Columbia2002

crapload - Wiktionary -- large amount "especially of something worthless"

spazzity

This thread is the paragon of why it's stupid/useless to argue on the internet.

But please do carry on, this is highly amusing to me, and I need entertainment to distract while I await email(s) from Columbia...

thebeef

Haha, agreed. Anyway, whatever, c2002 can look up his definitions using online dictionaries,

but my lingo comes from DA STREETZ YO!

spazzity

LoL I concur, thebeef, I've never heard anyone use crapload as Wiktionary apparently defines it, I have also always heard it used to mean "an overwhelmingly large quantity".

But I am now about to be sucked into an internet argument, so farewell...until we meet again in the next thread =)

cerberus08

This has devolved into a useless thread.

1) I figured that by 'crapload' zeke meant 'a lot of stuff' (no, I wasn't offended)
2) Denzera wasn't talking about you, Zeke, but C02 when he said it's unnecessary to call people names.

zeke72791

haha. "da streetz"

and im glad you weren't offended cerberus, because really it was a compliment if anything... and im sorry that you took it the wrong way c02, i should use less vague phrases next time. and lets kill this thread now.

justbelieve

11 acceptances from Harvard-Westlake School to Columbia University? (from the link C02 put up) That is outrageous. I've never even heard of that high school. Pfft.

BleedingBlue

My friend was actually one of the students accepted from Harvard-Westlake! That's bizarre. I had no idea there were ten others!

justbelieve - Harvard-Westlake is the big-time private school of Los Angeles. Or at least one of them. They're a bunch of geniuses.

hwoo09

back to the quota issue.... maybe?

I'm applying to SEAS and I'm sort of stressed that I have to face extra competition, since I'm classified as an international student... there's no doubt that competition for international students is tougher than the regular pool of U.S. citizens...

Not playing "I'm the victim" thing, but just thought that I would throw it out there and get the thread back to the original topic

corretto joe

Ahaha, well the reasons I listed were legitimate words from the admissions guy's mouth (though not one from Columbia) so I'm inclined to believe him...

Columbia2002

The only thing that's outrageous is your ignorance. So because you haven't heard of the school (who the heck are you to know?) therefore it's an outrage that it managed to send 11 people to CU?

No, not a bunch of geniuses. H-W isn't unique in its Ivy placement success. You'll find similar results at any of the other elite private schools like Andover, Exeter, etc. All these schools handful of geniuses and mostly everyone else is reasonably smart and just did all the right things and jumped through the right hoops due to proper guidance from the school and proper support from their parents.

Columbia2002

Well, it's irrelevant for purposes of Columbia

zeke72791

dude why are you so hostile?

Denzera

Suppose college admissions was like seat-belt laws (bear with me). People might have some questions about them, they can be a bit nebulous and vary from location to location, and it's a reasonable topic of conversation at certain points in your life. It's a topic of some worth to society, but on the whole, not a crucial aspect of our existence. Fair enough?

Most posters on this board and and the rest of CC tend to be like informational websites or hotlines, telling you that your kid has to be in a seatbelt if he's under X years old, or you can't do this or have to do that, but in a fairly straightforward, informative manner.

Moderators on this board are like the cops who stop you and give you a ticket if you're violating seatbelt laws. Harsh, perhaps, but performing a necessary function, without necessarily taking pleasure in it.

Columbia2002 would be like if a guy was wandering the streets, going up to cars who are stopped at stoplights, and screaming in rage at everyone who he spotted who wasn't wearing a seatbelt. I mean, really working up a lather, foaming at the mouth, over the simple situation of someone not wearing a seatbelt. On the face of it, he's right, but it doesn't affect anyone but the violator. So, he's still a jerk, of questionable mental stability, who nobody would want to have at a party of theirs. Plus, where the heck is he getting all this time to wander the streets in search of the violators of seatbelt laws? Isn't he employed? One thing we can all agree on is that he's taking what should be simple matters and taking them way too freaking seriously.

Thus concludes my brilliant analogy.

spazzity

LoL that's great Denzera.