<p>All super-selective schools are members of the IVY league (alternatively, are IVYS).</p>
<p>The only people who truly understand the current state of college admissions are those who are going through it now AND who have been rejected from their top choices. Parents (especially those who’ve been through this before) don’t know anything.</p>
<p>I stole this from another poster on another thread, but I think it belongs here, too:
116. Missing out on Harvard or Yale will damn someone to a life of ditch digging.
Thanks @psalcal</p>
<p>Well I found this on another thread, stated with absolute certainty: “I’m taking 5 APs and 2 honors classes, and getting A+s in every AP class with minimal effort. Enviro, stats, and calc are considered quite easy”.
This type of statements is very common on CC (along the sense that “I am the yardstick by which every other student is measured”)
So students taking advice here would think, well, APs are easy, it’s easy to get A’s in them, and I can pile them up without any risk to my GPA nor insane homework loads.</p>
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<li> For some reason, the LACs that get regularly mentioned are expensive private ones. Somehow, the public ones at <a href=“http://www.coplac.org”>http://www.coplac.org</a> get ignored, despite some of them having relatively low prices even for out-of-state students.</li>
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<p>@ucbalumnus I never saw that list before. I did know about SOSU (Southern Oregon State University) and hoped my kid would like it… unfortunately she had a terrible tour and info session. Too bad… I love the town too though probably too small for her. </p>
<p>119.If your math teacher is horrible and does not teach you anything, it is actually your fault. Everyone knows that with Kahn academy and other free internet resources every teanager can teach himself so there is absolutely no excuse. Young teenagers can and should be completely in charge of their learning. Besides “teaching” is spoon feeding. You should show up in school only to impress others and demonstrate how independent and self directed you are. </p>
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<li><p>I will insult over 98% of the adults on this site by stating my life is ruined since I didn’t get into an Ivy League but I am still asking for sympathy having to go to “REGULAR” college or university. </p></li>
<li><p>That scoring a perfect score on the SAT or ACT is a very common.</p></li>
<li><p>Taking a SAT to improve the last 10-30 points for that perfect score will be the edge to get into an Ivy and not be seen as a negative even if I take the test over 10 times.</p></li>
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<li>Parents invest a great deal of their self worth into their kids getting into an elite college, and drive those kids to sleep-deprivation forcing them into activities, then complain how busy they are.</li>
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<li>Among the top 10% students, half have ADD, ADHD, ASD or other forms of learning disability. The rest are involved with various forms of drama/theater production.</li>
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<li>There are no average people. Everyone is either a high-flying success, or a complete loser. There are no perfectly content loan officers at your local bank, probably because they didn’t go to Princeton.</li>
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<li> I’m only an excellent essay away from the Ivies. </li>
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<li>If you’re looking for an intellectual environment the only real choices are UChicago, Reed, St. John’s, and maybe Swarthmore. As soon as you try to talk to students at Vanderbilt or Emory about anything related to academics, a group of frat guys will tie you to a chair and force you to funnel mass quantities of Natty Light. </li>
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<li>Re: 127. You’re either an intellectual or not by the time you turn 16. There is NO chance to change after that, EVER!</li>
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<li>The world is divided into two camps: One that denies that URMs can be accepted with lower qualifications than that of rejected non-URMs, and one that claims that accepted URMs can never get in purely on merit. Never the twain shall meet.</li>
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<li>I must be looking at the wrong bell-shaped curve.</li>
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<p>131.An A student who works hard does not have “natural talent.”</p>
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<li><p>Students from affluent families who score above a 2250 on the SAT are lucky that their families could pay for those scores.</p></li>
<li><p>Anyone can raise their SAT score to 2250 or higher if they can buy tutoring.</p></li>
<li><p>Any student who got a math SAT in the top 5% might have been successful in STEM at any school, whether state school or elite university.</p></li>
<li><p>Any student who can get through a STEM major could have been a stand-out in upper-level humanities or performing arts classes.</p></li>
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<li>Somehow the Dunning-Kruger effect doesn’t apply to STEM kids thinking they are brilliant at the humanities based on one intro class.</li>
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<li> A gap year (doing something other than mundane high school graduate work or enlisted military service for several gap years) is the most commonly suggested solution to disappointing college admissions results.</li>
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<li>Doing such a gap year the way Europeans and Australians do it (6 months working mundane job, then 6 months backpacking around Asia) is completely unacceptable here. Far better to go through an overpriced ‘study abroad’ outfit in college.</li>
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<li>The plural of Ivy is Ivy’s, and anyone who does not agree with me is a fool…a fool, I say!</li>
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