<p>yeesh yeah i imagine that could be rough.</p>
<p>the demographic where i live is pretty educated/competitive, which is also rough because you see people waaaay better than you and EVERYONE asks where you're applying so if you get rejected EVERYONE knows. Haha</p>
<p>Oh, and it's all anyone talks about, so the past 3 months have been SUCH a whinefest! woooo college wooooooo haha</p>
<p>yea, here it's like everyone expects me to get in even though my chances are so slim just because most of them are pretty stupid. </p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>either way, you're kinda screwed.</p>
<p>whatever.
december 11.</p>
<p>hopefully we will both be extremely happy and make our communities happy as well!</p>
<p>definitely. yay for happy communities!...?</p>
<p>Second yay for happy communities!</p>
<p>(Most people here only know HYPSM, though, and whenever I say that I'd love to go to Brown, I get the standard 'is that a good school?' response. But that's fine with me.)</p>
<p>Is getting too attached to Brown a bad thing? :D</p>
<p>yep. it sucks :(</p>
<p>Are you guys working on other apps or just waiting for the Brown results to come in?</p>
<p>I SHOULD be finishing my UC apps (but really I didn't start yet)
but besides that, just waiting for Brown. You?</p>
<p>I'm still a lowly Junior :( :( :(</p>
<p>But I've truely got my heart set on Brown. Yet at my school, everyone's all on a practically three-tiered system:
1. CSU Long Beach (for the average kids who just want to go to any college)
2. UC Berkeley (For the overachiever who wants to feel like they've gone far)
3. UCLA (For the overachiever who is afraid of going away from home)</p>
<p>And a majority of them don't even know of much any of the privates in the LA area, much less East Coast. Haha. And I honestly couldn't see myself at any of the UCs. I NEED to get out of California, if that's the last thing I ever do. I'm just here to cheer you guys on though!</p>
<p>Hah, obstinate, I am right there with you!
I am from Calfornia too (Northern, a few hours from Berkeley). I need to get out of California, or at least out of my town of 2000.</p>
<p>My school is not the most intelligent. We go kinda like this:
1) No college (probably 20%)
2)Community College (around 40-50%)
3)CSU (10-15%)
4)UC (10%)
5)Private (5%)</p>
<p>I just really dont like my school. Its not a great school by any stretch. I am hoping to be in that top 5%!</p>
<p>We have a really good community college next door and so many people plan to go there for 2 years than transfer (the ucs really like our community college and even Berkeley isn't that hard to transfer into) but then end up spending much longer than 2 years there and never transfer.
But I hate it when my friends just insist on going to the Juinor College and refuse to even apply to other schools and see what kinds of financial aid packages they get before assuming they can't afford to go to a 4-year institute.
Ahh well.</p>
<p>I know, seriously. Most kids just feel like "Yeah, that college is expensive!" And it's like, "argh you guys are poor AND smart! Colleges LOVE that and will throw money at you!" It's amazing how much misinformation is the way of the world.</p>
<p>I think my school would be like:
1. No college (around 50% if you include the dropouts)
2. Community College (10%)
3. CSU (20%)
4. UC (15%)
5. Private (3-5%, if that)</p>
<p>Most kids have no idea where Brown is, or Rhode Island for that matter. Even most people don't understand the ACT scoring scale here!</p>
<p>Man I can't wait til the summer program apps start rolling out. All you CA applicants, do flaunt it if/when you get in!!</p>
<p>Most kids at my school end up going to colleges in North Carolina that you've probably never heard of (ECU,Appalachian, UNCC, UNCW, NCState, UNC Chapel Hill if you're smart). I just couldn't stand to go to a college with half my grade. My school actually has a really good reputation of sending kids to college, but unfortunately that means everyone in my grade is super cut throat competitive. It's awful, my friend told me she would be angry with me if I got into her top school and she didn't. That's why I want to go to Brown, because I hear it really doesn't have the cut throat aspect. </p>
<p>My teacher told me today that he thought Brown was too "preppy." Do you guys get that impression, because I don't. Maybe Yale (not knocking Yale), but I feel like Brown is more down to earth.</p>
<p>My school pressures kids into at least going to CC so they can have the 100% matriculation rate on their brochures. We range from kids who go to Santa Barbara CC on the beach (where the parties are aplenty) and those who go to, say, Stanford. I am allllmost done with the UC application. Anyone else ELC here?</p>
<p>Thanks, Obstinate. It always cheers me up to know I'm not a junior. Not that being a junior was terrible or anything. I just had to take so many standardized tests.</p>
<p>Rosarita: Brown, IMO, is definitely not preppy. There are all sorts of people bringing a lot of diversity (one thing I really love about it!). </p>
<p>I'd probably say Princeton or maybe even Yale would be one of the preppiest. Of course, I've never been to either, I'm just going off of what I've seen and what others have said.</p>
<p>I think all ivys have the stereotype of being preppy to some extent, but I don't think Brown fits into that stereotype very much. </p>
<p>And I am also on ELC hollyert! It definitely keeps me from panicking that I'll be rejected everywhere haha. I should really finish my UC apps though...</p>
<p>I've always heard that Brown was a hippie school... never a preppy place.</p>
<p>That's what I always thought, I just wanted to check with you guys to see if I was crazy or something. I've always valued the diversity of Brown over other colleges.</p>
<p>all you people from socal....how are you guys doing with the wildfire and all? are you all ok?</p>
<p>Wilfire, meh, there's always one going on; I almost never register them unless I have a friend nearby. The big one receiving all the attention is so famous because it's in Montecito, an immensely wealthy coastal residential area south of Santa Barbara (an immensely wealthy coastal city), and holds the large, glamorous homes of some of CA's most famous. Just a few years ago, the hills around Montecito and residential areas southward down the coast had landslide issues during a storm. People who chose to build there ignored that it's on a steep hillside, the other side of which is treeless, arid fields. So I don't think anyone in CA is surprised that this fire is so out of control. This is also a damn hot weekend (after a relatively chilly week), which sucks even more for the firefighters.</p>