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You can want to go wherever, just don’t look down on others for having their eyes set on schools you view as “lesser” or imply that they’re less intelligent and couldn’t hope to understand you.</p>
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So? Me too, doesn’t mean I can’t make friends. And for me, it’s a bit bigger than different target schools. Once you stop viewing people so negatively, things will get better. It doesn’t matter what school you want to go to.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s inferior. I respect some of the UCs and the people who go there and I’m perfectly okay if I end up with going to one, it’s just that it dismays me seeing people who have the potential to end up to greater places and having this “whatever” attitude. It kind of sucks to be around, you know, as a person like me who has this Type A, overachieving attitude. And then the administration doesn’t even encourage people to do more either. I’ve seen many come and go who could have ended up at the colleges of their dreams, like Harvard and MIT, but they just settled for doing less and the counselors and faculty didn’t even push them or provide them with the necessary resources and information.</p>
<p>Well, who says that Harvard and MIT are better schools for those people? Everyone has different life plans.</p>
<p>And most schools are happy when they send a lot of students to state schools; those are students going off to college to better themselves. It doesn’t matter if it’s a college that’s been associated with a prestigious brand name or not, it’s an institution of higher learning.</p>
<p>Alot of kid’s in my school look no higher than UGA, but do i get frustrated? no!</p>
<p>I don’t care, they’re not me, and besides state school isn’t as bad as people say it is. It doesn’t matter where you go, it matters what you do when you’re there.</p>
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In fact, most people think highly of their large state schools. It’s just this microcosm of the population found on this website that often has delusions of grandeur when it comes to the Ivy League Sports Conference, or whatever other capital letters they want to throw around as being “top” schools or so much better. It is amusing.</p>
<p>I think you should just worry about yourself. Challenging yourself and not settling for less is perfectly fine. That’s great. However, don’t be overly concerned by what others do and, subsequently, criticize them for their decisions. I will admit being around 1.0 GPA kids can also be irritating, but then I realize that I’m not in any position to criticize them. If, a few years down the road, someone is happy working a low-paying job that requires minimal education, then that’s all that matters. What they decide to do with their lives shouldn’t concern you, just as what you decide to do with your life shouldn’t concern them.</p>
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<p>I think it’s hard to be with kids so different, but are they? I mean do you know their longterm goals? </p>
<p>I say this because as a professor, married to a professor, we both went to local state schools. Vast majority of the most published people in my field started at ‘local’ schools. I went to the very very best school in my field for my PhD: my cohort was 5 students, one from Ivy League, others from schools you’ve never heard of. We all turned out similar, going to great schools for our first positions. My best friend from grad school, who is now an associate dean at Harvard, worked for 5 years in a restaurant before going to college near her home, at a place you’ve never seen on CC.</p>
<p>Life is a long crooked path, and it’s not a race. The end-all-be-all is not USNWR T20, not by a long shot! It surely doesnt determine where youll be careerwise, or what graduate schools youll get into. Most change majors, many change schools, the majority end up not working in a job related to their major. Early childhood dreams evolve into different things and many young people take awhile to find what they want to do (or to get motivated to pursue their passion). You will be shocked by where people go and where they end up.</p>
<p>That’s a good insight starbright, thank you.</p>
<p>Your life is what you make of it, not what a brand name does.</p>
<p>Omg, I get ridiculed all the time for wanting to leave the state. 99% of our high school grads who attend college go in-state, and about 50% of them go to our local university.</p>
<p>I understand you. My friends want to go to schools like PLU and UPS (I live in Washington, the Puget Sound area). I mean, UW Seattle is an amazing school --don’t get me wrong-- and I would be happy if I was able to study my field of choice there, but sometimes I wish that I had more options. Even y own study-your-a**-off-or-fail-at-life family is pushing UW. I really wish that I could go to JHU, but no one cares.</p>
<p>I know that some kids struggle in school, and forgive my cringe-worthy condensation, but I believe that everyone is capable of achieving a 4.0 GPA, and it’s your own fault if you don’t try. There are uncontrollable factors that may hinder a person, but they need to push through. Whenever I hear someone saying, “I’m going to community college, and then I’m going to marry a rich guy,” I cringe. When my friends say they want to go to a local college, I always think, “You can do so much more, though!”</p>
<p>One of the reasons why I don’t want to attend an instate college is because I know I’m capable of achieving more, and I don’t want to be in a school with kids who haven’t. Why try so hard if in the end you’re going to end up with kids who didn’t? Don’t misinterpret that – I love what I’m doing in high school right now, but sometimes I feel as if I deserve more …</p>
<p>Wow, way to blow my ego out of proportion to my already huge head. :/</p>
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No. Most people can do better than they’re currently doing, but not everybody can get an A in every class.</p>
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The first part of that isn’t cringe worthy at all; the second part most CERTAINLY is.</p>
<p>^ The sad thing, though, is that almost every student’s mindset in my high school is like that. Well, the girls …</p>
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I’m not sure about that. I kind of helped a friend last semester. Every day, she’d complain about how hard her chem class was and how horrible the teacher was, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc., and it was annoying to say the least. I knew she wasn’t studying - more like painting her nails in class - and just told her to shut up and spend each 0 hour studying instead of paying attention to Health class (which is a joke class all sophomores have to take). She went from a C+ to an A in two weeks, and missed three problems on the final.</p>
<p>It’s just effort. Sometimes luck can play a part, but I don’t know.</p>
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<p>THIS THIS THIS.</p>
<p>And let me just say that “capable of achieving more” does not mean I’m going to find a cure for cancer, or create a multi billion company while other students who received a 2.5 aren’t. In fact, there are counterexamples in the media today.</p>
<p>I just feel as though I’ve put in more effort than some of the people I know, and I don’t want to end up in the same place. It would kind of void my effort. Is that a horrible mindset?</p>
<p>This is exactly how my school is. They don’t motivate anyone to do anything more than what’s average. It’s “aim for CSULB.” My counselors practically discourage any deviation from the standard high school schedule. Everyone goes insane when they hear about a kid getting into a UC, as if it’s an Ivy. Some of the kids in my class are really going to blow some minds when we set the new standard in a couple of years.</p>
<p>^ I still can’t believe the counselors disallowed taking chemistry.</p>
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<p>Not at all, and I absolutely agree. I’ve been working my ass off for the past few years (and I will continue to do so) to get into the school of my dreams, or at least one similar.</p>
<p>One of my older friends has a sister who went to a Cal state school, and her parents are thinking of sending here there too, even though she’s put so much more effort into her education and can easily get into some UCs. It’s discouraging to see her efforts go to waste, and to know that she could have enjoyed her high school years and ended up in the same position is just depressing.</p>
<p>I’m not putting in all of this effort to go to the same school where the kids who don’t give a **** about college end up (not that CSULB is terrible, per se… I just hold myself to a higher standard) . If I knew I’d end up at CSULB, I would be half-assing all my work, cheating off of the smart kids, smoking weed, having sex/wasting time with girls, and actually getting some sleep - basically, I’d be a “normal” kid and enjoy myself, because I’d still end up in the same place as the nerd who never slept. The difference is, I have expectations of myself, and they require that I do more than the bare minimum to get by. I’m not living a stressful life now so I can get to the same place where the kids who don’t give a **** go. </p>
<p>I’m putting my heart into my education so that I end up in the places where all the brilliant people go, and that’s what anyone else who truly cares about education deserves. **** any counselors who discourage/doubt true achievement, and godspeed to those who work to prove them wrong. </p>
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<p>Ughhh. I could be in Physics Honors right now.</p>
<p>^ + AP Biology too</p>
<p>^I thought that was 5th period? Can’t fit that in with APWH :/</p>
<p>Now it will have to wait until senior year…</p>
<p>No there is a 4th period AP Bio too…oh wait thats English though. Dangit</p>