How To Get Into Any College You WANT.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My theory:</p>

<p>The world is a buffet table.
Unfortunately there is only one of each item.
The fastest from their seats will get it.</p>

<p>If you really wanted to go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the likes, then all you would really need is the DESIRE.</p>

<p>The DRIVE.
The INSPIRATION.</p>

<p>That's what you need to get into college.
Now nobody cares if it's Christianity, your mother, your poverty, your desire for wealth.
Nobody really cares, as long as you have something to inspire you.
Something to DRIVE you.
If you have that drive then you would have an innate inspiration and logic to do everything necessary to reach university. You would go to MUN, be president of your school, 4.0 GPA, perfect SATs, and the likes.</p>

<p>Unfortunately most people never attain that inspiration.
This page could be it, it might not. However I'm not trying to godsend you something. I'm trying to hint YOU.
In the end a person outside YOUR life can only do so much.
The REST is up to YOU and how much do YOU really WANT it?</p>

<p>How much do you really WANT to go to Harvard.
Don't make excuses; they're for losers.
Just do it, and if you can't do it, then you are one person the world will just glance at, discard, and forget.</p>

<p>It really is all up to your desire to get into college because in our tiny capitalist society only winners can win.</p>

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<p>1) you should capitalize the entire thread. capitalize, get it? get it?
2) this doesn't belong in the chances forum.
3) are you sure you are not a preacher?</p>

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<p>I really did NOT want to READ this because it sounded completely CHEESY and has nothing to do with ME. And also your metaphors are MIXED because if the world were a BUFFET table it would not be able to "glance at, discard, and forget." And I really did NOT need you to tell ME that only "winners can win." </p>

<p>I could have figured that one out myself, I think...</p>

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<p>yeah....good point though to the OP. I think most ppl on here have already realized that. But you make a good point to those that haven't. To an extent, it's all about how bad you want it. If you study enough and focus to get the best grades possible, and prepare far in advance, you'll get into a great school. But no, it's not merely about how much you really WANT to go to Harvard. Those schools are crapshoots and pick at their will. The most one can do is make sure they're in the ballpark and hope they are what the adcoms want.</p>

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<p>this is too subjective, there r a lot of things that you need other than only inspiration and those. like how smart you are, and how lucky you are</p>

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<p>dude this is the creepiest thread i have ever seen. calm down, people, harvard is a COLLEGE. it is one of many prestigious colleges. you're acting like getting into harvard is like attaining salvation for your eternal soul or something. yale all the way, baby</p>

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<p>lol think he's just using Harvard as an example of one of the many prestigious colleges.</p>

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<p>yeah but when people get this rabid about college admissions i just get a little creeped out. i mean DRIVE INSPIRATION SATS OMGOMG...dude chill out.</p>

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<p>lol sry bout that, sumtimes i feel like splurting my emotions onto somewhere, sry u guyz had to be the victims.. i think im just trying to inspire myself or sumthing like that, yup</p>

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<p>lol</p>

<p>cc is the place to splurt your emotions? jk</p>

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<p>friends are nice.</p>

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<p>Hmmm... I would never go to Harvard even in the unlikely chance I am admitted. Who lives for colleges? I once considered doing an EC that is around 30 miles from my house for college since I have very little compared to some of the people on this board, but I realized that the only reason I considered doing it was for college. I do not live for college. College is a stepping stone that exists for me. Maybe doing the EC will help me go to Harvard or Stanford, but I am not longer doing what I like to do (which unfortunately is sitting and playing computer games). It would be nice to enjoy some nice hobby like piano or violin, but the desire is not there. Besides, UC Berkeley isn't so bad and they accept people almost 100% based on grades and a little based on SATs.</p>

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<p>amen about playing computer games and not whoring myself out for colleges</p>

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<p>This isn't true I think. I know a lot of dumb people who have the desire and work their butts off but because they go to my school (elite prep school) they still get all B's. They will get into college, but they never had a shot at Harvard no matter how hard they try.</p>

<p>Not to be cynical though. One of the mottos I try to live by is "success is directly proportional to effort." However, this doesn't mean that every single person has the capacity to get into harvard..... idk, maybe I'm just a pesimist.</p>

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<p>while your motto is admirable, i don't think success is always directly proportional to effort
but that is also complicated by how one defines success</p>

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<p>Reality check.</p>

<p>Sometimes those very kids who are incredibly motivated and do everything within their power to get themselves into a certain school do get rejected.</p>

<p>Sometimes it's because of something out of their control, like inability to pay for the college or special circumstances meaning they won't be able to be far from home. Sometimes they just weren't what the school was looking for that year (too many kids from their location / playing their sport / taking their major). Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw, because each school only has so many spaces to fill, and too many qualified applicants.</p>

<p>And sometimes, no matter how hard they worked or how driven or passionate they were, they just couldn't make the grades or follow through with the extra curriculars, or whatever.</p>

<p>There's a lot of luck and a lot of chance in this world, and telling people that they can get into any school they want to just by wanting it badly enough isn't inspirational, it's cruel. It's like telling each and every presidential candidate before the primaries that he or she WILL be president if he or she just tries hard enough. That's simply not the truth -- we all know that there can only be one president at a time, and that a presidential race is just as much about luck, money, and what the public wants in a particular year, not just about ambition or passion for "the issues."</p>

<p>Hard work, motivation, drive, passion, inspiration... they're all part of the equation for getting into college, but lots of hardworking, motivated, driven, passionate, inspired students get rejected from every school, every year. If you try to tell people otherwise, you're being unrealistic and hurtful.</p>

<p>What would you say to somebody who got into Yale but not Stanford? Williams but not Swarthmore? Did they just not try hard enough? Happens to a lot of people, a lot of the time.</p>

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<p>Yeah, these college admissions are crazy. Nothing is a sure bet at top level schools. All I can say is work hard, do your best, put in some effort and hope for the best. </p>

<p>I think it's also important for kids to realize that you don't need to go to Harvard, Yale or Princeton to be happy and successful in life.</p>