<p>no, not on that. prior comment. no one vacations in haiti. though i'd like to meet the person who does.</p>
<p>lol, the ballerina was made up . . .
Read this thread
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=134832%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=134832</a></p>
<p>I'm new on here, but I've seen the STATS....They make me feel, for a lack of a better word, like ****. Not even the top students at my school do all of the things that are described on this board. I know it is the internet, where you can be whoever you want to be, but why lie? I know that most of the STATS on here are bloated, but it still gives a person a sinking feeling in their soul and heart to think that they will not make it, because some 17 year old who won the Nobel Prize beat them to it.</p>
<p>Students with shining stats do not always get into top schools, especially ivies. For this reason, there is anxiety even from those with nearly perfect stats. I know someone that had a 1600 on the old sat, a 4.0 unweighted gpa, took the hardest classes at my competitive high school, was heavily involved in ec's, that was rejected from harvard and princeton.</p>
<p>I can't believe I remember the girl who did the blind kids in Bangladesh thing, but I do. Application-fluffing is horribly annoying-- I don't think swing dancing is going to get me into college, but I do it every week anyways. I think our generation has far too much pressure on it to attend the "name brand" colleges. Sometimes it seems like it doesn't matter how well you do in college, it's the name that's going to get you the job.</p>