<p>Well, no you aren't exactly interesting yourself. ;)</p>
<p>Besides, how are you supposed to determine if someone is interesting on not by how they talk on a forum? It's not like every interestimg person has to be witty, be a comedian, or own someone in a debate.</p>
<p>I never said I was interesting.....but the stats etc. along with laundry ECs don't prove too great.
ANNOUNCEMENT: I hereby testify that I AM BORING.</p>
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He had incredible essays and really connected with the interviewer. The admissions officer wrote back and told him she found his passion and dedication to his activities outstanding. I didn't mean to get everyone's hopes up...lol, just an example.
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<p>What kind of activities? just curious...</p>
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A laundry list of EC's hardly reflects a person's real attitude. There are people who seem extremely well rounded on their apps but are in fact very dull.</p>
<p>Besides high school, he went to a really selective and demanding art school, which helped him win a ton of awards in oil painting. He also started up his own business selling his paintings. I think he even managed to get spots in many art galleries in San Francisco. Finally, he sent in an art portfolio to Princeton...I guess all this stuff could be considered his "hook"--he had many other activities that balanced out the application.</p>
<p>maybe ill be one of these people? but my stats arent this low. 2150 sat/ top 2% of class / urm / connections</p>
<p>What kind of stuff do you think pton focus on besides gpa and SATs? Obviously you dont have to be einstein to have the grades to get in..but if you have 2 thousand students all with exceptional sats and gpa and essays and all that good stuff, what kind of activities do you think catches attention moreso then others?</p>
<p>btw im new but i am LOVING these forums</p>
<p>I have a daughter who is a junior. By graduation, she will have 7 APs and the rest mostly been pre-APs. She dosen't think she is so out standing as far as the courseload goes. You really think you beat the pants off most of the applicants?</p>
<p>^was that directed to me?</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't understand that comment either...</p>
<p>I think what catches the attention of adcoms at schools like Harvard and Princeton is a qualified applicant who will add some diversity to the campus.
The sorts of applicants with great stats, whose lives have been missions of collecting ECs to put on their apps, do not help these schools to create the environment they want. The outstanding Pton lacrosse team, for instance, adds an entirely different dimension to the campus. I am not saying you need to be a world class athlete to be noticed-I think it helps to be appear to be a little less from the mold of the average person on this forum. I mean this in the most constructive way.</p>
<p>Interesting..... I'd say I am interesting.</p>
<p>I know several martial arts
I invest in the stock market (not meryll lynch.......)
I won 1st in district in the team chem UIL competition (I had no partner)
I once tried to see if my "c" theory worked and placed 6th in UIL math
1st in state for photoshop contest
1st in school for animation contest =P
I'm an excellent pole dancer (40mph speed limit sign on a busy intersection)
I've found ways to upset pizza chains... I ordered Domino's while at Pizza Hut =P
I was told off by a crack whore in San Francisco (NYLF Tech forum)
My MIT interviewer stole oranges from my grove haha
I made my Pton interviewer happy because he liked talking to me, and he cancelled the next interview and gave me an extra hour</p>
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<p>I think this was directed to me.</p>
<p>I said I'd have 5 AP and 7 IB by end of graduation. 4 of those IB classes are two year so if you want you can think of it as a total of 16 AP classes by senior year. Also, IB is a harder than AP so I'd say that my courseload does stand its own.</p>
<p>Will princeton take a high ACT score (33, 99th percentile) over a not-so hot SAT (1960, 87 percentile)?</p>
<p>i thought this was a low stats thread...</p>
<p>Prior to entering h.s., I already had taken 7 high school courses (all honors) and I will graduate with 14 IB courses + 1 AP course. Add to that working part-time jobs (the same 3 over 4 years) and commuting almost an hour a day. Plus I've attended summer school every summer since 8th grade (not because I had to, but because I wanted to).</p>
<p>I DON'T think that I stand out. I think ^^ is normal for applicants applying to selective schools.</p>
<p>Your correct worldshopper.....your average when it comes to Princeton (no offense).</p>
<p>IB courses are harder than AP courses? Says who?</p>
<p>I think this is like saying SAT is tougher than ACT, completely basesless.</p>
<p>insecure101: No offense taken, you are absolutely correct!</p>
<p>IvyHopefulDad: IB (meaning full IB diploma) is harder than merely taking AP courses. I am standing by that one. Course to course -- I cannot say which is harder but IB is more comprehensive.</p>
<p>It's hard to argue that. </p>
<p>I can't think of an IB course that is tougher than its AP equivalent.</p>
<p>AP and IB are different is all I'm going to say...no comparison in terms of difficulty.</p>