<p>think. ask good questions. work on good answers. work. make friends. be ambitious. carpe diem. </p>
<p>I honestly don’t think about the SAT now. it’s so freaking irrelevant. seriously. I have to take the GREs and MCATs and I have the greatest disdain for that sort of thing, though they will probably save me when it comes to grad school admissions.</p>
<p>choose a project that you love. get a nice advisor. (if you study chemistry – dean harmannnn.) don’t fall into the cookie cutter. break boundaries.</p>
<p>also I don’t know what your taste in girls is like, but people – including a patient/subject for a clinical trial I was working for – have told me on several occasions that the guys here absolutely blessed. I mean if Asians are your thing, you have it good. Smart, talented, beautiful and artsy girls from Wuhan, gregarious and absolutely immaculately toned yet sociopolitically ambitious Filipinos, Koreans that are not to be underestimated in beauty and brains… maybe blondes are your thing, though I’ve only dated one and it’s harder to break them down demographically. And if your academic career doesn’t work out, you can be a lucky stay-at-home dad for some very empowered yet enlightened ladies.</p>
<p>(I’m joking, I’m joking.) </p>
<p>What I’m saying is, see your peers as a blessing yo. I mean I guess if you’re a premed you might want to go somewhere else, but otherwise, don’t be intimidated. If you’re ambitious, come to UVA, change our community :). If you’re not ambitious, don’t come to UVA. And I really have a hard time guessing people’s SAT scores – “so my group partner in Cronmiller’s genetics class, he must have gotten a 1870 cuz he …” </p>
<p>Except maybe for a certain subset of student athletes, who occasionally make questionable remarks. (Overheard by my friend in a sociology class quite matter-of-factly: "So in high school, we were such jocks…and we were really popular…but here in UVA … it’s like a different world… we’re not [for some mysterious sociological reason].) But hey, that’s the price you pay for having free admission to NCAA games!</p>
<p>Hey, frenchcoldplay, some of us athletes are smart and at the top of our high school classes. I got into some fine institutions on my ACADEMIC merits. I am fortunate that I am also an excellent athlete and will participate in college, but my athletics were not a part of my admission. .</p>
<p>I think you have it wrong… Asians have the hardest time getting into college since there are so many Asian applicants. In order from hardest to get in to easiest by race, I think I’ve read on these forums that it’s (Asian ≥ White )> URM. I could be wrong, but that’s generally what I’ve seen on these forums and college acceptances.</p>
<p>No advantages for Asian or White.</p>
<p>So you could tell your ‘friends’ that they’re wrong, but I wouldn’t talk to them altogether if they act like that.</p>