<p>I have a friend who was overly obsessive about college the past year. All summer he was away visiting colleges and all fall he was writing applications and scholarship essays. He had no life during this period. He is a good student, but not that smart. He has about a 92 overall GPA, but on a rising trend from 85 to 96. He only scored a mid 1200 on his SAT (which I feel more accurately represents him). So anyway, he applied to nine colleges (more than average at my school) and he recently told me he got into ALL of them. I told him that he screwed up and that he could have gotten into much better colleges (I didn't really say it that way). I believe he got into schools such as Oneonta and Loyola. Was I correct in saying that he should have tried for higher, and that he basicly spent all that time and screwed up? (he still has no clue where he is going)</p>
<p>I wouldn't say it's a "failure", as long as he's happy. Not everyone needs a superselective school to be satisfied... in fact I think most people (outside of CC) don't! Just congratulate your friend on his acceptances, and hopefully he'll choose the college where he feels he'd be happiest, regardless of selectivity or rankings. :)</p>
<p>What a nice friend you are.. jeesh...from your thread title, I would not want you around too much</p>
<p>Your friend may have under-reached, but by no means FAILED. That is harsh.</p>
<p>Perhaps, he might have gotten into a reach school, but that is not your call to make or even comment on. </p>
<p>Congratulate him and move on</p>
<p>OH NOoO YOUR FRIEND HAS FAILED AT LIFE YOU MUST STOP TALKING TO HIM ALTOGETHER AND SPREAD RUMORS ABOUT THIS IN SCHOOL TO START HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA!!!!111one</p>
<p>I just felt like sounding mean in the post. Of course I have congratuated him and I think it is great that he a a variety of choices :). I did, however, metion to him that maybe he restricted is selection a bit too much.</p>
<p>well there's no point in pointing this out now. I mean, he can't apply to more selective schools now, so why mention it?</p>
<p>basically you're a poop.
whats done is done- congratulate your friend and thats that.
oh, and if i were you- APOLOGIZE.</p>
<p>what schools do you think he should have applied to? He does not sound like a very impressive applicant.</p>
<p>Not everyone is a prestige wh*re. Congratulate your friend; he is able to choose from nine colleges that he picked and that would all be happy to have him. There are more improtant considerations than rankings.</p>
<p>I agree with ShadowOfAnEnigma's last sentiments. Fit - financially, academically and socially - really are the best criteria to use. It's better to be safe and be happy then only have one choice (or none) because you overestimated yourself and applied to reaaches.</p>
<p>maybe he wants to go to a school where he will be one of the smartest students instead of just average. with so much research on college, he obviously made an informed decision.</p>
<p>This is a pointless post.</p>
<p>In a pointless thread.</p>
<p>Even if you buy into the idea that going to a super-elite college gives you a big advantage in life, your friend wasn't going to be accepted to one of those anyway. In that case, it was just a matter of getting into a school that he would like. He was more successful than the person, whoever they are, who goes to one of the prestigious schools in the Fall and finds out that they really don't like it that much after they are there,no matter how prestigious it is.</p>
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<p>In a pointless thread.
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Made by a person of pointless existence. </p>
<p>Everything is just so damn ... pointless.</p>
<p>this thread, especially the op, made my sides hurt.</p>
<p>Haha. Ouch PavelB. =P</p>
<p>Yeah...I don't understand you reason for creating this thread. If he's happy to go where he got in, then you should be happy too.</p>
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I do hate to continue this thread, but... there seems to an implicit assumption in the OP that a person who is serious about life and works hard is not as successful as a person who gets a higher SAT score. This is so opposite to the way that life works. The only way that the OP makes any sense is if the poster feels that his "friend" is a loser and it bothers the poster that his "friend" doesn't recognize the fact.</p>
<p>I DO NOT AGREE WITH THAT AT ALL dufus3709. First off, I believe GPA is a much better indicator of intelligence, potential, ect. (in most cases). Also I do not think my friend is a LOSER at all. He's just not the brightest, which is not meant to be derogatory. Get this; a few days ago he was over my house. When he got in his car to leave he just sat there, and about 5-10 minutes later he got out saying "It wont' shift into drive". He complained that this was an ongoing problem and that he had to get it fixed. I said I have never heard of that and decided to go out to his car to take a look. My friend got in the car, started it up, and proceeded to try to shift the thing will all he's work. I thought he was going to snap the stick in two. (Automatic trans. btw). I looked down and noticed that he had his foot on the gas!!! Anyone who drives knows you CANNNOT shift unless your foot is on the brake. (it's not something you forget how to do!). This was after he had his license about six months and drove to school nearly everyday.</p>
<p>Yet somehow he managed to get into 9 schools</p>
<p>My H can not work the tv- if he pushes the wrong button, he yells for me to come and fix the remote, or change tha batteries in his pager, or fix the printer or deal with the dishwasher</p>
<p>But he can do construction</p>