<p>Now that I have your attention...</p>
<p>To all you normal kids out there, please realize that this forum is a cesspool of festering teenage insecurity.
I question the purported intelligence of these over-achievers with perfect scores, grades, and profiles if they actually believe that they can get substantive statistical advice from a community of teenagers with absolutely no knowledge of college admissions beyond the Forbes ranking lists. Could these people be flaunting their extensive resumes in an effort to feel superior to others and to assuage some of their deep personal anxieties? Of course not! surely their hours spent in soup kitchens and homeless shelters have taught them a better sense of morality. </p>
<p>I'm sorry if I come off as harsh. I just find it funny that nobody comments on the pretentiousness and pettiness of it all. All I'm trying to say is to the vast majority of you out there - the normal kids who haven't tooled themselves out to every extra-curriculur that "colleges want to see" - keep your head up and don't feel compelled to compare yourself to the over-achievers (many of whom are probably imaginary). Get the grades, do the activities, be the person that allows you to be happy, not the slave to faraway admissions offices. And to those that have sacrificed your four years of high school for ivy dreams, may you live forever. That is all :)</p>