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<p>you know what S and D mean. Yes
-- you are disappointed when you get a 2300. No
-- you freak out about that one B you got in English. Yes
-- you’ve made a chances thread. Yes
-- you’ve posted in a game thread. yes
-- you’re adamant about taking six APs in your junior year because five is just not enough... No aps, but I guess 4 IB HL count, 4 being the max at my school
-- you’ve got one section of the SAT lopsided, so you panic and want to retake because that 700 is incompatible to the other two 770s. Yes
-- you’ve made a thread to ask (or posted an answer) if Choice A or Choice B is better in terms of classes, summer programs, colleges, etc. Yes
-- you’re a sophomore and you’ve got your college list laid out already. No
-- you own multiple prep books – and CollegeBoard is a must. Yes
-- first semester isn’t over and you’re already discussing about possible classes for next year. LOL YES!! music composition, here I come!!!
-- you’ve planned out your entire course plan for the rest of your high school career. I thought everyone did that...
-- you’ve applied for a summer program, an internship, and / or a scholarship. No...awwww
-- you’re definitely planning on going to a four-year college. YES
-- you’ve asked for help or provided advice on preparing the SAT / ACT / PSAT / AP. Yes
-- you’re considering an Ivy, Stanford, MIT –a prestigious college. Yes
-- you’re familiar with RSI, TASP, ISEF, Siemens Westinghouse, NIH, CTY, and the such. Yes
-- you know what these are: USABO, AIME, AMC, USNCO. Yes
-- you’ve self-studied (or planning on self-studying) for an AP course. No
-- you’ve held more than one office or leadership position. Yes
-- you are in at least one of these: athletics, Speech & Debate / Model UN / National Forensics League, community service / Key Club / Red Cross, or politics / student government. Yes</p>

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<ul>
<li>when u make it a ritual of visiting the CC forum (once a day, once a month, once a week, once every half-hour, etc)</li>
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<ul>
<li>you have "cc" as a keyword for your browser</li>
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<p>you know what S and D mean. Yes
-- you are disappointed when you get a 2300. No...got higher...:)
-- you freak out about that one B you got in English. No...never got one....sorry.
-- you’ve made a chances thread. yes, but under my old username
-- you’ve posted in a game thread. yes...yeah song titles!
-- you’re adamant about taking six APs in your junior year because five is just not enough... no aps till senior year
-- you’ve got one section of the SAT lopsided, so you panic and want to retake because that 700 is incompatible to the other two 770s. No retake
-- you’ve made a thread to ask (or posted an answer) if Choice A or Choice B is better in terms of classes, summer programs, colleges, etc. No
-- you’re a sophomore and you’ve got your college list laid out already. well...it was rough...
-- you own multiple prep books – and CollegeBoard is a must. yes. a lot.
-- first semester isn’t over and you’re already discussing about possible classes for next year. well, next semester is COLLEGE!
-- you’ve planned out your entire course plan for the rest of your high school career. i guess
-- you’ve applied for a summer program, an internship, and / or a scholarship. yup. all 3 i think,
-- you’re definitely planning on going to a four-year college. yup.
-- you’ve asked for help or provided advice on preparing the SAT / ACT / PSAT / AP. no.
-- you’re considering an Ivy, Stanford, MIT –a prestigious college. harvard 10.
-- you’re familiar with RSI, TASP, ISEF, Siemens Westinghouse, NIH, CTY, and the such. yup.<br>
-- you know what these are: USABO, AIME, AMC, USNCO. yup, never did any though.
-- you’ve self-studied (or planning on self-studying) for an AP course. nope.
-- you’ve held more than one office or leadership position. yeah
-- you are in at least one of these: athletics, Speech & Debate / Model UN / National Forensics League, community service / Key Club / Red Cross, or politics / student government. no. except athletics...see thats a joke...cuz im a klutz</p>

<p>well this survey might not indicate it, but im one hell of a ccer. you know youre a ccer when your inbox is flooded with 100000 cc emails every day. and when you check your threads constantly. and hide the window when anyone walks in the room.</p>

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<ul>
<li>you've been lurking around for quite a while before you finally decide to get a darn username to post that one question you've been wanting to know</li>
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<p>-you also know when you bump threads every 15 min.</p>

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<p>-- you know what S and D mean.
*Yes
-- you are disappointed when you get a 2300.
*Nah. I can't crack 2300 in the first place.
-- you freak out about that one B you got in English.
*YES
-- you’ve made a chances thread.
*Yes
-- you’ve posted in a game thread.
*Yes
-- you’re adamant about taking six APs in your junior year because five is just not enough.
*I'm taking 5, but it's still more than any other junior in my school :P
-- you’ve got one section of the SAT lopsided, so you panic and want to retake because that 700 is incompatible to the other two 770s.
*Yes
-- you’ve made a thread to ask (or posted an answer) if Choice A or Choice B is better in terms of classes, summer programs, colleges, etc.
*Nah, I learn from other threads :P
-- you’re a sophomore and you’ve got your college list laid out already.
*I had it since freshman year
-- you own multiple prep books – and CollegeBoard is a must.
*Duhhhhh
-- first semester isn’t over and you’re already discussing about possible classes for next year.
*I definitely planned my courses in like seventh grade haha
-- you’ve planned out your entire course plan for the rest of your high school career.
*For a while now...
-- you’ve applied for a summer program, an internship, and / or a scholarship.
*Multiple
-- you’re definitely planning on going to a four-year college.
*Well that's the norm at my high school anyway
-- you’ve asked for help or provided advice on preparing the SAT / ACT / PSAT / AP.
*Haha yeah
-- you’re considering an Ivy, Stanford, MIT –a prestigious college.
*Mmhm
-- you’re familiar with RSI, TASP, ISEF, Siemens Westinghouse, NIH, CTY, and the such.
*Yep yep
-- you know what these are: USABO, AIME, AMC, USNCO.
*Haha I've taken almost all those
-- you’ve self-studied (or planning on self-studying) for an AP course.
*5 in all :P
-- you’ve held more than one office or leadership position.
*Yeah... 4 right now
-- you are in at least one of these: athletics, Speech & Debate / Model UN / National Forensics League, community service / Key Club / Red Cross, or politics / student government.
*Almost all those</p>

<p>Nice one, kchen.</p>

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<p>Stole this from the old forum. The sad thing is I can identify with so many of them. :eek: </p>

<p>1) You've spent more time here than prepping for your four retakes of the SAT combined.
2) You finally get your first B because you were so busy bragging to us about your perfect 4.0 that you forgot to do the damn HW.
3) You know more about TheDad than your dad.
4) Adding 680+730 in your head now comes as naturally as adding 2+2.
5) You've spent more time perfecting your profile than your college application.
6) You wonder how Serene's doing at Harvard.
7) ...And send her a postcard.
8) ...Signed with your screen name.
9) You use the Academic Index Calculator more than your TI-89.
10) Maybe you really SHOULD have retaken that 770.
11) Someone's profile pic is now blown up on your desktop.
12) You have yet to discuss college choices with your guidance counselor because everyone here seems to know exactly where you will get in and be happiest.
13) You post your college acceptances here before you tell your parents.
14) You can't seem to remember your friends' birthdays but have down cold their SAT scores.
15) You've been stowed away in your room so long on this site your parents suspect you're really looking at porn.
16) You get annoyed when your friends don't know what HYP stands for.
17) What friends?
18) You think of Carolyn as "our modern messiah"
19) You know more about other people's children than your own.
20) Before you do anything, you always make sure you got a likely letter first.
21) You think you know more about the college admissions process than your college counselor him/herself.
22) You KNOW you know more about the college admissions process than your college counselor
23) You start having dreams about people on CC calling you "the modern messiah."
24) Your answer to any query is "stats?"
25) When you remember the everyone's favorite movie/song from last years "what's your favorite..." thread.
26) Twinkle's soap opera has become your favourite source of entertainment.
27) When your friends say "ug" you think they're referring to the University of Georgia
28) You post to this thread. L4m3|2.
29) You're explaining something you learned here, and say you heard it from one of your friends.
30) You can recognize posters by their writing styles..TheDad is short and to the point, SoozieVT writes 5 page essays, Xiggi uses LOTS of CAPITAL WORDS for EMPHASIS.<br>
31) When you trade phone numbers with this new girl, you include your SAT, SAT IIs and class rank.
32) You know dozens of other people's stats as well as your own.
33) You end up knowing half your classmates before you actually attend the college.
34) You are explaining the college admission process to your counselor.
35) You're familiar enough with the college admission process to write a paper on it and submit it to the "Journal of College Admission."
36) Said paper actually gets published.
37) You realize that the Amber Wang in "Gatekeepers" is the same person mentioned in "Admissions Confidential" by Rachel Toor. (found this out the other day lol)
38) Corollary to #30 - you see a long list of good but under-recognized schools and know that Carolyn is at it again.
39) Your inbox is filled with emails from fellow CC-ers.
40) You know exactly which colleges are and are not in the top 25 on US News.
41) Your requirements for a girl to date you include being able to balance redox reactions on the SAT II chemistry.
42) You know the NMSQT cutoffs, and not just for your own state.
43) You call for your daughter but instead of saying "daughter," you just say "D"
44) When you tell your friends a joke for the second time, you apologize by saying "Um, sorry... Double post!"
45) You can type your username and password in less than 0.5 seconds... and you almost think that your friends should refer to you by your username.
46) A is for Admission has become a pop culture reference amongst your friends (and fellow board members).
47) Forget a newspaper....you come here to see if Massdad has any updated information about the closing of I-95 in CT.
48) You see a poster's name and you know where they've applied.
49) You see a poster's name and say "Ooops! I owe him/her e-mail."
50) You find yourself worrying that Thebarnrat and Evil Robot will not be able to attend their dream schools, in spite of being accepted, because they don't have enough money.
51) Now, D and DD mean more to you than just bra sizes.
52) You realize that any SAT score below 1440 is something to be ashamed of.
53) You actually know what URM stands for
54) You can maneuver your back and forward buttons with lighting speed as a way to "refresh" a forum or thread
55) you know the notification dates for every top 50 school in the country - including the ones to which you didn't apply.
56) You post in topics such as this one. :p
57) You return to topics such as this one numerous times in short intervals to see if anyone has added anything new...
58) You judge people by the average of their SAT scores rather than by the content of their character.
59) You visit this site instead of X college's website to see if decisions are out.
60) You feel that your once great GPA/SAT score is now trash.
61) You've read more college essays than your AP English teacher has.
62) And your comments are WAY more insightful.
63) Your H.W. is solving problems posted on SAT/ACT and Tests preparation.
64) When someone tells u they are valecdictorian,1500+, (700+)x6 you say HYPMSC is a crapshoot (person feels dumb doesnt know what that means) you irritably explain they are a reach for everyone and you need something more (cancer cure, new groundbreaking theorems as shoo-ins or for a higher probability RSI, ROSS, USAMO, USAPHO, USABO, USACO, or USAXXXX...) to stand out of the applicant pool......
65) When someone told u that he completed linear algebra or qualified for RSI,ROSS,USAMO,USAPHO,USABO,USACO, or USAXXXX you unconsciously say "no surprise, do you know how many such people...”
66) When your friend tells that he took 6 APs, you tell him 10 is the mandatory requirement.
67) Your counselor loses her job because you are “the Supreme Counselor.”
68) You start recognizing schools that aren't in the top 25.
69) You think the whole world has applied to and will be attending a UC school next year.
70) You find yourself actually picking up the phone to call various admissions committees to berate them for waitlisting, deferring, or rejecting people you know on CC.
71) When you hear the term "lottery ticket" you automatically think of Harvard or Yale.
72) Yes, you cured cancer to help mankind, but you really wanted to beef up your application with something other than the Biology Olympiad.
73) You were so busy curing cancer that you couldn't play a sport, so it's still a crapshoot for Yale.
74) You have posted CEE's RSI website in response to the question "what is RSI?" more times than you can remember.
75) The only non-spam mail you get in your hotmail account is from CC.
76) When your classmates have a question about college admissions/financial aid/housing/computers/food/clothing/weather, they bypass the college counselors entirely to come and ask you. And, of course, you know the answers to all their questions.
77) You hope that when your D heads for college next fall she meets up with some of the great CC kids you've read about on this board, but hope she doesn't run into the few nasty posters who had to be banned by the mods.<br>
78) Your homepage is <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.collegeconfidential.com&lt;/a>
79) You memorized all the smilies
80) You know someone here who can write you a better recommendation than your guidance counselor can.
81) Think it's possible to major in College Admissions.
82) When you hear the word "Neo", you think of CC instead of the Matrix.
83) You spend idle minutes/hours checking each forum for updates to threads you've posted on.
84) You think normal people go about using terms like AA and URM, and you scowl at them when they respond with puzzled stares.
85) You know what HYPSCM stands for.
86) You can name the admission requirements and locations of schools you never even applied to.
87) You think of CC instead of Star Wars when you see/read "Obi-wan"
88) You check CC when you're in school to make sure you'll be updated by the time you arrive at home.
89) You keep coming back to the site, even after you get decisions from every single school you applied to.
90) You've read more about Affirmative Action on this site than you care to admit.
91) You spend more time <em>thinking</em> about how to improve your ECs than you do <em>doing</em> them.
92) You'd rather have a cute member of the opposite sex give you her/his stats than her/his phone number.
93) Northstarmom has become your personal admissions interviewer expert
94) You have memorized the curve for every SAT.
95) You use College Confidential as a reason to feel you'll never get into college and you should be depressed and sorry for yourself.
96) You think about controversial questions AS YOU ARE TAKING the SAT just so you can talk about them later.
97) You'd rather ask people <em>here</em> what they think about saying 'under God' in the pledge, instead of asking the kids and teachers in your own school.
98) You'd rather spend an hour hotly debating something with another poster instead of using the same amount of energy to write an essay/do math/read/do any kind of homework.
99) You've acquired a Ph.d in Senioritis.
100) You believe this site is the cure.</p>

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<p>101) You realize that you might actually <em>know</em> some of these people if you get to go to your first or second choice college.
102) You trust college advice of CC'ers over friends, family, and guidance counselors.
103) You check for messages on CC more often than you check for messages in your e-mail account.
104) The only household item you clean is the computer screen. The dishes and laundry can wait.
105) People from school ask "are you on that message board" because they somehow recognized you based on your posts.
106) You start recommending CC to others just starting the college process.
107) Instead of asking your calc teacher for help, you just post your question on CC.
108) You ask for advice on getting a prom date instead of actually going out and getting one.
109) You meet people you've met on CC and refer to them as "your friends" or "students who are applying to XXX school."
110) There's an entire section on your buddy list dedicated to CC kids.
111) And you IM each other incessantly freaking out about Yale.
112) You have to actively eliminate such acronyms as ECs and AI from your lexicon.
113) You've blown of reading "1984" for english class and instead opted to read "1000 reasons why we've spent way too much time on this website."
114) You are half-blind from staring at the computer monitor at 1:00 in the morning.
115) You answer every IM with Hi, and who are YOU on CC?
116) You are shocked when Xiggi does not use capitalization nor boldface in a post.
117) CC-ing should be its own verb.
118) You get all of your book, movie and exotic vacation advice from CC.
119) You admire Xiggi for being the SAT guru and being patient about it, and for knowing HOW to use boldface in a post.
120) Your mother yells at you for "picking fights about patriotism with 47 year-old women instead of finishing your debate homework."
121) When you stop noticing Ariesathena’s British spelling.
122) When you begin to think of yourself as 'one of the gang' on CC...
123) When you are upset to find a poster turns out to not be the sex you thought they were.
124) When TheDad knows more about your college apps and cares more where you get in than your dad.
125) When you start viewing a 4 on an AP exam as a failure.
126) You call your college counselor "Carolyn" and he doesn't know why...
127) You can't use CC as an abbreviation for Columbia College because you fear that people will think you applied to College Confidential.
128) You are known around your school as the official bearer of bad college news.
129) You mention to people in the "real world" that Winterfresh got into Hartwick and Catawba and Savedbythebell is thinking about SDSU and Subtrunks was waitlisted at U of R...and you are peeved when people don't know who you're talking about.
130) You cheer each time someone on CC gets good admissions news starts, scaring your dog.
131) You start having "empty nest syndrome" thinking about "your kids" on CC who will be going off to college next year.
132) You know that MassDad and MassMom are unrelated.
133) You really, really hope that the current CC kids will stick around to offer advice to next year's group.
134) Your D tells you that you need a 12-step program to wean yourself off CC.
135) You don't understand what people are talking about with AIM addiction. Away messages don't have a thing on this site.
136) You're afraid of something called WUSTL-WL.
137) You're not an MD but you can diagnose Tufts Syndrome.
138) You don't feel compassion for the "need blind.”
139) You know "safety school" is not something required by OSHA.
140) You wonder if some teenagers actually live in a parallel universe that travels around the sun every 30 hours.
141) Someone stops you in the grocery store to ask when Harvard's decisions come out (and you/your child didn't apply to Harvard).
142) You give an occasional shout-out to the moderators: Hi Obi-wan, Dove of Peace, and Sheeprun! You give an occasional shout-out to the moderators: Hi Obi-wan, Dove of Peace, and Sheeprun!
143) You aren't even applying to universities, but the stories of different people --who got in, who didn't-- excite you, and you check the board several times a day to find some interesting gossip.
144) You're not Asian, yet you know more about the problems of having strict Asian parents than some of your Asian friends do.
145) You make a semi-concerted effort to seek out other CCers in real life, particularly those who live less than half an hour away from you.
146) You get miffed when you see people flaming on the boards--how <em>dare</em> they try to destroy our atmosphere!
147) You get even more miffed if a moderator hasn't e-slapped them silly by the time you read the post.
148) You read the Med School forum even though you're a high school senior who has "physician" about 235th on their list of career choices.
149) Quickly rising on said list, however, is the position of Top 25 admissions officer.
150) You see an unlabeled fraction such as 6/395 and know exactly what it means.
151) you have read more stats/transcripts/college essays than any Adcom will read in his entire career.
152) You actually list “500+ hours of discussing with and advising kids about college admissions, the SAT, etc.” for volunteer work on your college app.
153) You wax nostalgic for those innocent by-gone days when you thought a 1400 SAT I would do what was needed for any school you (or your D/S) would apply for. Now you know better.
154) You wonder why all of those books say the Adcoms hate reading apps... you'd do it for free.
155) When someone types, "IMO" to mean, "In My Opinion," you think s/he's referring to International Mathematics Olympiad.
156) You check CC multiple times a day...multiple times an hour…
157) You've actually started a conversation with a school friend, "So, I was on CC last night and . . ."
158) You actually continue to check this site quite often even after you have been admitted to you number one choice college.
159) Whenever you hear a Northstar song you think of Northstarmom.
160) You tell your friends when it's time to check the decision online of the college that they (and not you) applied to since other people you know (aka CCers) are starting to access their decisions.
161) You are standing in your school hallway, see locker #1600, and an involuntary "Wow." comes out.
162) When you go to bookstore, you go straight to the "test prep" section to check if there are new SAT Books.
163) you get more excited when using TI-89 than a camera cell phone.
164) You wonder what's happened with SoozieVT's school scandal or another event you heard about on CC.
165) When you use CC to track how long does it take to deliver a letter from MA to CA.
166) You post a link to this site on your AIM profile, and call it "really cool."
167) You include someone's CC s/n in a bedtime story.
168) You know the TheDad's age.
169) You look at a person in total disgust when they say they are going to schools like the illinois state university.
170) You have a list of college bumper stickers you’ve seen- forget license plates.
171) The doctor says, "no, it's not arthritis, it's carpal tunnel." MOVE AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD!</p>

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<p>-- you know what S and D mean. [Yes.]
-- you are disappointed when you get a 2300. [N/A]
-- you freak out about that one B you got in English. [Nope]
-- you’ve made a chances thread. [No]
-- you’ve posted in a game thread. [Yes]
-- you’re adamant about taking six APs in your junior year because five is just not enough. [I ran out of APs to take.]
-- you’ve got one section of the SAT lopsided, so you panic and want to retake because that 700 is incompatible to the other two 770s. [n/a]
-- you’ve made a thread to ask (or posted an answer) if Choice A or Choice B is better in terms of classes, summer programs, colleges, etc. [answered, not asked]
-- you’re a sophomore and you’ve got your college list laid out already. [didnt have a clue as a soph]
-- you own multiple prep books – and CollegeBoard is a must. [never prepped]
-- first semester isn’t over and you’re already discussing about possible classes for next year. [i knew what my classes were going to be b/c of limited offerings]
-- you’ve planned out your entire course plan for the rest of your high school career. [see above]
-- you’ve applied for a summer program, an internship, and / or a scholarship. [if 'camp' means program, yes]
-- you’re definitely planning on going to a four-year college. [99% of kids at my school do]
-- you’ve asked for help or provided advice on preparing the SAT / ACT / PSAT / AP. [provided advice]
-- you’re considering an Ivy, Stanford, MIT –a prestigious college. [Yale 2010!]
-- you’re familiar with RSI, TASP, ISEF, Siemens Westinghouse, NIH, CTY, and the such. [yeah]
-- you know what these are: USABO, AIME, AMC, USNCO. [Yeah]
-- you’ve self-studied (or planning on self-studying) for an AP course. [4]
-- you’ve held more than one office or leadership position. [nhs pres, science olympiad pres]
-- you are in at least one of these: athletics, Speech & Debate / Model UN / National Forensics League, community service / Key Club / Red Cross, or politics / student government. [3]</p>

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<p>warblers - love that list! I skimmed it, but I recognize a lot of myself on it! Especially calling CC'ers friends and talkin' about people I meet here incessantly to real-life schoolmates. :p</p>

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<p>these are funny.
and sadly true.</p>

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<p>izzyj- so how did your friends react? :D</p>

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<p>LOL- the story of my life. My parents now think I am a total social reject because I've begun far too many conversations with "someone on collegeconfidential said..."</p>

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<p>6 APs Junior year?</p>

<p>Good lord, in my school it's only possible to take 4 as a Junior and 5 as a Senior.</p>

<p>And one of those is AP Studio Art.
How the hell did we rank 400-something on the Newseek list?</p>

<p>*Edit: ok, 6 if you're a senior and in 5th year of a foreign language. And Art.</p>

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<p><em>cough</em>Add worrying about Andison to that list somewhere.<em>cough</em></p>

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<p>Jo.Inc. - They usually look at me weirdly if I mention "friends from a forum" so I just get it down to "friends". They don't ask "where from" cause we all moved around so much!</p>

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<p>When you make a thread titled "Average Student Chances" and have a 3.8 GPA with a 28 ACT.</p>

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<p>spirited- So true. I think we all breathed a collective sigh of relief when he was admitted to WPI.</p>

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<p>fivre, go AP Studio art! God I love that class.</p>