<p>Before CC: 2100 (800, 690, 610)
After CC: 2320 (800, 800, 720)</p>
<p>It made me push myself harder, for sure</p>
<p>Actually…a lot more people are aware of the existence of College Confidential. That means its not as exclusive as it it was 5~ years ago when people had no idea what it was. When I searched for colleges 5 years ago, collegeconfidential barely showed up on Yahoo! or Google searches.
Now its the first thing that comes up.</p>
<p>The quality of the average CCer will go down, I’ve even noticed it! Even the number of chance threads are going down.</p>
<p>Soo…I guess its really a matter of time before CC goes to the dump.</p>
<p>Oh yes. I was very disappointed this last night when I found out I got a 790 on my SAT II USH test. However, after pondering throughout the day, I have come to my senses and realize that it is a very good score. I’m just so used to being on CC where so many people get straight 800’s!</p>
<p>Since the grades on here are so high, I don’t even bother to read those score results threads. I get scores that are great for my situation and my desired schools, but it is a bit deflating to see all of those high scores. </p>
<p>I’m sure that some of those are exaggerated. You know those that I’m talking about- “I just read the review the night before, and I got an easy 5. They should make a 6 to describe my mad skills” type posts. </p>
<p>However, since some of those are probably true, I don’t even bother. I know that my scores are good, so I don’t need someone to tell me that with scores like mine, I would be lucky to go to community college or something.</p>
<p>That is the CC effect on some of the not-so-top students.</p>
<p>I think CC has made me care less about test scores, having showed me what can become of people who care too much about scoring high and outperforming academic competitors.</p>