<p>Personally, CC has been a wealth of information, you simply need to learn how to separate the wisdom from the noise. Additionally, I have communicated with some extremely helpful and kind human beings that I’ve met on CC. As I undergo the transfer process, I hope to give back to this tremendous community. </p>
<p>My one gripe about CC? Chance threads!!! They are moronic and vapid. Just do what you are suppose to do, say your prayers, and hope for the best. Sheesh.</p>
<p>Before CC, I was a seriously underachieving kid, definitely nowhere near CC standards (I’m in the bottom 50% of my HS). </p>
<p>I had really bad time management and serious and deep procrastination. I really disliked studying more than necessary.</p>
<p>I learnt from CC that it was possible to go beyond your school curriculum, to self-study AP exams. </p>
<p>So I thought to myself, why not give it a shot? It’s possible!</p>
<p>Self-studying forced me into having better time management and by self-studying more subjects, I truly realised how much time I had wasted over the years by discovering that if I had dropped all my self-studies, I would extremely free.</p>
<p>I now know that I have the ability to do more than my school demands and that has changed me.</p>
<p>I learned to see Chance me threads like the sunday comics. They should be removed from the public forum and kept in a little section of their own.<br>
I learned after seeing chance me threads that my D’s strategy of volunteering and leading was right on. She did not have a long list but a strong list that she was passionate about and continued through four years of HS.
I learned it is possible to receive a “full ride” without having a 2600 SAT and perfect scores.
CC led my D to apply to schools that were not on her original short list with success<br>
CC was instrumental in increasing SAT and ACT scores. Xiggi posts are amazing.</p>
<p>AP scores do not matter as much as bragged about. It’s the taking of them that is most important for many students. Yes for the elites that enjoy bragging about the 5’s it’s ok, but schools are looking more at the whole picture of the student not as much the scores.</p>
<p>I learned that 2600’s and 36’s do get rejected. Took the load off my D and she relaxed and looked more for the right school than the prestige.</p>
<p>The biggie for CC… it really does not matter what college/university you attend. What matters is you and what you do with what you are given.</p>
<p>CC absolutely distorted my perception of college admissions. Based on what I read and posted, there were some schools I was SURE I would get into and others I did not think I had a chance in hell at (but applied anyway).</p>
<p>I read countless threads where people posted about having a 3.7 GPA and being “doomed” for college admissions, and other posters agreed that that GPA was “too low.”</p>
<p>Two months from now, I will be starting my freshman year at Northwestern University, to which I was accepted with a 3.5 GPA. By contrast, I was NOT accepted to two of my safety schools.</p>
<p>Basically, I learned that CC is a great resource for some things, but it is NOT the end-all, be-all authority on college admissions. Honestly, though I enjoy being on these boards now that I know where I’m going next year, I wish I hadn’t come here at all during my junior and senior years of high school. It was just an added stressor.</p>
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<p>as a current High schooler, CC has emphasized just how important EARLY college planning is and how much ahead of the pack you can get if you just take the time to plan ahead. So few people don’t plan for the future and then wonder why they didn’t get to where they wanted to be.</p>
<p>Another thing I have learned is that colleges don’t give much thought to where you attended high school. As long as you have what they are looking for in terms of grades, personality,etc., a potential student is not disreguarded due to WHERE he got those grades, personality trates, etc. ; as long as he has them.</p>
<p>CC made me realize just how difficult getting into a top university/LAC would be, and that I need to do more than just have good grades. It also made me realize that I need to become more involved with school, and that I should be thinking of college before half way through junior year.</p>