<p>This thread is so quiet today...I feel like everyone has a lot of work. I know I do, but I have terrible senioritis, ughhh.</p>
<p>I have SO much work... I had sort of a revelation and realized that I'd be much happier if I'd just do my frickin' work this year til second semester.</p>
<p>So bye for now, probably. You know I love you!</p>
<p>Will someone please call up Yale and tell them to let me in? Thanks.</p>
<p>:-P</p>
<p>Just can't help but join the discussion here...</p>
<p>So today I was in my school's guidance department, and the staff was just casually talking about where people were applying to. I realized that my school is going to have a lot of applicants to tops schools this year, which is a HUGE departure from regular years where everyone just wants to go to a state school.</p>
<p>Same for me. Students usually apply to just state schools, but this year's senior class is amazing. I think the top 30 or so are applying to some top school, though not necessarily an Ivy.</p>
<p>For Yale, the address I see is:</p>
<p>38 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
( Welcome</a> to Yale College, Office of Undergraduate Admissions )</p>
<p>Is this where I send in all my stuff?</p>
<p>Well it looks like us 2008ers are just too darn smart :)
Actually, that's bad.. More competition. :(</p>
<p>Hah. Yeah, everyone seems so great.</p>
<p>I am currently competing for an early spot with about 30 of my classmates... in a grade with 250 kids :-/ Many of whom I'm in classes with and they're all super smart.</p>
<p>For the first time, I'm sort of wishing I didn't go to such a good school. I know that sounds awful.</p>
<p>Really? I think only one other person is applying to Yale at my school. Hardly anyone ever goes to top schools. We've had two go to Harvard, one to Stanford, and I think that's it.</p>
<p>I say this with despair--</p>
<p>16 to yale last year, 23 or 27 to Penn. </p>
<p>Yikes.</p>
<p>It's reeeeallly hard to stand out with classmates like that.</p>
<p>Wow. Everyone makes a big deal about it here because it happens rarely. Only like one kid in each class ever goes somewhere that's a top school and sometimes it's not even an ivy.</p>
<p>fringey...being from LA I think I know the school you're talking about. I wouldn't want to be at such a competitive high school, but look on the bright side: at least they get a lot of people in.</p>
<p>I wouldn't know that school. =/ Haven't lived in LA since I was a kid.</p>
<p>What school is it? harvard-westlake?</p>
<p>Yup... I do love that I have the opportunity to take so many great classes but thank god we don't rank or even a pretty good student like me wouldn't make the top 25%. </p>
<p>There's a lot of pressure because it's quite common to go to Ivies from H-W, so it's not given as much weight as it should. The matriculation list is ridic.</p>
<p>That school sounds awesome. I wish I could have gone there. Unfortunately, I was stuck in South Central Los Angeles in a school so crappy, they had to fence and lock you in.</p>
<p>That's really scary... I got very lucky. It's people like you who end up the strongest, though. Wherever I go to college will probably be a reality check in comparison with my sheltered campus.</p>
<p>It's South Central Los Angles, you have to be though. It used to be a lot worse than it is now. I visited USC and it looked a lot better than before. Of course, walking around Vermont Avenue at 3AM is still asking to get shot. The irony? Vermont Avenue is where my elementary school is. xD</p>