<p>@ihatecoolllege – Your heart is great! You just got caught up in the shame stuff. I have blown it many times trying to avoid embarrassment. I am not sure we can help you to the core. So, since you did mention God, he helps me remember 1 john 1:7 “But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong.” If you tell him with your contrite heart, it’s a done deal, bro.</p>
<p>Oops! Sorry dudes!</p>
<p>remember, for the future, NOTHING good starts with a LIE…
if you can keep that in mind and use this experience to remind yourself that truth matters, then you will have learned something…
most people will not care about schools you were “accepted” at and did not attend…</p>
<p>pay it forward…do good yourself…focus on positive things and learn from your past…that will be enough repentance …</p>
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<p>Horrible environment? Obviously you’ve never been to Pasadena</p>
<p>^ I think it depends on your point of view. tbch (pun), There’s nowhere I’d want to be less than Los Angeles (except maybe Montana), whereas tons of people would probably hate living in Maine</p>
<p>Any particular reasons you dislike the idea of living in Los Angeles?</p>
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<li>Hot all year</li>
<li>Air is tobacco smoke</li>
<li>Hollywood is LA’s principal culture</li>
<li>Horrible traffic.</li>
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<p>Nothing against LA itself, but it’s just not for me, just like you’d be bored to death if you lived on Swan’s Island, which I would very much enjoy</p>
<p>It’s not even just the natural environment. It’s more so the type of people who’d want to go there.</p>
<p>^^^And yes I agree. I’d never want to live in Los Angeles either. I’ve actually heard of lots of people thinking the same way. Maine actually seems more preferable, and I was actually considering one of their colleges at one point.</p>
<p>Although I’ve heard Pasadena is actually in the middle of nowhere with lots of “green grass”. Which actually doesn’t seem too bad.</p>
<p>And plus it’s in the Chaparral biome. ugh. And it’s probably the whole “urban” environment.</p>
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<li> It’s 64 F right now. And overcast</li>
<li> Not that many people smoke here</li>
<li> Gross generalization. Doesn’t hold true for Pasadena and certainly not at Caltech.</li>
<li> QQ. But again, not really applicable to Pasadena or your typical college student.</li>
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<p>^ overcast with smog???//slash??//slash?//??///?? lol jk</p>
<p>I’d take Pasadena over LA, and probably Mexico City too. I’d need to see Pasadena middle of nowhere to compare it to Amherst, Maine middle of nowhere</p>
<p>It’s going to rain in the next two days</p>
<p>–> clean air</p>
<p>That’s probably only comparative.</p>
<p>?? Rain makes the air as clean as anywhere. LA gets a bad rap because of how it was in the early 90’s.</p>
<p>Most colleges advise GCs when a student is admitted, especially a school like Yale. GCs are usually very proud when one of their students gets into Yale and they tell parents/students or anyone who would listen. I wouldn’t be surprised if students at OP’s current school would know who got into HYPS. The secret would never be revealed if OP’s old friends and new friends’ paths would never cross, otherwise the secret would get out eventually.</p>
<p>I could understand perfectly well how this could have happened. </p>
<p>I also think Duke is a great choice over CalTech for every major, but engineering. Duke admits very smart students with leadership qualities. It is the reason why they are heavily recruited by many firms, especially finance firms.</p>
<p>When I watched Quantum Hoops, about half the team ended up with jobs in Finance. I remember one of the captains became a derivatives trader.</p>
<p>I’m curious as to what makes Duke a better choice for things like Physics, Chem or Math.</p>
<p>From the very few people I know in my crappy school/in my crappy school district/in my crappy state who got into either Duke or Caltech (both in engineering fields), the two girls who were admitted into the former who more well-rounded leaders than insanely technically smart people. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>The guy and girl who got into Caltech, on the other hand…they gave off the impression that they were more sharp-minded, technically intelligent, and just had leadership positions in physics, chem, math, etc.</p>
<p>Duke’s name sounds prettier, but if you say that you went to Caltech, my (pitifully limited) understanding is that you’d have more recognition for being “smart”.</p>
<p>And to the OP…
I’m sorry. You were probably pressured, although an explanation done the right way would be better in the long run than a lie. Just don’t mention it again, if it gets brought up, be vague but imply that YES, you did get into Yale. If it gets directly challenged, however…I’d just say brush it off. Say it was a mistake. Your mom found it and thought you were accepted, didn’t find out until later, etc.</p>
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<p>I think we just made history here</p>
<p>They both sound crappy (no pun intended until I realized it), but Duke sounds like someone taking a crap, and Caltech sounds a bit better. Caltech sounds like it would be a name of a successful technological company in California, only it’s a college/institute, not a company.</p>
<p>As a southern California resident living in a suburb of Los Angeles, I have to agree with the posters critical of the city.</p>
<p>1) I would prefer actual seasons. All of the seasons just blend together. It’s not desert hot in Los Angeles, but it’s always in the 80s, sometimes 90s. It’s about ten degrees cooler if you live near a beach.</p>
<p>2) There’s no city culture here except Hollywood.</p>
<p>3) The city has no feel to it. It’s so spread apart.</p>
<p>4) The air sucks, and so does the graffiti just about everywhere.</p>
<p>5) The traffic is terrible.</p>
<p>Is it wrong that whenever I think of Los Angeles I think of gang wars? :x</p>
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<li>I don’t mind the weather at all. I like snow and rain actually but whatever. </li>
<li>Hollywood is not the only city culture. and it’s kind of tough to say when you’re in high school anyhow. </li>
<li>the air does suck, get over it. </li>
<li>the traffic sucks as well but hey I actually did something about it and got a (motor)bike.</li>
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<p>MattNC - lol not really. people sterotype south central/inglewood/compton in socal just as much as they do elsewhere, which is kind of sad.</p>