<p>Guys you’ve got no clue! The kids around where I live even the smart ones are so unambitious that they only apply to the community college!!! So when I say I want to go to somewhere great, they think I’m crazy. I have a 4.0 and even though I haven’t taken the ACTs I’ve been studying my butt off since summer after freshman year. They act like going anywhere but a community college is a completely unrealistic goal! It annoys me so much because there’s no one who I can relate to. Oh and get this, the guy I’m in competition for to be valedictorian doesn’t even want to go to college at all!!!</p>
<p>Ha. My good friend who’s indian wants to get into MIT as well.</p>
<p>It’ll be tough for both him and me.</p>
<p>We might be the only two that want to go to MIT though.</p>
<p>people make the best faces when I tell them I’m applying to all-womens colleges.</p>
<p>Wow, two fellow Washingtonians? This is wild.</p>
<p>Like the rest of you, CC has jaded me about college prospects. It’s always a shock to hear, ‘I got a 2000 SAT! I can get into HYPSM!’ Ah, the outside world…</p>
<p>Aspire2011 said everything that I needed to say lol. Nobody (seriously, nobody) goes out of state here, if they even go to college at all. When I tell my friends I’m going out of state, they look at me like I might as well not be going to college. Am I that weird for wanting to meet new people from new places?</p>
<p>I get two reactions. One: “do you have the grades/scores for that?” or Two: “oh you’re smart, you’ll definitely get in?” It is as simple as neither of those things.</p>
<p>People don’t know the schools I’m going to and ask me why I want to go there. The only schools they seem to know are the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford. Sigh…</p>