<p>LOL, I just realized how moody I am getting ****ed off at people on a forum just because I’m sick. This is comical now. xD</p>
<p>I’m sorry for the harshness Esmee 
but reality is true even though I hate to be like that to you.</p>
<p>The Hairy Lemon: I’m letting it slide by as quick as it can. 
can’t wait to get out of there.</p>
<p>Esmee, I hope the next post doesn’t come off as arrogant or condescending. In any other context, I probably would be legitimately arrogant, but here I’m actually trying to help.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m your stereotypical CCer. I have a core 4.0 UW and several AP classes, 13 AP tests, 36 ACT, etc. I’m an Intel STS Semifinalist and attended a prestigious summer program, too. And you know what? One of my top choice colleges is Michigan State University. Not bad, by any means, but not nearly what most CCers would expect for someone like me. There’s absolutely no shame in going to a non-top 20 college, or even non-top 50. Think of it this way: You’ll be at the very top. These colleges will do so much to attract kids like you. Yes, there are colleges who want you. Apply for your Ivy Leagues and other elite colleges (I did too), but find the ones that want you too.</p>
<p>Yeah Esmee, as long as you manage that out, things will work out. 
+ thumbs up.</p>
<p>esmee, from your threads it seems as if this school (and CC) is causing you a considerable amount of unneeded stress. You’re only a freshman.</p>
<p>It would probably benefit you to drop out and transfer to a public school. The competition and ridiculous grading scale at your school is absurd. A 96 (which would be awesome at any other school) is considered “low” at your school because of grade inflation. So because of your weird school, you’re fretting about your rank, honors classes, etc freshman year. Trust me, it’ll only get worse.</p>
<p>At most publics schools, you can take as many honors as you want (provided that you don’t kill yourself) and you’ll probably feel much more relaxed. And because you’ll actually be at the top of your class, you’re much more likely to get into a better school.</p>
<p>Or you can just forget about Ivies/top schools and make your life a whole lot simpler :P</p>
<p>Esme’s posts/stress/life are ridiculous. Calm down dearie. Not going to a top college is not the end of the world. Most college students are happy where they end up, even if it’s a state school that’s not UMich or its ilk. Just stop stressing. Seriously. NBD. You will be fine.</p>
<p>I also need to include some extra things into Millancad’s post: College admissions nowadays are very competitive than before so I don’t think there will be even a penny of a point to put yourself under pressure. In these times, the selective schools are either a pick or nothing.</p>
<p>If your stressing yourself now imagine when you get to college, some classes it would be extremely hard to get an A sometimes a C sounds nice. Just be happy if a college treats you like a number it isn’t the one for you.</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter where you go to school as much as what you make of the opportunities at the school. First evaluate the reasons why you want to go. Many, especially people who haven’t researched the schools, want to go because of the name, prestige, or what others have told them. There are manymanymany successful people who never went to a top school, let alone college itself.</p>
<p>Ha, my friend with a 102 average and 2110 SAT score wanted to go to Yale, but got rejected. He also was rejected to Columbia. So where is he now… at SUNY Stonybrook and is happy there so far. </p>
<p>I asked him to help me add a third top school to my list and he said “I would prefer this state school over your other two.”</p>
<p>See, even top kids somehow do not try to put down attending a State University when they get rejected to those schools.</p>
<p>I agree with hopefuleagle. People in my school that go to ivy league complain all the time with low gpa but people I know that go to state universities have a great time and don’t complain is enjoying their college life. Living is all about the quality of life. Enjoy it while you can and don’t obsess over something. You still might be just as success. Try getting into a ivy graduate school.</p>
<p>^Eh, the Ivies, esp. Harvard, have huge grade inflation. Why would they complain about low GPA? More like, they should complain at UChicago or MIT.
Most of the Ivies, partially on account of the grade inflation, I guess, are seen as relatively fun schools. Yes, hard ones (especially “gorges” Cornell, the pressure cooker). None of them have unofficial mottos like MIT’s “IHTFP” (I hate this … place) or Chicago’s “Where Fun Comes to Die” “Where the only thing that goes down on you is your GPA” and “Where the squirrels are cuter than the girls and more aggressive than the guys.” Not that MIT doesn’t have its own reputation as a part school, but you know what I mean.</p>
<p>I stand by the idea of my first point, I’m just not cool with Ivy denigration.</p>
<p>It’s still going to be difficult getting a 3.0 at Harvard College. It’s a 1st place ranked school in the country so it can’t just right away have students pull As with the “grade inflation.”</p>
<p>I’d rather go to a top public and make sure I do well, then go to an Ivy and do average… don’t worry too much now.</p>
<p>Hey, thanks, everyone. I feel so much better now… I actually feel like my life is not over if I don’t get an upward trend or if I don’t get into a top school. Thanks!!! Just thanks (even if you made fun of me, because it made me feel dumb for hating you, even when I didn’t know you)!!!</p>
<p>You made my self-esteem improve. :)</p>
<p>Woo, I’ll put away the rope and substitute it for a gold star.</p>
<p>I’m sorry for pushing you too serious esmee, you’re only a freshmen girl. :(</p>
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<p>Harvard’s average GPA as of 2004 was 3.48. So it probably wasn’t too difficult to get a 3.0. In recent years, between 80 and 90% of the senior class has graduated with Honors. They’re fixing it now, but grade inflation was pretty obscene for a while there.</p>
<p>[Faculty</a> Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/6/faculty-tries-to-combat-grade-inflation/]Faculty”>Faculty Tries To Combat Grade Inflation | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>^^ I especially like how CCers become so much more considerate and helpful when they found out she was a girl. </p>
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<p>I have a friend at Harvard and she told me that grading really depends. The math and science classes are all really hard since those are quite objective subjects. But since my friend is majoring in Lit, she says its hard to get an A but equally as hard to get a C. Most people get B’s or occasional A’s at Harvard. You might scoff at B’s, but considering the fact that most Harvard students came from 3.8 -4.0 GPAs and 2200+ SAT scores, I’m pretty sure many students were disappointed that they weren’t excelling like in high school.</p>
<p>Nice realization esmee. </p>
<p>I recall some of your old threads.</p>