school, nor anywhere near each other. I'm going to Tulane and he's going to Rice. For a while, though, I was going to go to CU-Boulder, a good state school but definitely my back up. (I was waitlisted.) We just continued to support each other. In my case, I let him be optimistic about my waitlist chances, while I remained more solemn. </p>
<p>It depends on your relationship I guess. </p>
<p>At five years, we're splitting in respect to our different paths and growth as individuals.</p>
<p>i know a girl who has one boyfriend, but goes around, parties, gets drunk, and has one-night stands with other guys....she got into harvard wth??</p>
<p>This is a true story at my school this year. </p>
<p>boy met girl, boy fell in love, boy & girl applied to several UCs
boy got into UCLA, UCDavis
girl got rejected from UCLA, but got into UCDavis
boy decided to go to UCDavis with girl
girl got into UCLA on appeal
girl will go to UCLA
boy S.O.L.</p>
<p>^I'd love to see that actually happen. Kind of makes me want to be the person who handles all this stuff. Then again, it would also make me want to bang my head against a wall.</p>