<p>isn't annoying when people get on here with insane ECs like deworming orphans in somalia and calculus 3 and a 4.0 and they play 7 instruments and speak 3 languages fluently and also managed a perfect score on the SAT and then ask if they are going to get into an ivy league?</p>
<p>yes, in a word. and you got the deworming orphans in somalia bit from legally blonde, didn't you?</p>
<p>haha yes but i've heard some crazy things like that</p>
<p>my personal favorite has been teaching karate techniques to blind children in bangladesh</p>
<p>I honestly think atleast 50% of the people on here lie or stretch the truth about a lot of their GPA's/SAT's/EC's.</p>
<p>i laughed at how ridiculous those children must have thought it was</p>
<p>dude blind children and karate do not mix</p>
<p>perhaps some do</p>
<p>yeah there was one girl on here who said at the age of 4 she was learning at the rate of a 4th grader so her parents homeschooled her and by the time she was in 9th grade she had already gotten 5's on six AP exams and taught french to orphans </p>
<p>whatever happened to the best time of our life?</p>
<p>yeah, miss i'm-a-ballerina-with-a-1600-and-an-IQ-of-240. she was out of control.</p>
<p>but memorable. i think it was totally made-up actually</p>
<p>Yeah, even if it gets me into harvard, I wouldn't sacrifice my childhood. (But since I drove her crazy, my mother might lol)</p>
<p>Ultimately, college is just another step in life.</p>
<p>What these people (some of them) are doing is application stuffing. For all that turkey, will they eventually succeed in the real world? Maybe.</p>
<p>this generation=insane? </p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>cats1127, I'm from bangladesh! =)</p>
<p>Nothing beats the girl a my school 4 years ago who flew to Haiti every weekend and tutored kids in math.</p>
<p>really? i tutor haitian kids every tuesday and thursday in room 2118. my school in south florida is half haitian; no need to go to the real country when they come to us.</p>
<p>that girl must have been pretty damn RICH!</p>
<p>oh and she probably went vacationing in Haiti for most of the weekend, teaching the kids for about an hour or so....</p>
<p>good excuse, eh?</p>
<p>i'm inclined to concur magnetique</p>