<p>Right? I hate seeing topics that such as “2390 SAT valedictorian here…what are my chances for low ivies?” I think my favorite one (actually made laugh out loud) was a topic that said “Got a 770 on SAT Physics, should I abandon all hope for top schools?” </p>
<p>However the kickers is that people actually go into those topic and tell these people top schools are still reaches. I understand being cautiously optimistic, but seriously if these kids don’t get in who will?</p>
<p>That kind of leads me to another topic, I don’t see how some people are able to manage so many activities in high school while still getting perfect grades. I’ve worked incredibly hard the past few years to get great grades and all my other free time has been taken up by just a few ECs. I don’t see how people can manage to be president of 5 clubs and volunteer 400 hours and then also play a varsity sport and have a perfect GPA. Are they superhuman?</p>
<p>has anyone ever seen the movie An Education? </p>
<p>You should watch that and then listen to her rant in the middle about the seemingly pointless nature of education. That is exactly how I am feeling lately.</p>
<p>As Jenny says, “Studying is hard and boring. Teaching is hard and boring. So, what you’re telling me is to be bored, and then bored, and finally bored again, but this time for the rest of my life? This whole stupid country is bored! There’s no life in it, or color, or fun!”</p>
<p>also…I hate how CC is addicting, and yet I literally want to punch like half the people on here either for being perfect kids with perfect stats and being worried about college, or for being the older kids or adults even who cater to those kids, by generalizing all of us and telling kids that just because they do not have 2200+ SAT’s, a national championship, 3 national awards, 12 leadership positions, wealthy parents who sent them to expensive summer programs at harvard, and a valedictorian status with a 4.8 GPA from an elite private school they must not be competitive. unless of course they are a URM. In which case HOLD THE PHONES. they MUST get in. It’s BS. all of it. and if that list is all it really takes to look great to schools…then F those schools.</p>
<p>I hate that school and college is just about getting.into college NOT the educational learning like it once was. now it just matters when u teach a class that u teach to a test so people get good grades and get into college, not so they learn. also college shouldn’t be about the name. it should be that you go to college to educated . your whole life also shouldn’t be determined by how hard your immature 14/15/16 year old brain was or how you acted as a early teen.</p>
<p>I agree. What ****es me off the most about those kinds of threads are the parents who come on there and say, “Well, don’t get your hopes up for Brown since you only have a 2330.” Complete BS! I believe everyone has a shot at every college, just some are more competitive than others. My SAT scores aren’t the best but I know they won’t make or break me. That’s another thing: some parents (and sometimes there are those kids who have already ready gotten into their Ivy League schools who feel the need to pop back on here and brag) make it seem like SAT scores are the end of the world. Not the case. I’m more than a number, I’m a person.</p>
<p>I hate cutoff points between A’s and a B’s.
I hate how much effort people put into grades and get grades they deserve.
I hate how non-deserving cheaters can get the same grades as the hard-workers.
I hate how lazy I am.
I hate how much I hate.</p>
<p>I hate feeling like I’ve done all I can physically do and I’ll still be rejected from my top schools.
I hate that people at my school who are applying to top schools take advantage of our honor code for their own personal gain.
I hate thinking that my background (white, upper-middle class, suburbs) is detrimental to my chances.
I hate that my grade is so competitive. Over 10% of us are applying to Harvard SCEA. I’m not one of them, but I didn’t need to hear about the status of everyone else’s apps, thank you very much.
I hate that some of my classmates are so good at inflating their apps with extracurriculars but making them sound like actual passions rather than the resum</p>
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<li><p>I hate that my science teacher sucked, and I fed around freshman year, and that might be a deciding factor for colleges when they see my GPA.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate how my rank is so low, and people who took stupid classes such as art and PE are ranked way higher than I am. And how there are about 8 people with 4.0s and they’ve either taken one AP class, or have never taken one at all.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that when I tell people of some of the top schools that I’m applying to people automatically assume that if I get in, it’ll be because I’m black.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate the fact that because I’m black, colleges might give me an advantage over someone who might be more qualified. I would like to get in because of the fact that I’m good enough to.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that despite the previous, I’m banking on the fact that I am black to get me into college.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that I have to take subject tests, and I totally bombed them.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate all of the time and money that I’ve spent on taking and retaking and studying for the SAT/ACT, and all I have to show for it is a decent score.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate the fact that my parents think they know what to do, and push me to do this and that, when in fact that don’t know st.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate the fact that I know, that I’ll probably be rejected from my top school.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate my AP Calculus class because it sucks, and it’s messing up my GPA</p></li>
<li><p>I hate my AP Lit teacher because she’s fing with my grades because she’s racist and dislikes me. And it’s super disappointing because english is my favorite class, and I’m not learning anything.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that so many people are applying to top schools, and the chances of me getting in aren’t very high.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that the girl who’s ranked number 1 and is super qualified is applying to my dream school and she’ll probably get in early, while the best I can up for is deferred. </p></li>
<li><p>I hate people who pretend that they can’t get into top schools but when you ask for their stats they have 2000+ SATs and 3.9+ scores.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate everyone all CC because they have near perfect schools and are bing about not getting into college when we all know that they’ll get into their top choices. </p></li>
<li><p>I hate those really good students who have really s*ty essays. I mean really? You’d think that that 4.0 would actually mean something.</p></li>
<li><p>Something that I vaguely dislike are the college interviews. I’ve already had one, and while I thought that it went pretty well, I wish that they had more weight. If colleges are going to go on and talk about how they want there students to be more well rounded and people like, than you’d think that they’d be more important. I also wish that they had an extra component to them. For example, have the interviewer see the student in their own element and how they interact in it. Like a swimmer at/getting ready for a swim meet. Or someone on the school newspaper getting an issue ready for print. Because I’m a people person, but where I really excel is in groups, because you can tell that I’m a leader (sorry if it seems like I’m bragging!). But if an interviewer/college admissions person could see that, and not only just read about it in your essay, I feel as if applying would make you more meaningful to the school.</p></li>
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<p>yeah, this whole thing was fun in the beginning, you know? like the whole filling out the forms and stuff, but than it was as if everything like classes and senior project stuff just hit at the same time, and it’s all become more stressful now than anything ):</p>
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<li><p>I hate the fact that although I worked hard to get my SAT score, I still might not get into my top schools. Too much competition.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate the fact that the CSS profile asks you to pay -__- I mean c’mon CB take a hint I’m applying for financial aid!!! a.k.a I need help with college fees! I don’t think i should be paying to apply for financial aid that I might not even get if i don’t get into the school. I’m an international and $16 for each of my schools ain’t cheap on top of the $10.50 for SAT scores.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate the fact that I’m probably addicted to CC and yet I can’t stand some of the people on here: </p></li>
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<p>"Show me the bridge to jump from cuz I’m not getting into [insert ivy here]</p>
<p>SAT:2400
GPA: UW 4.0
SAT II: 800 Bio, Chem, Phys & French and 790 USH (I could just die)
6APS: scored 5s on all of them</p>
<p><em>you’d be surprised to know how real this is -_-</em></p>
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<li><p>i hate retake threads where persons ask if they should retake a 2300+ -__- Are you flipping kidding me. </p></li>
<li><p>I hate people who apply to a college just to see if they’d get but have no intention of going. Really that’s just being selfish.</p></li>
<li><p>I hate that a 2000+ SAT score isn’t as rare as it was in 2006. I mean if you got a score like that back then, you’d be set, but now 2000+ are getting more common. Don’t get me wrong I’m not hating on people who do well its just that people are getting smarter but colleges are still getting more selective. Soon enough we’ll end up like India where some colleges have acceptance rates of 2%</p></li>
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<li><p>i hate that i didn’t study my ass off during my freshmen and sophomore years. i attended a public school where studying was nonexistent to get an A. so, for the first two years at my prep school, it was hard to change my study habits.</p></li>
<li><p>i hate that some of my friends say that their dream school is school X, but have no affiliation (legacy) and never even visited school X. the problem is, school X is also my dream school. i have legacy and have spent days at school X so i actually like the school for its atmosphere. my friends only like school X because it’s located in california so they could “smoke weed and get high every day”. dude. you could smoke weed at any school you go to. </p></li>
<li><p>i hate that my friends who only want to get in to school X so they could “smoke all day” will actually get in. and i, a person who actually loves the school for other reasons, might not.</p></li>
<li><p>i hate feeling the pressure of my sister (now a freshman at college). she is the perfect child. 3.8-3.9/4.0 UW GPA. 35 ACT. 800 Math 1, 800 Math 2, 800 Chem, 800 Physics</p></li>
<li><p>i hate that my best friend will get into a better school than i will simply because of AA. he has a lower GPA than me, lower SAT/ACT scores, absolutely zero EC’s. i hate the possibility that he will get into a school because he’s low income and black.</p></li>
<li><p>i hate that i just wrote #5. i feel like a bad friend. i hope he gets into a good school, i really do. but AA really sucks. </p></li>
<li><p>i hate people who say AA doesn’t exist. it does.</p></li>
<li><p>i hate that i’m getting cold feet. i applied to a school ED, but i am now unsure if the school is a right fit for me.</p></li>
<li><p>like the posters above me, i hate the people on CC who are like “i’m scared i won’t get into school X. i have a 2400 SAT, 4.0 UW, scored 5 on multiple AP’s, taking all AP classes, president of student body, tri-varsity athlete, legacy, excellent essays, no financial aid.”
***** ****, you’ll get in.</p></li>
<li><p>i hate waiting for college decisions. </p></li>
<li><p>i hate how my mom doesn’t understand how stressed i am. she didn’t even do her college application, her sister did. </p></li>
<li><p>i hate the pressure to get into a good college. i have five older cousins. the schools they attended? Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern.
i am no where close to a top 20 school.</p></li>
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<p>I hate how when decisions came back for some schools today, literally every single kid in my grade who heard back got either accepted or deffered (out of around 16 kids. I kid you not; no rejections at all). So tomorrow when I get rejected, I will officially be the first rejected kid of the year. Though I’m thinking about making it my status so other kids in my school don’t think they are alone in being rejected. Because (and this is another thing I hate), people act all hush-hush about rejections, which make you feel ashamed if you get one. Honestly, people, every single person will go through some sort of rejection in life. You won’t get into every college and nail every job interview and always score the boy/girl. So it’s okay to embrace rejection when it happens. It happens to the best of us.</p>