myoliewufan1995

I absolutely agree!
I thought that getting into college would be a breeze (especially since I go to a school that's ranked the lowest in LA County) until I came to CC. It kinda shatters my hope of getting into UCLA or USC especially since I am going to compete with 4.0 2200+ SAT score, president of key club, captain of the soccer team... While I'm struggling with maintaining my GPA, balancing
volunteering hours, and stressing

saminator910

I'll get in 10/11 (hehe screw AP art), but yeah 10 is nothing by comparison, I read this other thread where a girl took 18 in ONE year. keep in mind though, APs aren't everything.

Descuff

Hah I think some people lie, though

Sent from my LG-VM696 using CC

alexissss

In a year? Self studying many, I assume.
This kid in my graduating class took 17. He ended up at a state college (very good one, though).

Marie96

My whole family thinks that I am a genius. Trust me, I have nothing "outstanding" at all...especially compared to some people on CC who are on the brink of finding a cure for cancer.

The only main thing that bothers me is that my family doesn't understand everything that it takes to get into a good college. To them, a 1700 on the SAT is some Stephen Hawking/Bill Gates stuff.

Anyways, I'm glad I'm not the only person who feels like this!

awolfatthedoor

I was completely unaware of the uber-competitive students I was up against until I went to a "nerd camp" program at Northwestern last year. Being from a public high school in the midwest, seeing the East Coast boarding school kids who were winning regional chess tournaments and acing their SAT's really freaked me out..

Next year, when I went over my transcript with my GC he pointed to my 2030 SAT and exclaimed "don't worry about college, you can get into anywhere you want with that score!"

If only he knew the type of students I had met at nerd camp..

EveningSwan

My friend thinks that her brother (who is a senior) could get into Harvard if he wanted to. He has somewhere around a 3.9 GPA, a NHS member, NMS, and he's in a couple of clubs. If only she knew about CC...

halcyonheather

My school's kind of funny. All the counselors are like, "You can get into anywhere you want!"
Then they rejected me from NHS.

myoliewufan1995

Marie96, my parents are like yours. I have All A's and 1 B but my dad thinks I'm bound to go to UCLA LOL. They have no idea how much competition there is. I swear like 95% of ccers have 4.0 GPA and 2100+ SAT


Have a nice day

steelergolf11

From my experience, there are two types of oblivious people when it comes to elite college admissions:

1. The person who thinks that the only people that can possibly go to Ivy League schools are rich, connected Northeast elites

2. The person who thinks you will definitely get into Harvard with straight A's and a 2000 SAT

alexissss

@myo
This.

Parents will never understand the struggle, lol. T_T

halcyonheather

I've told maybe two people about this website, and usually the response is, "But everyone lies on the Internet!"
Which is very true. But if you're into lying on the Internet, why would you do it here?

ThatOneCoolNerd

Ahhh story of my life. But the way I see it is this. Half of the people on CC are exaggerating and the other half are genuinely telling the truth. It helps me worry less about it. LOL

Descuff

I personally think too many people make up their scores and GPAs on here. In some topics I been in I so clearly shown my low PSAT score (not really even low at all, it was a good score being above the average/ it is low by CC standards), and someone got comfortable to reveil their "low-ish" scores because he/she felt like CCers would attack for the low scores. Right now it seem like about 90% of CCer are one of the 2200+ scores, 3.8+ GPA. This I truly doubt because the other people have been silenced by the astonding high scores.

Perhaps on of the most interesting thing I came upon was after the Oct SAT scores came out and some people were blowing their whistle saying they had been scored wrongly and claim that CC gave them "this" scores. CC doesn't have the answer to every problems. The whole thread itself proved that CC is unreliable in finding correct answers for SAT/ACT considering that these answer are based on a collective of memory and by forceful opinions trying to prove why 'A' and not 'C' is correct.

pinklemonadeNE

People on CC can definitely make up their scores-- only take it for what its worth. I don't really compare myself to other CCers, if you want to look at your competition, look at ACTUAL data put out by universities about their previous class.