<p>If Harvard is giving away likelies solely for good academics, than Christiansoldier will be first in line.</p>
<p>Uh, please stop ■■■■■■■■. K, thanks, bye. I almost thought you were going to claim you attended RSI and then I was going to call you out on it because I did it, and I would then be forced to interrogate you about it, whereupon your lie would fall apart.</p>
<p>Yeah, academic likelies are not given to 2400 SAT, 36 ACT, every AP class under the sun, all 800 SAT IIs. It’s the Intel Science fair winner, USAMO, published a well-known book, did intensive and extensive research, etc. that normally get academic likelies.</p>
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<p>true statement. if anyone should get one for academics, he’s it.</p>
<p>I know someone with a 36/2400/seimen’s and outside research. I’m sure they’re writing their own ticket about now.</p>
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<p>Sorry Cardsecret, but you destroyed any credibility you had after that post. At least you gave me a chuckle. </p>
<p>I will congratulate you however, on your impressive aptitude for digging up old CC threads about LL’s so that you may quote “random lines” from them.</p>
<p>liar liar pants on fire</p>
<p>yea, actually i feel like that made it less credible because i’m pretty sure (positive) they sent me my likely letter based on my research and they definitely didn’t send me any research brochure
and btw, likely letters aren’t sent for grades or test scores…that’d be stupid </p>
<p>also, you need to research this stuff better because Yale sent out actual letters and a phone call, not emails</p>
<p>I love ■■■■■■ who ■■■■■ on Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Princeton’s CC sites. I wonder if they do it because they KNOW they’ll get caught and they’re just wondering how long it’ll take for people to realize it.</p>
<p>Ok, so let me see what I have been accused of:</p>
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<li>Fabricating “Bigmakkk”</li>
<li>“digging up old CC threads about LL’s”</li>
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<p>Wow. It amazes me how I post that I received three likely letters, and get virtually “burned at the stake” for supposedly lying? For privacy reasons, I would rather not tell you guys the EXACT nature of my accomplishments, so I had to be “painfully vague”. I never asked any of you to believe me, but if you take the initiative to call me a liar, and not only a liar, but a “user fabricator,” please consider the following:</p>
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<li><p>I did not create “Bigmakkk.” I encourage you to e-mail a moderator or look on the profile (if available) and compare IP addresses. Guess what? They’re not the same.</p></li>
<li><p>Dug up old posts on CC for LL’s? I don’t even know how this works, but I’m pretty sure most, if not all, of my LL quotes have NOT been cited on CC before. If they have, I apologize for the mistake, but my main point is that there were quotes that indeed HAVEN’T been cited.</p></li>
<li><p>This thread, for me, primarily served to tell you guys about the content of the LLs, and between getting “burned at stake” and virtually harassed, I think my posts did a good job. I never asked you guys to believe me- there are thousands of other posts you could have read on CC. I directly quoted the likely letters because I HAVEN’T seen it done before on a website. Sorry for trying to help, just chill out everyone.</p></li>
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<p>@Tristan101- My post clearly states academic and benefit work (charity). And yes, I know it’s vague.</p>
<p>@Anonymous93- Okay I didn’t say I attended RSI? I don’t even understand why you posted that.</p>
<p>@Tres Elefantes- Thank you for your confirmation that a person not even mentioned in this thread should receive a likely letter, if indeed they were based on test scores and GPA. Very insightful.</p>
<p>@Jersey13- As mentioned earlier in the post, I don’t understand why you assume I dug through old threads? Please elaborate with some concrete evidence maybe? </p>
<p>@pigs<em>at</em>sea- Again, a very genuine, insightful post.</p>
<p>@rsiftw- I received the Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal with a letter. I don’t know why you didn’t. You should probably wait a few days as there was a slight delay between the LL and the journal. Also, an admissions officer did e-mail me as a follow up to the phone conversation.</p>
<p>I might be missing something significant that everyone else seems to know… But why can’t we can’t we give this kid a break? You’d think a student with these accomplishments would, especially on cc, attract some respect. In fact, I want to say congrats cardsecret! That’s awesome, and I think most of us are just jealous haha.</p>
<p>And if cardsecret is a ■■■■■… I just wasted 3 minutes of my life. Big woop. :)</p>
<p>I am so discouraged . . . I have never made a B in my life . . . I will graduate with 10 AP classes . . . I was never elected to a major office – I go to a school with lots of “preps”, and I am not particularly popular or rich . . . I go to a high school in a small town in NC . . . I just feel that I have done everything in my power to be accepted into colleges, but it’s still not good enough, and right or wrong, that’s so discouraging to me . . . I have interviewed with Brown and have an interview scheduled with Yale – but none with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, or Duke . . . </p>
<p>Have just cried a lot tonight . . . lots of pressure knowing I have done my best, but that my best may not be good enough . . . </p>
<p>Thanks for listening everyone . . . </p>
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<p>Awww!!^ bugsliberty!! Don’t be sad! I feel the exact same way as you, except I felt like I could have done more with my time. I keep on bringing up my Yale SCEA rejection… but I honestly felt like I would die if I didn’t get in! I just felt like everything I had done should be good enough and that I somehow deserved it!
After the rejection I realized that I did what I could and tried my best. </p>
<p>You obviously worked your butt off these past 3.5 years and have done your best. Just know that there are a lot of people who feel the same way as you do and that you aren’t alone! At this point, I will just let fate decide my future and if I get denied at every top school then I know it isn’t where I was meant to go. I’m sure that you will get accepted to a fantastic school, and you’ll be happy no matter if its Harvard or not!!:):)
Relax and Enjoy your senior year, you only have a couple more months to relish all your high school memories:):):)</p>
<p>@bugsliberty- I know you are discouraged right now, but take heart in the fact that you did your ABSOLUTE best, and it’s not the end, in fact, it’s only the beginning. </p>
<p>…and the alumni interview doesn’t matter as much as you think. Just because you didn’t get one has absolutely NO INFLUENCE on your admission influence. I received the letter from Yale and Stanford without an alumni interview prior to the likely letter.</p>
<p>Thanks – collegestress and cardsecret . . . </p>
<p>I wish everyone well and realize that all we can do is our best . . . </p>
<p>Thanks for your encouraging words . . . </p>
<p>Cardsecret, congratulations on your letters!</p>
<p>Best of look to everyone as you make your decisions concerning college . . .</p>
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<p>jeez, i wasn’t even attacking your credibility. lighten up.</p>
<p>hahaha this is such a joke. anyone who is qualified/smart enough to get a non-athletic/hook likely will know theyre not getting the likely because of “good act, good sat II’s, A LOT of college credits”</p>
<p>and its hard to believe that cardsecret’s (1) charity, (2) research, and (3) creativity are all good enough to individually merit non-athletic likely letters. yale and stanford likelies are not that rare, but harvard likely letters are (rumor is ~10 per 1600 admits). nice try though.</p>
<p>Why don’t you read your own post cardsecret</p>
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<p>No one intelligent enough to receive an academic likely letter would make such stupid assumptions as those. Your unfounded presumptuous attitude just further points toward the lack of credibility.</p>
<p>I won’t even try to explain to you how unintelligent claiming you got likely letters from Stanford/Yale/Harvard because of your good act/satIIs/college credits is.</p>
<p>Do you know how many people have perfect scores and a million college credits? A lot. Do you know how many people get likely letters from three of the most competitive colleges in the world? Significantly fewer.</p>
<p>@bugs:</p>
<p>i guess this is a little late considering you’ve already applied to colleges, but not really if you consider this life advice; i hope i’m explaining this correctly
you should do things in your life for yourself and only yourself. to me, it sounds like you are sad over all this because you never took the time to do what you wanted (but this is just me surmising over one post)
you shouldn’t be doing activities and stressing yourself out over things you hate; otherwise, you’ll end up wasting years of your life
life is short and you should find your passion and pursue it
so i guess the next time this advice would apply would maybe be when declaring a major
i know that for many people their parents play a huge role in making decisions, but you should be well aware that you should choose something you love to do
obviously this is probably hard to take, but if you follow this advice, you won’t ever regret anything you’ve done because you were doing what you loved…and interestingly enough it would’ve probably increased your chances of getting into an elite university</p>
<p>obviously this is the poetic version of it; also don’t think you shouldn’t consider what else society cares about, for example you’d still need to take SATs and AP’s, but think of this more as a very temporary means to an end
you should be aware of what others think, but just realize that this is your life and do what you care about</p>
<p>it may or may not be true that you get into an elite school, but almost any university that you get into will be able to offer you an excellent education, it just may not be as brand name</p>
<p>realize that this is all out of your control now and that while people may think there’s some set formula for getting into these schools, it’s probably a lot more complicated than that; also, it’s not necessarily that you aren’t ‘good enough’ but that many of these schools can only (will only) accept a small number of people from each school and while they do try to get excellent students in, it isn’t exactly easy to compare people who vary so greatly and over such a wide range of activities. your ‘best’ isn’t quantitative and you should know (maybe this will make you sadder, i don’t know) that a lot of the kids who end up being accepted aren’t as qualified
i really hope you enjoy the rest of your senior year and your years in college because while they can be times of stress and tears, they should also be the time of your life</p>
<p>for all i know, this advice won’t even be applicable to you, but this is just my two cents</p>