**Low Content** my opinion of ivy leaguers whom I personally know

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>they are normal.</p>

<p>yeah, they're pretty normal.</p>

<p>there is this whole mystique around the ivy league, like if someone goes to one, they must be REALLY SMART, right?</p>

<p>not really. chances are very high that they are significantly smarter than average. however, I don't know a single person at an ivy league school whom I would call a "genius"</p>

<p>they work hard, most of them are passionate about something, but the most outlying characteristic is their NORMALCY. you would never expect it.</p>

<p>get the idea out of your head that ivy league is only for geniuses, prodigies, and people who have done amazing EC's. Ivies are mostly inhabited by relatively normal people who are smarter than average, worked hard, and possibly were raised from a young age to have a good college application. CC hypes up what it takes to get into ivy league, but I have been absolutely stunned by just how NORMAL all the ivy leaguers I've met have been.</p>

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<p>Surprised that people are, well, people?</p>

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<p>notsurprised/10.</p>

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<p>I’m glad you think so. I would agree.</p>

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<p>Breaking news: outliers are, in fact, in the minority</p>

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<p>^ and outliers are the majority here</p>

<p>therefore, cc is carpet</p>

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<p>Really? I always imagined them with auras around them and they leave kittens and rainbows footprints as they walk around.</p>

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<p>I actually entirely expected them to be normal people.</p>

<p>What I did NOT expect was for them to have 10 fingers just like me.</p>

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<p>yea sometimes that annoys me too</p>

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<p>Look around. Everything is now diamonds.</p>

<p>Except not really. Ivy League schools are just schools.</p>

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<p>haha</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>well my parents aren’t exactly normal, but I would not blame it on their alma maters</p>

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This. Tsen char</p>

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<p>Whoa, someone just said Tsen Char :O</p>

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<p>Not surprised, nor do I agree that CCers are a majority of outliers (as far as genius goes). People who post here tend to prepare like crazy for SATs and the likes. Now, for true geniuses, check out the artofproblemsolving forums.</p>

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Well if you think they’re in the norm… ?</p>

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<p>OMG!! Really?! I didn’t know that!! lol</p>

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<p>I agree with you. Even when I’m visited Princeton I’ve met only one person that seemed “brilliant” the rest were all smart kids that had a passion in something, whether is be figure skating or acting or whatever…</p>

<p>Harvard on the other hand… Full of brilliant people but also full of your standard ivy smart kid that is passionate about something.</p>

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<p>lol the dozens of Ivy League students I know would probably agree</p>

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<p>although in all due honesty, most of the brilliant geniuses are in grad schools, on research projects, in Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon, CERN, CalTech etc…</p>