| I applied to CC because of what makes it unique, and it's not as if I've decided to go there and it's not like that's the best school I could get into. Also, I will admit, I haven't spent much time talking to students from the other elite institutions in the country, but I have enough experience with students from some similarly elite schools (Middlebury, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Stanford and a few others) to say that I've found more bright people at those schools. To use test scores as a measure of intelligence is not valid, especially because my logic would dictate that NU students would have taken plenty of test prep classes anyways. I got a 35 cold, and while I consider myself intelligent, I don't consider that to be evidence of my intelligence. Also, sure there are a lot of NU parties, but if you've ever been to a party at almost any other college in the nation, you'd understand my perspective. |