<p>Please understand me if the title offended you.</p>
<p>I am just so discouraged about my grades whenever i come to this website. Pretty much all the kids here have 4.0 gpa and high sat scores.</p>
<p>Is it that only smart people come to this website, or are all the kids planning to apply to competitive schools smart??</p>
<p>I am guessing smart kids who have desires to pursue education come to this website.. </p>
<p>anyway.. YOU GUYS ARE ALL SMART. U INTIMIDATE ME.. LOL</p>
<p>welcome to CC :) although not all of us are like you think.</p>
<p>ha.. thanks meadow.. i always have this strong feeling all these people are smarter than me..</p>
<p>sometimes i don't even wanna apply to colleges cause you guys are just so smart.</p>
<p>Here's the low-down:</p>
<p>The vast majority of high-schoolers are not nearly concerned enough with the college application process to go to a site like CC. Most of them won't apply to selective schools, and most won't freak out about their "chances."</p>
<p>THEREFORE, the vast majority of high schoolers are not present on CC.</p>
<p>INSTEAD, you find the minority: those who care, those who want to go to HYPS and consequently worry about the entire process.</p>
<p>Q.E.D.</p>
<p>wel.. hookem... although im an indivisual who truly cares about my college education, i am not talented like most of guys here..</p>
<p>but i do think you are right .. u got a good point.</p>
<p>by being on here, you proved that you care, and that's worth more than all the smarts in the world.</p>
<p>If you look on the college-specific forums on CC it's not quite so intimidating. I mean, not the Harvard forum or Princeton or those sort of places, but if you look at the discussion on the boards for less hyper-selective schools, you'll see lots of students who are smart and did a good job in high school and are ambitious and excited about college, but maybe they have like 3.4s and 1850s. And a lot of those schools they're looking at are GREAT places where they'll have a fantastic experience. :)</p>
<p>Look at my name! I'm friendly!</p>
<p>LOL!</p>
<p>I feel worthless here! At the same time, though, feeling intimidated actually makes me want to try harder!</p>
<p>Well I wouldn't feel bad. You should know most folks on here lie. I also wouldn't consider good grades the definition of being smart. There are many who are incredibly smart but don't get good grades for numerous reasons.</p>
<p>It's not even that... it's that this is such a small percentage of kids on the world who really want to go to an HYPS-type school. And just about all of those kids try SOOO hard to get straight As, be in every single club, do 250+ hours of community service, and get perfect scores. </p>
<p>Don't feel bad... grades don't mean everything and they never will. It's not always about how you do in college, it's about what you get out of it.</p>
<p>I agree about being intimidated!</p>
<p>Sometimes I'm so shocked about just how good these people can get that I get confused by those troll-chance-me-threads, because compared to the others, they actually seem vaguely possible.</p>
<p>I mean, every other day, someone completely perfect asks to be chanced. </p>
<p><em>Sigh</em> I know, it makes me wonder why I should bother applying to college, period. XD</p>
<p>But look up! Sure some of the CCers are smart, but really, I think it's all just hard work.</p>
<p>I'll stick with the cliche here and say that life isn't all about smartness, you won't get really far with that alone. I'm pretty sure you're "better" than 99% of the people here in many other areas.</p>
<p>Oh and, I'm not one of those "intelligent" people on here, take comfort in knowing that. (I come here for the lulz on HSL 20 min. a day pretty much).</p>