<p>^good thing none of this will matter later in life. Did you really think that being the captain of the football team meant that “you will be set for life because you went to Princeton”? Good thing the world isn’t THAT unfair.</p>
<p>That’s not what I mean, though… I’m saying that I want to do things to experience the world and see where I fit. I might have better confidence in saying that I want to be an engineer (for example) if I have been to science fairs, internships, and that sort of thing.</p>
<p>I know this is not much of a vent, but more of my worries.</p>
<p>Even though I met my counselor back in November, she has not turned any of her school forms in. 
Especially, cause I am applying to one school EDII. This is getting me worried in whether it will affect me or not to a large degree.
It’ll be fine, it’ll be fine Dx</p>
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<p>And this is why they should consider SES instead of race. Race and SES don’t always produce the same impact, and SES produces a far more relevant impact on the components of a college application.</p>
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<p>No. It measures how well you take the SAT. It’s supposed to measure aptitude, but it does an awful job at it.</p>
<p>Yeah, the only thing the SAT measures is how well you can study for the SAT.</p>
<p>or how much your parents can pay for you to get a good tutor for it</p>
<p>Or how much grade inflation/deflation your school has and how well you actually know the stuff you learned in school</p>
<p>I hate that I’m the biggest procrastinator and sent all my apps in on December 31st. And now I won’t hear back until april when half of my school has been accepted ED somewhere or has heard back from EA schools and are choosing between 2 or 3 now and I’m just here like…</p>
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<p>Huh? The stuff you learn in high school is usually not even applicable to the SAT. Even the SAT doesn’t claim to test your knowledge…</p>
<p>I hate how in middle school, 3 people of my race cheated, and so 3 of my other race friends think I’m a cheater also (because I’m the same race as the cheaters), no matter how hard I try to convince them I’m not a cheater.</p>
<p>I hate that so many people who don’t get into top colleges moan about their “Super-competitive high school” and “grade inflation”.</p>
<p>I hate it when people complain about their spot being taken at a “top college” by an under-represented minority. </p>
<p>I hate it when whites and Asians (I’m a white male, by the way) say they were rejected “because” of their race, gender, or something like that.</p>
<p>I hate it when people explain away bad GPAs by saying “my family wasn’t supportive and didn’t give me calculus answers like EVERYONE ELSE’S PARENTS”. Conversely, I hate it when people hate on those who genuinely haven’t had the opportunities others have (summer programs at Harvard, for instance, or a personal trainer that helped them become a great athlete), or who didn’t have a good adviser early in high school or before that.</p>
<p>I hate it when people ***** about “dumb jocks” getting into good colleges even though their “academic stats” are seemingly inferior (and this is coming from a musician who wasn’t ever a star athlete).</p>
<p>Finally, I really hate few elements of this site: The obsessed parents who only come here to do some more vicarious living through their prodigious (or marginally above-average) children and fail to contribute anything of value (I recognize that these folks are a minority, and that there are a lot of parents here who a vital members of the CC community); the chance threads full of righteous morons who do nothing but blow smoke in others’ faces, white “Oh, you look golden for Harvard, I’m sure you’ll make it!” or black “Only a 2280 on the SAT? Good luck not getting laughed out of Cornell!”; and people like myself in this post who espouse negativity on what should be an informative, enthusiastic site filled with trepidation, yes, but also excitement, interspersed with devastation, shock, consolation, bewilderment, and joy.</p>
<p>All this, and I’ve a year yet to apply to college.</p>