<p>Maybe it's just me...but I'm seeing a LOT of statuses on Facebook saying things like "OMG, got my official acceptance letter from ASU!" or "OMG, accepted to NAU! I'm so blessed!" (and the status would often contain a picture of their acceptance letter) </p>
<p>For reference, NAU and ASU are Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University, two of the colleges that almost all graduating students of my school go to. They have extremely high acceptance rates, and you can easily get accepted if you just meet minimum GPA/test score qualifications. But people act as though it's a surprise that they got accepted to those schools. </p>
<p>Has this happened to you, and if so, does it bother you? It's starting to bother me. >.< I guess I should just be happy for them... :P</p>
<p>I don’t see why it would bother somehow at all. After all, you just got accepted to college. Isn’t that something to celebrate about? You can’t imagine how happy I was when I got my first college acceptance, even though the school had something like a 80% acceptance rate.</p>
<p>I think you guys are misunderstanding what’s bothering me.</p>
<p>It doesn’t bother me that they’re celebrating their acceptances; it’s bothering me that they don’t seem to know that they WILL be accepted. I have been asked by people whether they will get accepted to these schools, and that makes it clear to me that they haven’t done even a little bit of research into these schools. There are minimum qualifications that they should already know about. And these people have been in my AP classes as well, so they shouldn’t have been questioning it at all.</p>
<p>Note that the title is “People should really learn a thing or two about college admissions.” not “Stupid people shouldn’t be happy.” Sorry if it came off as self-centered.</p>
<p>On the same note, a national merit semi-finalist was FREAKING OUT about whether he would become a finalist. When I told him that nearly all semi-finalists become finalists, he was extremely surprised. He clearly hadn’t done any research, and that bothered me.</p>
<p>Even after trying to save yourself, you still sound like a jackass. Those people are probably just happy they got into college even if they have high acceptance rates. BTW, if a school has an 80% acceptance rate, 20% get denied, which is actually a relatively significant number (I know on CC we all go for those <20% get accepted schools, but put yourself in the shoes of an average student for a second).</p>
<p>I’m always very happy for my friends who get admitted and no, it’s not because they don’t know anything about college admissions because they definitely just GOT INTO COLLEGE but maybe they didn’t have high self-esteem, supportive parents, etc.</p>
<p>I’m sorry not everyone in the world strives for Harvard like you OP.</p>
<p>No, you don’t sound like a j’ass to me. Just need to view it the other way around: the whole admin process is so incomprehensible that any win is a win.<br>
Honestly, I fret more about the dumb questions on CC: what’s the last date to register for SATs? Does college X have supp questions? Ie, the things that can be checked on the web in, what, 20 seconds-?</p>
<p>^^ The 20% that were not accepted obviously didn’t meet the required qualifications, and that’s something that they, too, should know. And I’m actually not even applying to Harvard, so maybe you should reconsider who you call a jackass.</p>
<p>^ Thanks. I agree; questions like those, which can be answered in a few clicks, worry me too.</p>
<p>I know what you mean InvisibleMonster. I’m not hating. But if it were you, would you post it a happy message on FB or tell your family and friends? Or would you sit down and mumble to yourself?</p>
<p>I know I’ll probably get accepted to more than half of my schools. “If” I get those acceptance letters I’ll also probably post it on FB. Facebook is casual. Come-on. People post pictures of them partying, drinking, eating, everything. It’s nothing to get serious about.</p>
<p>Ohhhh my godddddd I hate when people do that!!! This girl I work with was like “Omg I just got accepted to Iowa State! It is a really hard school to get into!” I was like haha hate to break it to you but…no…pretty easy actually…</p>
<p>Ahh, my school is pretty lame tbh. Just about everyone goes to Texas State, Tarleton, or some UT-branch campus, and the top 10%ers end up in Austin. What bothers me is when people get all excited about getting into schools they don’t even care about. One of my friends got accepted to Baylor (fb post) then got a $20K scholarship (worthy of another status update) yet is STILL firmly committed to Tech. It makes me wonder whether the point of all that is…</p>
<p>Yes, but would you be surprised? Probably not, considering that I assume you know enough about those schools to basically predict whether you will be accepted (granted they have minimum qualifcations that you know you meet)</p>
<p>Ah, like today, a girl posted her acceptance letter to Grand Canyon University and said “OMG, accepted! God answered my prayers”…GCU is a for-profit school that has a 100% acceptance rate…I don’t think she realizes that.</p>
<p>Guys, I know InvisibleMonster personally, and he is definitely NOT a jack@$$ as some of you have claimed. I’m quite surprised that some of you can have high CR scores on the SAT and then read his post and miss the ENTIRE point of it. He was essentially saying that people should do more research about the schools they apply to. Think of it as a rant. He wasn’t saying that people who perform at a lower level academically should not have the right to celebrate their acceptances as some of you have suggested; he was saying that they should have known they would get into the schools and not act all shocked about it. There’s a big difference.</p>
<p>It’s probably more excitement than shock. Heck, it’s a college acceptance regardless of where it is from. That person has been accepted into college! who cares if its asu or a community college, it’s a college acceptance! Let them celebrate</p>
<p>@ Jozhekryx: Well, care to explain your reasoning? Of course you can disagree with me, but I’m curious why. The point of this post seemed pretty obvious.</p>
haha.</p>