Relax

Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>seriously, all of you just need to take a deep breath.
college admissions, unless you've discovered a cure for cancer or saved an entire third world country, are a complete crap shoot.
the admissions officers get thousands of applications a year - that extracurricular really won't make a difference.
for all of you sophomores, STOP WORRYING. do what you love. it's not the end of the world if you don't get into your first choice college because you'll love wherever you end up.
plus, no one can really estimate admissions chances. you can get accepted into harvard and not into bunker hill community college.
its just the way it goes.
so please, all of you, calm down.
and this is coming from someone at harvard.</p>

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<p>Easy for you to say. You got in already.</p>

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<p>hehe, with a name like alreadyin, you're just asking for trouble</p>

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<p>yes, well thats my point.
i actually know what i'm talking about, instead of being a sophomore in high school attempting to tell you that you will or won't get it.
it's a crap shoot, honestly. stop worrying.</p>

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<p>actually, college admissions are not a crap shoot. they are unfair, but they are not a crap shoot. and alreadyin--could you cite the instance in which someone was admitted to "bunker hill community college" but not harvard?</p>

<p>also wrong--the idea that an extracurricular won't make a difference. do what you love if it's something interesting, but if it doesn't distinguish you at all, ditch it. </p>

<p>forget about relaxing...how about stopping with the innane posts? of course these high school seniors are stressed out. it's an incredibly stressful time. but you guys will get through it!</p>

<p>--also someone who already goes to harvard.</p>

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<p>So, basically you should do what you love, as long as it helps with college admissions?</p>

<p>What a great philosophy-we all know life begins and ends depending on college admissions...:/</p>

<p>Plus, the OP wasn't REALLY suggesting someone could get Harvard and not BHCC-it's called a hyperbole serving as an example.</p>

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<p>But I dunno what I love :(</p>

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<p>no, I just think the OP came off a little overly smarmy, and thank you, Mystic Merin, I understand the device "hyperbole"--likewise, I was employing the device called "sarcasm."</p>

<p>my point--if what you love is doing something marginal, don't expect adcom to snap you up.</p>