<p>Hugh Hefner went to Illinois. You should be proud</p>
<p>And you can transfer.</p>
<p>honestly, its your own fault for not applying to safer schools that you would be happy to attend.</p>
<p>to be honest, i bet that most people like you will never be successful no matter where you go. you have the worst attitude and i would be surprised if you even had any real friends. this might sound really mean, but listening to you complain like a baby is pretty annoying. at least try to put it in perspective.</p>
<p>"You don't go from community college to Harvard and you don't go from a StateU to anywhere great."</p>
<p>Wow. I feel for you, OP, but this is absurd. You're telling me that every single person enrolled in this state school is a dumbass not worthy or your time?</p>
<p>"i'm sorry. it sucks to work really hard and end up somewhere you think is mediocre.
but hey, at least you'll be top of the class..:</p>
<p>Just because she's bright and will go to a public university doesn't mean she's guaranteed to be at the top of the class. Such large universities have plenty of bright people, and classes also can be tough-- tougher sometimes than at the nation's most competitive colleges. One also has to continue to work hard in order to get good grades, and if one's sole reason for studying has been to get into a top college, it may be hard to be motivated to study at a college that you think is not worthy of your presence.</p>
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<p>It is pretty mean. Don't think that because I'm whining about a school means that my self-confidence is somehow at stake. I know I can be good at what I want to do and people do like me despite what random naysayers on an internet forum think :) </p>
<p>If you don't like to hear me complain (In the "High School Life" section!? Of CC? Wow, never seen any of those before) you can put on your big girl panties and close the window.</p>
<p>Miss Silvestris, where all did you apply? It does seem a bit strange that as a valedictorian with a 2380 SAT score you could only get into UIUC. Maybe your essays were pretty bad?</p>
<p>Oh, Miss Silverstris, though you may not believe it, there are lots of very bright people who go to UIUC. It's still one of the top public universities in the country. It's not the end of the world. May I suggest that you not go there with the attitude that everyone there is beneath your all-knowingness. I think you'll be shocked that there are people there just as bright as you.</p>
<p>This doesn't sound like mouth-breathers to me.</p>
<p>"Some of UIUC's colleges only admit students at the very top. For incoming freshmen in 2007, the College of Engineering reported ACT average of 30-33 and the College of Business reported an average ACT score of 28-32, somewhat higher than the campus average. Of graduates, UIUC ended up as one of the top 12 (percentage-wise) and top 6 (numerical-wise) feeder state colleges to elite professional schools."</p>
<p>It's #8 out of all public universities and can be considered a Public Ivy.</p>
<p>Here are some people who went there, who certainly can be considered high achievers.
Columnist George Will
Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure
Jon Corzine, governor of NJ and former CEO of Goldman Sachs
Former CEO of Kodak
Jack Welch (GE)
The founders of Netscape, Youtube, and Paypal
Suze Orman (the financial adviser)</p>
<p>That's right, Miss Silverstris, everybody who attends U of I are such losers and never make anything of themselves @@.
Will you achieve as much as those people?</p>
<p>Illinois's awesome. They changed their mascot back to the Indians or something along those lines after years of something dumb and politically correct. You can always transfer after a year, anyway.</p>
<p>I applied to some other schools. I'm not going to name them, but they're in "CC Top Universities" forum.</p>
<p>My essays weren't bad and I'm not valedictorian. Maybe WAS going to be, except for administrative erroe that I'm steaming about. My SAT isn't quite that high. Can I ask which post you're referring to alpha2018?</p>
<p>I bet CC made you that way.</p>
<p>I know you're looking for a pity party, but to borrow your own words, "put on your big girl panties and deal with it." Life will not treat you fairly in every instance - everyone gets upstaged by someone else if not many others in the college admissions process (even CC people). This isn't the end - see where the two waitlistings take you and remember that it won't be hard to make a change next year.</p>
<p>I'm currently at Caltech for grad school. I'd say around a third of my friends came from lower ranked state schools than UIUC. While as an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, I knew a pretty good number of grad students that had gone to state schools for their undergrad and were doing perfectly fine there. One guy I worked with in a lab while at CMU was from Penn State and was one of the most efficient, effective workers I knew.</p>
<p>State schools get a lot of really smart students, many of them belong to families that can't afford more expensive options or get scholarships that are too good to turn down. I think once you go to UIUC and stop acting like a spoiled brat you'll find there are people that are easily your intellectual peers (or perhaps you won't meet them, because they won't want to associate with someone so derisive of the student population there).</p>
<p>I totally feel for you. If I were in the same situation, I'd be just as irate. But the only thing left to do now is to make the most of your current situation, right?</p>
<p>This isn't so much "Oh! My gigantic cranium and superior intellect are too good for UIUC! Everyone there is stupider than me!" as it is "I hate this school." Sure, maybe there are people who aren't completely stupid and actually have some ambition there but what I don't like is the OVERALL, predominating attitude of the school. Get it yet?</p>
<p>And no "Ohh, you don't know that!" Yes. I do. I visited and found it fell very short of my expectations. This has turned less into me being a whiny ***** and more about everyone here who goes/has gone/knows somewho who is in a state school and feels that this is a personal attack on their intelligence. It isn't.</p>
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<p>Didn't notice that was from a while back</p>
<p>Wow, senior back in '05? Shouldn't you be planning for grad schools by now?</p>
<p>You go to Hersey? Small world.</p>