<p>I've been holding in a grammatically-correct, properly capitalized rant for quite some time, but I believe it is now appropriate to rage against the machine... pun intended.</p>
<p>-We (as the members of this fine web site) have this really terrible, terrible habit of automatically dismissing all Asian applicants as over-represented minorities. Even the 4.0 GPA, 2400 SAT kids whose parents happened to come from Taiwan get thrown into what I call the "nice job, kid, but you're screwed," pile. Anyone ever happen to realize that Asians make up around 20% of Harvard's undergraduate pool? They're getting in, and I'm pretty sure the fact that their geographical origin is farther east than most of ours isn't keeping them from attending fantastic colleges. Putting down kids who worked their asses off because of their race is downright ridiculous.</p>
<p>-STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT 3.8 and 3.9 GPA'S. Yes, I'm aware you got four or five B's--how terrible. Every year, high school students get into fantastic colleges with 3.3, 3.4, or (how TERRIBLE!) 3.2 averages. Acknowledge the fact that yes, pal, you did quite well in high school, and suck it up. A few B's never hurt anybody.</p>
<p>-I will admit to participating in this mindsuck, but the "What Are My Chances" forum has become out of control. The only ways to appropriately judge one's chances of admittance to a school are to consult the university's official statistics and class profile; check one's high school's Naviance Family Connection web site to see what other students at a school were admitted with what true, unbiased, REAL statistics; and meditate. A lot. None of you--besides AdCom representatives, former or current--can give any sort of "chancing" besides your best guess. It's a potentially damaging system, and it needs to stop.</p>
<p>I'll most likely think of more things to complain about in a bit, so feel free to drop your comments, questions, and (more than likely) complaints here. I'll be here all night, folks.</p>
<p>Wow this is probably my favorite topic EVER on CC. i’m asian and i also think it is unfair that asians are at disadvantage for college admissions. I mean it is not our fault that a lot of people of my race is smart -_-</p>
<p>The OP brings up a valid point… Dragons too often attack castles and burn them to the ground resulting in many good knights and serfs to lose their homes and be forced to roam the land with no money. If they have no money they cannot buy things so other businesses lose money and thus have to fire workers, resulting in a maddening cycle of people losing jobs and having less money to spend. So we really need to eliminate the problem at its source, we need to go into the caves and request that the dragons either assimilate to our customs or be forced out of their caves. This way the knights and peasants can live happily in their castles and not have to worry about building anti-dragon weaponry or training dragon slayers… everybody wins</p>
<p>AMEN
to the people with 3.8 + stop complaining part anyway
When I came on CC I was like okay…I’m NOT applying to harvard and I really want to go to temple…</p>
<p>I have a 3.2 W, 1710 SAT
I feel like i’m a leper on here or something but I’ve still gotten into good colleges! and hopefully will be getting into more</p>
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<li>What’s with the focus on investment banking!? Sure, IBankers make bank. But at the same time, half of them kill themselves–exaggerating, of course, but you get the idea–it’s a ridiculously stressful life, and they have no time to enjoy any of that $$$. Think of other ways to use your intelligence to help the world, not go into an 80-hour workweek “career.”</li>
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<p>Adding: Freshmen who come on here and complain that college isn’t what they thought it’d be after “an entire semester” and write huge walls of text about how they’re not popular, how they’re not getting 4.0’s, how they have no friends, etc…</p>
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