<p>Also, I think the fact that I included the stats in my post is misleading. I didn't mean to say that people with higher stats are necessarily more intelligent or that no one at UCSD has higher stats than me. Both of those are definitely not true. I've definitely known people with perfect GPA and SATs who were lacking in maturity, and also, well, not too bright. </p>
<p>My point was just to show that my stats are NOT extraordinary in the least. I'm not really extraordinary. But I felt overqualified to be there, because everyone else didn't seem too intelligent. Even the people that I met in BME or engineering in general didn't seem very intelligent. I was disappointed that I didn't meet even one person that I liked at orientation. Which was mostly due to a lack of intelligence rather than their personality.</p>
<p>Also, I'm not expecting to find my best friends as soon as I get into orientation. But I also didn't expect to not find anyone with whom it was actually pleasant to be talking.</p>
<p>HEY EVERLASTING WHY ARE U IN UCSD with that educational profile. with that u couldve easily gone to basically any school in the country. (inc. stanford, yale, cornell, harvard)</p>
<p>once you get into college all this high school stats stuff is soo irrelevant..we're all starting fresh with a clean slate, aren't we? u never know, maybe one of those ppl with not so good stats may end up being a curve setter cuz he/she decides to work real hard</p>
<p>Higher than average stats? Yes. Overqualified? Nope.
College is so much different than high school, and if you think that SAT scores, double-digit AP classes, etc make you good to go for college, I think you're wrong. Expecially for Engineering. To me, evaluating people on their HS stats tells me that you're not quite in the right mindset for college. HS (or as I like to call it, taxpayer-sponsored babysitting) really doesn't matter at all any more.</p>
<p>The main thing that you need to worry about with those stats is: Did you decide to do what you really want to do? Is UCSD BME what you really want, or is it a compromise? If you regret it or second-guess yourself even a little, you aren't going to enjoy your experience. I turned down Stanford for SD (Muir baby!) - no regrets. Like infamy said, we're starting fresh, so enjoy your experience, go with your decision, and don't consider yourself superior based on HS accomplishments... it'll ruin your attitude.
-David</p>
<p>**Edit: **after reading my post (especially the first part) it seems kinda harsh. I don't mean to offend or criticize at all - don't take me wrong :D</p>
<p>To those that turned down Cal or Stanford, I am sorry, but chances you will regret it later, as I have. </p>
<p>The thing is, it is really frustrating to be at a school where the average student is not quite at the same intelligence level as you are. Maybe if someone who has a inferiority-superiority complex might enjoy this, but I sure the hell don't. Also, it makes it hard to establish social relations as well, because your friends might be freaking out about some test and plans to pull all nighters, and you are like, "um, what's there to study?" </p>
<p>But yeah, there are definitely smart people here, in some of the bigger classes ( > 60 people or so) that I've taken, there is usually one or two other people who get scores similar to my own on exams, but you can never figure out who they are, so it is useless.</p>
<p>And also the school offers unpublicized scholarships to highly qualified applicants, so there is a small group of students that are basically being paid to be here. however, i think this is bad both for the general student body and for the small group of elites. For the general student body, they will always have certain people that will throw off the curves, it is unfair. For the elites, they will usually max out on every exam, and their education will not challenge them enough. So to those that think you are overqualified, unless they are paying you to be here, there are others that are much much more overqualified than you are.</p>