<p>Only at CC will you find...</p>
<p>Harvard wanna-be's asking to retake a 2350.</p>
<p>.. 9th graders with 5 APs “freaking out” and asking if they’re on the right track for ivy league schools</p>
<p>…the same thread posted five-hundred times. :P</p>
<p>…people with near-perfect SAT/ACT, ridiculous amounts of EC, 5’s on every AP exam and 800’s on every SAT II, well..you get the idea</p>
<p>…high schoolers talking about summer internships</p>
<p>Borrowed from a CC facebook group (can you imagine, there actually is one! Or 5 of them! hhahaa)</p>
<p>Are you a high school senior with college woes? Do you find yourself asking questions like, “what are my chances?” and “HYPS, are they really hype?” Do you suffer from a constant lack of self-confidence everytime you read someone’s post asking about chances for State School University with 1560 SAT, 35 ACT, ECs like whoa!, and a butt-load of hooks? Do you find yourself easily distracted by the thought of someone responding to your own posts? Do you wanna stab a cyber-knife through all the people who post their ED results by saying…“X-University Class of 2011!!!”? Do you get easily aggrevated when someone bumps? or reposts? or is downright mean? If you answered YES to any of these questions, this is the place for you…a place where tomorrows are not decided today </p>
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<p>A group for all people who are somehow addicted to the College Confidential message board.
- You know more about admissions than the advisors at your school
- You have time read all the posts of the TASP forum despite your million ec’s and 7 AP, ( 2 self study)
- You are concerened with your 750 SAT Math
- You have posted a chances thread or commented on someone else’s changes
- You’ve been in at least one debate on affirmative action
- You start using terms such as “superscoring” and “CR” in everyday conversation, and your friends don’t understand you.
7: You’re the only person unimpressed with the “stats” of your school valedictorian - after all - you know people with far better “stats”
8: You’re a sophomore and you took more APs than any senior in your school did (certainly my case)
9: Your school’s “number of different AP exams/year” has a major statistical anomaly in the year that you were a junior - since you effectively doubled the number of different AP exams taken by students at your school that year due to your AP self-study
10: You bring an AP prep book to school - an AP you’re self-studying for in class - and the teacher tells you to put it away - You think an A is different than an A+
- You think that any school ranked lower than 25 is going to be filled with social outcasts and mentally deficient individuals.
- You refer to yourself by your CC username in real life.
14.) When someone gets a 2390 on the SAT, instead of saying “wow, that’s an amazing score,” you say “so what, I know someone w/a 2400.”
15.) You think the first 3 letters of the alphabet should be changed from “ABC” to “HYP.”
16.) You are no longer impressed by an 800 on just one section. - You check the “New Posts” icon along with the local traffic and weather.
- (posted by snoopyiscool) You know me!
- After spending hours on the SAT test you rush back home to compare answers
- Your good book is the " blue book"
- You know what “bump” means
- You post all ur college decisions the day u get them
23: People ask you for advice on applying to programs/colleges that you got rejected from
24: your pick-up line is “I self-studied 4 APs in 10th grade”
25: you turn in an assignment under your CC name
26: you qualify for the USNCO national exam, get all of the multiple choice answers right, but can’t get into training camp because you get a 0 on the labs due to no lab experience
27: you’re a liberal on everything but public education
28: you print out one of the decision threads on the Caltech/MIT forums and give it to others in your school to read
29: you make a chances thread for one of your classmates
30: you print out a chances thread for your guidance counsoler to read
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=149495[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=149495</a> - You become addicted to CC, then claim to quit for awhile in order to cure yourself, but are back on CC the next day.
- you talk down to your guidance counselor when discussing your applications.
- You bypass your guidance counselor entirely when discussing college.
- you are completely confident about your application except for the parts your guidance counselor has to fill out.
- whenever ANYONE at your school talks about college, youre embarassed for them, because they have NO idea what theyre talking about.</p>
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<li>You understand that its not just HYPSC etc and then all the rest. That getting into Rice, even though no one at your school has heard of it, is amazing. and whe nyou get accepted into a BA/MD program at Rice it is more impressive then getting into Cornell. But no one believes you. (Not my case, but it would be)</li>
<li>You hate affirmative action…oh wait THATS EVERYONE.</li>
<li><p>when you love to say ‘you have a slight chance’, gotta build up some hooks!</p></li>
<li><p>when ur no of post gets stagnant, even though u r constantly posting in a particular thread at CC forever!!!</p></li>
<li><p>When sarcasm is your preferred mode of communication.</p></li>
<li><p>you are well versed in the hatred of the ‘60 second rule’
42) You have more friends on CC than in real life.
43) You use CC to avoid doing actual work.
44) The amount of time you spend on CC makes you scared to try drugs.
45) You’re an extremely attractive female, but have never been on a date due to eight hours a day of studying, 364 days a year.
46) You use phrases like “extremely attractive female” in place of “hot chick.”
47) You wonder why it’s 364 days a year you were studying for 8 hours a day, and not 365.
48) You divide your love interests into reaches, matches, and safeties.
49) you post a link to this thread on facebook</p></li>
<li><p>You argue vehemently against affirmative action, but you make threads about whether or not to specify you are Vietnamese, Laotian, and [Ack!] caucasian.
51) You won’t let your friends use your computer because you’re scared they’ll see you’ve been on CC and peg you as a total loser.
52) You start a thread on whether it should be HYP or HPY
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=341339[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...d.php?t=341339</a>
53) You use your own personal rubric when responding to chances threads
54) you say “10char” after short sentences in daily conversations.
55) u use most of these ones quite frequently!
(long list of CC smilies that don’t show up on facebook).</p></li>
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<p>@ fa-la-la-la…</p>
<p>can you post a link to that group?
Thanks :]</p>
<p>^so what does “10char” mean anyways?</p>
<p>On CC, each post has to be atleast 10 characters long. That’s why people add 10 char at the end of posts to lengthen it.</p>
<p>he he .</p>
<p>l o l .</p>
<p>a :)</p>
<p>only at CC do you get worried so much about colleges it eventually screws you over.</p>
<p>Actually, CC has helped me calm down considerably and stop worrying about the college process. Maybe it’s because my family is a group of immigrants and I’ve basically taught myself everything I know about college admissions, but I actually really appreciate this site.</p>
<p>But so many of those Facebook group things are true! A good friend of mine got her SAT scores back the other day and was really happy to raise her score almost 200 points…to 2140, and I wasn’t that impressed.</p>
<p>/<em>You know what this used to do</em>/</p>
<p>At CC… a countdown to decisions thread gets 20K+ views in 5 hours</p>
<p>Here’s the facebook group link to all the interesting CC characterizations.</p>
<p>[Login</a> | Facebook](<a href=“Facebook”>Facebook)</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the largest CC facebook group. </p>
<p>posts dramatically increased on march 31st (or whenever major colleges release decisions)</p>
<p>I must say CC can become a drug.
If you have the rights stats it can become your ecstasy
If you’re stats suck it can be the ramifications of over-doing cocaine.</p>
<p>…Only at CC do you interpret the pros & cons of joining</p>
<p>only at CC do you post the exact same thread for at least the 27th time…</p>