<p>^^(Sorry for the messed up title.)</p>
<p>I am personally glad that I am done with the college process. Throughout the process I feel I have shamelessly groveled, pathetically boasted, and done so many more things that I cannot think of at the moment. Here are a couple of highlights:</p>
<li><p>Contacted a prof and introduced myself with hopes that we’d become great pals and they’d help me out in the admissions process (yeah, right)</p></li>
<li><p>Urged one of my friends not to apply to the top college of my choice so my chances would not be limited (again, didn’t work)</p></li>
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<p>I’m sure I’m not the only one, so perhaps you would like to share what you would never like to repeat again (until, say, trying to find a job, haha).</p>
<p>No, i am pretty sure you are the only one.</p>
<p>lol, ouch d1. Here are some dumb things that I did because of the darn college admissions process. Please note that I'm not exactly proud of these :) and that I'm truly not such a bad person!</p>
<p>1) Applied to Pomona mainly because my friend goes there, her mom is a pretentious biotch and by attempting to get in tried to show that I wasn't as stupid as she thought. It ended up that I really liked the school... but I didn't ultimately get in anyways (wait-listed). I was mainly filled with regret that I wasn't able to throw my acceptance in her face :D</p>
<p>2) Laughed at everyone evilly who chose to stay in-state (70% of my senior class). "I'd die if I stayed in-state."-to 5 friends who were staying in-state</p>
<p>3) Sent off extremely angry, disgruntled emails to a college because they wouldn't count my 2 art classes for a year as part of the 1 year art requirement (the classes had to be "a full year course in 1 subject") even though I was in the top 5% of all their applicants</p>
<p>4) Felt superior to friends because I had the highest test scores. At least I restrained myself and did not boast. But then they got into Northwestern, Columbia, Macalester, and Johns Hopkins and I (who did not apply to such places, but instead got rejected or wait-listed at the 3 very selective non-ivy schools I applied to) did not.</p>
<p>Yay fa-la-la-lena! The school I convinced my friend not to apply to was Pomona, haha. It's funny how things turn out.</p>
<p>And d1, you sound bitter. :P I'm sure you have plenty to share. C'mon, all the cool kids are doing it!! <em>peerpressurepeerpressure</em></p>
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<li> After my safety school wouldn't stop with sending me forms & etc., I sent a nasty voicemail on their message machine about how I will not be going there and I will be going somewhere WAY better. </li>
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<p>I haven't gotten a single letter since. :)</p>
<p>oh come on people! I can't believe there aren't more stories out there! Too shy to admit something? It doesn't have to be a scandal at all, just any action that you did that was less than good at least partly for the sake of the college admissions process!</p>
<p>Hmmm I just thought it'd be fun to share some of the desperate things we did. I personally think it's funny that I did what I did, now that I look back at it all. Perhaps the Class of 09 or 10 can learn from our actions.</p>
<p>i was just kidding.</p>
<p>^^That I assumed to be the case. It's fine.</p>
<p>"Perhaps the Class of 09 or 10 can learn from our actions."</p>
<p>Ha, yeah right, what would life be like if we didn't screw with each other in pointless ways beyond imagination?</p>
<p>i have the worst one....
okay i'm a junior mind you so i guess that makes this even worse. i basically intentionally said some really negative stuff to my college counselor (but in context it sounded normal) about my friend (but i hate him bc he's an athlete and is gonna go to the school i want to go to and basically got the idea to go there from me), but my college counselor thought it was really funny so maybe he didnt really care but i still hope he paid attention to it a little. JUDGE ME
oh and another one. i'm not sure if i did this on purpose, or if i actually wanted to but i totally picked classes that were geared towards a struggling major at my dream school....hence maybe increasing my admission chances. but i actually don't mind those classes and SOME i like. but still the intentions or partial intentions are pretty bad.</p>
<p>I'm not gonna lie... I worked that Katrina card - but at least I didn't do it in that typical 'pity me!' sort of way.</p>
<p>Other than that- I had no desire to sabotage anyone. Some of this stuff is crazy.</p>
<p>^ The Katrina card, I am gonna' use that one!...(I live in VA)</p>
<p>I applied to the school I'm attending two months after the application was due. ;)</p>
<p>With an essay on the wrong topic.</p>
<p>wesweswesplz, you're kind of evil</p>
<p>^^I don't think it's evil. I'm sure we've all done some trash talking about another person when getting caught in the moment, and then regret it later.</p>
<p>I have once heard of people calling the admissions office to leave anonymous tips about their fellow students. That I think is a little low, but with desperate times come desperate measures.</p>
<p>catsushi... I dont know what your standards of 'evil' are, but I think that's pretty sadistic (what weswesplz did), though I give my props to weswesplz for actually admitting it, since confessing this (even in an internet forum) takes bravery and a degree of remorse</p>
<p>Well, this happened to me:</p>
<p>My so called friends decided to apply to Northwestern just to show that anything I could do they could do. What a waste of 65 dollars. They weren't really interested in going (and thought it was annoying that I LOVE that school), they just wanted to sabotage my chances and to rub it in my face.</p>
<p>But luckily they were both rejected , and I was ACCEPTED! They haven't mentioned it since.</p>
<p>MUHAHAHA who's laughing now?</p>
<p>^^You mean they wanted to show that anything you could do they could do? Yes, that sounds very catty. Congrats on being accepted, though. :]</p>