<p>I think I’m disadvantaged because all of my attempts to stand out are a little in vain. I live in the wash dc metropolitan area so the competition is insane, so i applied for and went to the IB Program at a diff HS. but as a result my gpa is 3.86 and not a 4.0.
my sat score of 2320 is about average for the IB graduating class… okay i’m exaggerating slightly. It’s true though that its hard to stand out academically because everyone cares just as much about producing impressive apps. On the flip side, there is not much time for impressive extracurriculars on the side because the workload is much more than it would be at my home HS in the honors/ap program.
not a rant. i mean, i got likelied for cornell, it worked out for me with the college admissions at least to a certain extent. but i dont really like the argument for admitting “promising” students who havent proven that they can handle as much as the ib kids who slave away for four years… but I see the point that you can’t rob someone of further opportunities because they didnt have them in HS to begin with.
I’m just annoyed that living where I do, I can’t just be a bright kid, I almost have to be a sleep-deprived neurotic kid if I want to stand a chance at top schools.
being on an admissions committee must be difficult…</p>