<p>haha. CC has made me insanely competitive! My friends are like, "oh, no one has over 100 hours of community service and a 4.0!" and I'm like "You don't know the members of CC." I think they all believe I'm in a cult of some sorts. </p>
<p>I've had dreams about CC too!! About how everyone hates me or how unknowingly someone on here is really a dean of admissions to a college I want to go to, and in the chances thread tells me I will never have a chance...tough.
And I get excited about the number of posts I've made..</p>
<p>A few months of CC has me totally jaded. College talks have come up a lot lately, and my friends/family say stuff like "Oh, and for you QuickLikeCat, Harvard? Yale? PRINCETON?!?" I just laugh and try to pass it off as a cough and say "Those are great schools, but I really don't think I could get in." They shush me and say I'm wrong and being overly modest, CC has taught me I am right.</p>
<p>And, I know more about SAT/AP prep books than necessary. I went to Borders with my mom and stood in front of the scary test prep wall, and I grabbed very particular books. I tried to explain to my mom why it was pointless to buy the Kaplan or PR SAT books because their questions aren't real.
Mom: "But...how do you KNOW which books are good and which ones aren't? Books are books, and material is material."
Me: "No, it's not! It's on the internet, okay? I just know!"</p>
<p>omg seriously! i almost get offended when people think im being overly modest and i feel tempted to send them to cc. you think im qualified? ill show you! heh!</p>
<p>i was at a friends house and her brother was on cc (hes going to college next year) and i shrieked HEYY I GO ON CC ALSO!! and he was all embarressed, like uh...i was just looking for dorming stuf...and then my friend asked me what cc was and i mumbled that its something for neurotic overachievers and quickly changed the subject. :)</p>
<p>QuickLikeCat
Hahahahha yeah the books! My mum has bought me soooooo many SAT test prep books and they are like, stupid ones.. the ones with little 'tricks' and 'hints'.. and everytime she bought me a book, I'd yell at her, shout at her: "These books don't help! these companies rip us off! STOP BUYING THESE BOOKS!!!!" and she's like 'why?' and i said, 'Because Xiggi said so'</p>
<p>My friends (They know nothing of SATs) asked me what I got in that 'american test'. and I said I got 720 for sat2 maths ic. And they were like, 'is that a good score?'. And I said, 'it's ok i guess. I'm going to take it again though'. And they were like, 'so if you get like 721 or something, you'll get into Harvard?'
CC is the only place where I can talk about these stuff......</p>
<p>NoFX I have a question for u. Do u spell "mom" mum in New Zealand? Is that part of the sort of british english or is that a popular slang of mom there? I'm just really curious about that.</p>
<p>haha yeah it's 'mum'. We spell it like that and pronounce it like that. and it's definetly not slang. And I think we go by British Englih nearly most of the time. Like, in the states, i think you guys spell "recognize" with the z. Here, it's "recognise". Same for all the other ones ( i can't think of any at the mo). And we spell 'color' - 'colour'. Damn microsoft word! It always says I have a spelling error for british englishy words</p>
<p>oh dialogue is dialog .. or dialogue .. i use the 2nd one actually
i guess it applies to words like catalog, cuz it's changed to catalogue there
spelt? is it spelled or spelt? i always get confused
and then smelt .. ahh i never know which is more "proper" .. only a CCer would worry lol</p>
<p>during the school year, most of the material for my xanga entries actually comes from CC, because this is what i do in my time away from school =</p>
<p>Yeah, people think I'm being overly modest when I tell them my EC's but then say I won't be too disappointed if I don't get into HYS.</p>
<p>Back to the original topic, I was standing in my bathroom brushing my teeth, and I spotted the ACT fluoride mouthrinse, and I thought, "Hmmm...I wonder if I would do better on the ACT than I did on the SAT..."</p>
<p>I've been counseling my sisters since seventh grade. And I discovered CC just over a year ago.</p>
<p>I was made for CC.</p>
<p>My dad makes me tell him what happens in my life and stuff. I guess that's his way of maintaining our "relationship". It's funny because the only thing I've talked about for like the past week was CC. A couple days ago I told him about how I met someone from my district on here and he freaked out. I was like, "If someone is ambitious enough to come onto this site, they wouldn't be the kind of person to do anything - and I mean ANYTHING - dangerous or threatening."</p>
<p>I swear my parents probably think this shady "CC" site is really a porn site or something that I'm obsessed with because I'm ALWAYS on it.</p>
<p>Why does nobody except CCers understand that just because you're academically worshipped in your own teeny town, you don't have a shot in a dark hole of HYPS?!</p>