<p>Some people learn of it themselves, maybe others get referred by friends/family.</p>
<p>Personally, I came upon CC by random chance. Since I was and still am paranoid about college admissions, I was searching up any website that could accurately analyze my chances of college admissions.</p>
<p>So, I just clicked on the sites that I thought could do it for me on Google, one by one, until I ran into CC. Well, I didn't buy the acceptance chance thingy, but what caught my attention was the forum, so... that's how I came upon it.</p>
<p>Anyone else have an interesting story as to how they got onto CC?</p>
<p>I got my PSAT score is January but didn't know what it meant in the context of the NMS competition. I thought I had a good shot at advancing, and a google search led me to a CC thread discussing cutoff scores.</p>
<p>My high school's counseling website was crap, so I was looking at another high school's counseling site (a much better school in the same city), and it had a link to CC, and voila! Little did I know how addicting it was... :eek:</p>
<p>I was on my vacation when I landed here on CC. My father told me to start "researching" on colleges. Being lazy and wanting to have fun, I didn't want to do research. I was being sarcastic, so I typed in "college" at google.com, which led me to a CC website. Since that day, I was (and still am) addicted to it. Who knows that one little thing can change your life? Before I saw CCer's amazing stats, I wanted to go to a regular public university near my home and my family. I didn't care whether or not it is a good school. Then, I got new insights into what I wanted to do after high school- I became determined to go to an elite university- H, S, P, Y. Why not? I never thought that I would applied to any top colleges when I entered a high school until CC.</p>
<p>i don't remember...I honestly can't remember. Granted, it was 5 years ago, but I remember I was searching for something and college confidential popped up. Don't remember what I was searching for though :confused:</p>
<p>I was looking for the dates when the AP scores were mail out, and boom.</p>
<p>Now I'm the most college-savvy kid in my school. I know about as much as the new college counselor (formerly my English teacher) - she just started the job this year.</p>
<p>I think I was either looking for AP book recommendations or I wanted to know the caffeine content of certain drinks. Either way, I remember those were two of the first threads I ever read. Both of them are classic CC which I find really funny.</p>
<p>I was acutally looking for tips or anything that could help me with AP classes. I ended up googling a lot of different phrases trying to get a good result and somehow ended up here. ^.^</p>