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<li>That the ‘holistic’ admissions practices that drive everyone to high school madness are the only ways to get an interesting class. That’s why Oxford and Cambridge (who admit solely on academic grounds) are full of such boring nobodies.</li>
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<p>Holistic admissions means everyone has a good chance at getting in, and you should just apply to see what happens.</p>
<p>Hardly anyone has a personality, so showing signs of a personality in your essays or interviews will work in your favor a lot. </p>
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<li>College admins are amazing indeed. While being need-blind, they still know how to meet full-need. Is this why my need wasn’t fully met because they didn’t even see it in the first place?</li>
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<p>Only on CC: will you see someone write that except for HYP, the ivy league schools are really not very good.</p>
<p>Here is another one:</p>
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<li> “Middle class but will not receive financial aid [at private schools with good financial aid].”</li>
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<li>Your chance of being admitted to a college is equal to the admission rate of that school, just like everyone else’s.</li>
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<li>there are only two possible SAT scores, 800 and not 800.</li>
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<li>I’m not so weird after all.</li>
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<p>That was one of the reasons my D stopped reading “chance” threads. Her comment, “Never take advice about probabilities from people who don’t understand how statistics work.” </p>
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<li><p>GPA and Stats sums up the entire application package for students applying to colleges…including elite private universities and LACs.</p></li>
<li><p>If someone with lower GPA/Stats gets admitted to a given elite college or university, that person “took my place”.</p></li>
<li><p>Prestige of college is determined by elite-y points gained from driving down acceptance rates as close to absolute zero as possible. </p></li>
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<li><p>A chance thread is the politically correct way to brag about your stats, awards and titles.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m the only one who doesn’t know how to assess the strength of my LORs.</p></li>
<li><p>Nobody has a shot at Perfect U unless his/her stats are above 75% of the admitted students.</p></li>
<li><p>My chance of getting into Perfect U will increase exponentially after taking a gap year.</p></li>
<li><p>The only errors in the USNWR rankings are the placement of Brown and Cornell.</p></li>
<li><p>“Ivy League” is a cut above “CC Top Universities”.</p></li>
<li><p>If I get rejected by a school, I need to post in the result thread that I didn’t want to go there anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>My school should have used a 6.0 grading scale.</p></li>
<li><p>ORM is the politically correct term for Asian.</p></li>
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<li>Acceptances at Vanderbilt, UVA, UNC, Swarthmore etc. are worthless if you are turned down by all the real "top"universities.</li>
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<p>/\ Or that that it means you have been “shut out”.</p>
<p>^^Venting? </p>
<p>No one changes their major in college. What you decide on at 17 is exactly what you’ll be studying when you’re 22, which is exactly what you’ll be doing when you’re 35. </p>
<p>To add to this, you must search for a college which essentially offers your intended career as a major (institutes at universities are a myth). For instance, if you want to work in public health, only a major in public health will do. It’s not as if the top MPH programs take students from all disciplines including environmental geology, virology, statistics, sociology, etc. </p>
<p>If you’re not in an honors program which guarantees undergraduate research, you’ll have an extremely hard time finding a project to work on. Note that this applies equally to both teaching oriented directional state schools and major research universities whose R&D expenditures exceed $500,000,000/ yr.</p>
<p>If a school is known for attracting a particular type of student and you don’t quite fit that mold, you shouldn’t even look at the college. For instance all 7,000 students at Emory are socially liberal, fiscally conservative pre-professionals who cannot stomach the thought of reading Southern literature or participating in a sustainability project. </p>
<p>Thanks for my morning laugh! 
Some of these are really funny.</p>
<p>On the flip side of the Ivy-love, that rankings are totally meaningless and everywhere is what you make it, so you really didn’t lose out by not going to the places that rejected you. Curiously, this doesn’t apply to places lower ranked than where you go. Sort of like George Carlin’s remark that on the highway, everyone going faster than you is a maniac, and everyone going slower than you is an idiot.</p>
<p>Professors are all either incomprehensible research obsessives who barely know that students exist, or really love to develop one-on-one relationships with undergraduates and give them an amazing education, to the detriment of their own research. There is no middle ground.</p>
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<li>If you haven’t discovered a galaxy or founded an orphanage by tenth grade, a directional school for you!</li>
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<li>I just wanted to post on your college thread that I got accepted into your dream major at your dream college but it’s like not really my dream college for me (or my kid) and I’ll probably turn it down but I’ll wait a long time to make my decision since I have like 20 way better colleges I’m waiting on, but don’t you worry - wherever you end up will be just right for you!!! (perky smile attached here…)</li>
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<p>Thanks guys - love this thread. SO glad I don’t have to apply for college these days…</p>
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<li> When I receive an acceptance, I need to immediately report to CC the name of the college, the exact merit/finaid amount and breakdown, acceptance to any honors or special programs, admissions results of all other schools, my family income, my state of residence, my high school type and national rank, my resume in its entirety, and give a detailed defense as to why I was accepted. Hope I didn’t forget anything.</li>
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