<p>bazcat i think you miss my point entirely. obsessing with getting a 99 on an AP class? i guess i dont fall into the stereotypes of the people in this message board.</p>
<p>science nerd i probably exactly feel how you feel. minus the cying part lol.</p>
<p>yayarea510 posted:
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bazcat i think you miss my point entirely. obsessing with getting a 99 on an AP class? i guess i dont fall into the stereotypes of the people in this message board.
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Actually I wasn't responding to your post. I was speaking generally. These forums seem to be filled with people who are so obsessed with prestigious that they are wasting their High School years doing all they can to get into these schools without stopping to consider why they want to attend these schools so badly. Frankly, the next time I see some Harvard obsessed person freaking out over a B+ I may have to throw something. Honestly people, its about the journey and what you get out of it, not how impressed strangers are with your brand name school.</p>
<p>Well I have a 4.2 Weighted GPA, 1200's SAT and Full Diploma IB Candidate.</p>
<p>I am going to FIU. When I decided i was going to FIU at first I thought that I wasted all my time in IB and I even expressed my feelings to a teacher. She actually cheered me up, she said things such as:</p>
<p>At FIU I will have a full ride, nothing to pay out of my pocket, instead I will have scholarship money leftover each year.</p>
<p>My study habit as well as being able to handle a hard courseload will help me with college as I wont feel much difference in the work given and I will actually be used to do lots off hw + studying.</p>
<p>So after she told me, I was rather content regarding my situation. Best thing I think is that im not going to pay anything. If you head over to the Financial forum, you will see how much people go into debt just to attend the private colleges etc.</p>
<p>Well, I already feel like it's wasted, anyway, even before the application process, so I guess that's a no.</p>
<p>I'm sick of taking classes just to buoy my GPA. I don't want a strict work ethic; I want to learn how to do the minimum amount of work to get what I want, which, now that I think about it, isn't a whole heckuva lot - a small house/town house, a computer, a few pieces of furniture, a car, a tv, and some downtime when needed, in addition to necessities. So why am I working so hard when I want to have fun, and could satisfy my desires of life relatively easily?</p>
<p>I guess it's ingrained in me, but how I've come to loathe it...</p>
<p>my parents would get mad at me because i wasted their money for the application fee thing but i wouldnt necessarily feel like i wasted my time because i took a chance at applying to a school and lost and thats how life is sometimes</p>
<p>I would feel... almost betrayed. My time in high school would get em other places, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.</p>
<p>To all who think you wasted your time:</p>
<p>My sibling had gotten into the University of Michigan and graduated from there. Ever since I saw the campus, I fell in love with it. I thought that I belonged there since the people there were the best of the best in high school. I had wanted to get in ever since I was in eighth grade (I'm now a freshman in college). I worked so hard in high school, forefeiting the parties and all that fun stuff for straight A's in my classes. I was ranked in the top ten percent of my class, I had taken AP classes, I was in numerous organizations, basically I thought what college wouldn't want me? I had spent over 500 dollars on a Kaplan ACT prep course so I could get the act score of 27-30 specifically for U of M. Guess what, after all the hard work, the pain and suffering I had gotten deferred, waitlisted, and then rejected from U of M. Michigan State University was not my first choice and I dreaded going here. I cried about it, I resented going to my second choice school.</p>
<p>The first person I told about my waitlist was my biology teacher in high school, and I was bawling my eyes out telling him that those four years of high school were a complete waste. And he told me that <bold> It's not a waste, it's a roadblock</bold> Also, my econ teacher told me that <bold> There is a plan, there's a reason why you didn't get in</bold>.</p>
<p>Guess what? They were both right. If I had not gone to MSU, I wouldn't have met all the wonderful people who are now my friends and I wouldn't have met the professor who made me fall in love with his field. And it's UofM's loss not mine. :) </p>
<p>Things happen for a reason, you'll find out afterwards why you didn't get in. It's not the end of the world, and like what someone else said, it's not WHERE you go to, it's WHAT you make of the place you attend. I still wonder what would've happened if I had gone to U of M, however, it's best to not think about it and make the best of it here. I still don't know the reason why I'm at MSU, and I won't know until I graduate with a degree.</p>
<p>...I like to think it is not what you make of where you attend, but what you make of yourself, wherever you are. My dad told me a Chinese adage the other day - "Gold is gold; it will shine no matter where it is, so long as you clean it off."</p>
<p>Barring the little flaw (nothing shines in the dark :D), I took it to mean that if you are capable, you'll be good wherever you go, so long as you work hard.</p>
<p>Hey, look at me be idealistic/optimistic and cynical/pessimistic in the same thread! :p</p>
<p>I feel like I've wasted my time. While I'm not sure where I will get into out of the top tier schools I applied to, I'm almost positive I'll be in at UF and I already got in at Rollins. Problem is that my parents don't want to pay for crap, and they're rich, so I'm screwed. I could have goofed off a lot more and still gone to UF for free. Waste of time.</p>
<p>lol all i can do is wait til march. hopefully it will be good.</p>
<p>I don't think it would be a waste at all. I am probably going to apply to four reach schools (Duke, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Bowdoin) and not going to get into any of them. Even though Dartmouth would (as of now) be my first choice, I would not mind if I don't get in. It probably means if I got in I would find it hard to graduate and I wouldn't stand out in the class no matter what. </p>
<p>If I don't get accepted I'll see it as a good thing actually. It can teach me how to adapt to new situations and how to learn to love things I once hated. </p>
<p>With regards to wasting all that time and money, I don't think it really is a waste. Think about it this way, if you never put in any of that (never sent in the application or worked hard to because president of that club) then you would stand no chance of acceptance. At least this way you know that those admissions officers did spend their time deciding whether to accept you or not. You didn't have "No chance whatsoever".</p>
<p>I applied to about 6 reach school, and I would be disappointed if I didn't get in, but I wouldn't feel as if I wasted my time.</p>
<p>6 reach schools?!?^^ wow kudos to you for that.</p>
<p>No, I wouldn't, because all this time, I will be doing what I love. Hence, the result or reward for learning is not important because learning itself is the most valuable asset.</p>
<p>if i got rejected from my #1 school, i'd probably cry for awhile and get over it in like a month or two (yeah, long time)</p>
<p>now if i got rejected from my #2, i don't know what i would do</p>
<p>I applied to 12 schools in all, about 2 safeties, 3 matches, and actually 7 reaches. :)</p>
<p>I'm not counting on getting into ANY of my reach schools. The only time I would have felt I wasted is on the SAT studying, and college apps and essays.</p>
<p>yes, i know what you're feeling....and I'm going through it right now. I was sitting in Calculus the other day, and a basketball player turned to me and said, "Kate, do you wish you had done anything different in Highschool?"<br>
and then I thought....wow....I could have more friends...have played basketball (which I love)...and not worked myself sick. And probably gotten into some of the schools I'm applying too. </p>
<p>Yeah, if I don't get into my top choices, I'm gonna probably look at the relationships that (could) have worked out, the friends I (could) have had, and the good times that were limited to weekends and breaks...and then, still pretty limited.</p>
<p>Yes, I think a good work ethic is good anyway, but I should have chilled out a little.</p>
<p>seuferk i can definitely relate. all we can do is just hope it was worth it.</p>
<p>agreed. pray. hope...and maybe rejoice in april. NOW I understand why everyone goes nuts on spring break ;)</p>
<p>haha i can't wait til spring break.</p>