<p>For compliments.
It's annoying. </p>
<p>How would you deal with someone like this?</p>
<p>I know many of these people. I just reaffirm them that their grades are fine. Then, I stop responding to the “fishing” because I’m sure they are aware that their grades are superior to most everyone else; they are just looking for a response.</p>
<p>I see it on here all the time. </p>
<p>“I got a 4 on the AP Biology exam, I’m a failure. Will colleges accept me??”
“A 34 ACT, I did bad with the science, will any one accepted me!?!?”
“I just got my report card today, and I was so shocked with my grade in Calculus III… I got a B.”</p>
<p>I just ignore them, or tell them to get over themselves, and you’re lucky because many students will kill to have the grade you had.</p>
<p>Whenever I hear statements like that, I roll my eyes. I think it’s become an unconscious habit from being on this site.</p>
<p>i would tell them to turn their head joint ninety degrees upwards to the sky. and i would tell them to just look. and take it in. and say whatever came to their mind. (note: this works best on clear nights and in dark enough places where the human lights don’t obscure the stars). </p>
<p>then i would instruct their head joint to move back down to be level with the earth once again. if they still insisted their good grades were not good enough i would terminate out friendship right there on the spot. and we would walk our separate ways. in the darkness. alone. swish. swish.</p>
<p>i have never tested that though since i’ve never had close friends who did that, where i knew them to the point where that behavior irritated me.</p>
<p>alexissss, you pretty much wrapped up CC in a sentence…</p>
<p>If they’re obviously doing it to fish for compliments/make you feel bad, you tell them that Harvard turns away literally thousands of 4.0 GPA + 2400 SAT kids (you can also show them some of the CC rejects for good measure) and would never deign themselves to accept an inferior being the likes of a 3.9 GPA + 2350 SAT. Then you hand them a brochure for Cornell (because such people are probably the type to deride it as the “lower Ivy”, however undeserved and stupid the phrase) and wish them luck getting a job in McDonalds after graduating from such a “lowly” institution.</p>
<p>On CC it’s ridiculous. </p>
<p>People here have stellar potential and state they aren’t good enough. </p>
<p>I complain at times, but I have a reason. Lol</p>
<p>@pm </p>
<p>Really? I’d be honored to get into Cornell. The nerve. Wow.</p>
<p>I just want to tell them that yes, you don’t have a chance and if the Ivies reject you it’s because you’re stupid.</p>
<p>Have fun at Community College.
Tired of handing out reassurances that aren’t needed.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen this in the real world, but for some reason here in CC Cornell is often depicted as the “■■■■■■■■” child of the Ivy League. Generic example: “Accepted by Cornell, rejected by (insert other Ivy), MY LIFE IS RUINED!”. My guess is that a lot of this behavior has to do with Cornell’s so-called high acceptance rate, a factor that apparently is perceived by some as a proxy for educational quality. Well, I guess they’ll gawk at the nerve of employers who hire Cornell grads over their “superior” pedigrees (if it wasn’t obvious before this is all sarcasm).</p>
<p>Eye-rolling ensues and I don’t usually give people the satisfaction of meaningless ego-inflating comments.</p>
<p>If one of my friends does it, I roll my eyes and i’m like, “Please! You know you’re smart. 
/topic change /conversation”</p>
<p>Yeah. I’ll just ignore them. </p>
<p>@penguin
My insides. Dear god.</p>
<p>I’m not going to lie. I have chastised myself for getting a grade lower than I would usually get. My grades are generally in the 90s. I have an A average. I can’t speak for others, but when I get mad at getting an 88, it’s because I know I can do better. I know I can be better than that. I’m not looking for compliments. I like to push myself to be better. Not better than others- nothing like that. Just a better version of myself, you know? My friends get annoyed with me sometimes, because of my complaints, but it’s just how I feel. My parents’ whole doctrine is don’t just pass, excel. I have been raised in that mentality, so anything under a 90 is like failing in my eyes. I just hate looking like such a d-bag (I know I do) because of my perfectionist state of mind.</p>
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<p>You can, because most people here are like that. At least you admit it, which not a lot of people do. So kudos to you.</p>
<p>Ahhh, I can relate.</p>
<p>This is why I stopped sharing grades with many of my friends except for the ones who are smarter than me. Everyone else sours and sees me as a braggart. Which I’m not. My friends who surpass me in intellect comprehend my disgust at many of my grades. Others do not.
I, too, have been raised in such an environment. To me, overachieving isn’t going above and beyond, it’s simply achieving. Mother has always admonished that I work to avoid mediocrity. Even at a school ranked #1/#2 in my state, many of the students are lazy and adverse to obtaining good grades. I’m seen as a nerd for what I do when I’m not even truly intellectual. </p>
<p>This thread is directed at those who know they’re smart. Yet they still act as though they’re dunces. It’s a twisted way of bragging.
Heck, I know many who truly are not intelligent but are thought as such by lying about grades. Pathetic.</p>
<p>Many chance me threads contain people who supposedly freak out about being rejected from a top tier school though they have 2400s/4.0s.
Fishing for all the things.</p>
<p>MODERATOR’S NOTE
As this thread has devolved into chastising other peoples’ posts on CC (even though not naming a specific poster), it is now closed.</p>
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