Aiming to high dudes

archi92 · 11-06-2009, 06:34 PM

My school is super duper UNcompetitive, the highest SAT score so far in our class is a 2020. Not only that, our school has a legacy of sending 50% of the kids into community colleges and none of them manage to a get into an Ivy. UC Berkeley is the highest, most prestigious school that so far the kids in my school has made into.
However, there are those who aim ridiculously high:

-A kid with a 1800 SAT, no awards, no leadership, brags about applying to Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, UCB and many other top tier schools (meaning no safties, match)
-Another insists on how she must apply to MIT because the school is an Ivy League (really sad there)
-Then, a student with a 1200/2400 SAT deciding to apply to Stanford.

I know that its good to dream and aiming high, but the kids at my school aim WAY too high. Does your school have the same thing too?

aigiqinf · 11-06-2009, 06:38 PM

Oh, yes...we have an admissions process and there are 6 people ranked behind a girl I know with a 1.9 GPA. We don't have APs and many of these people are pulling straight B's and have decided that they want to attend Wake Forest and Duke.

cclolzftw · 11-06-2009, 06:49 PM

There are kiddos at my high school who aim high, but not that high. What really irks me is "numbers" applicants who think that their high test scores, GPA, and class rank will automatically open doors at Top 20 schools.

Yeti Crab · 11-06-2009, 07:09 PM

^The NHS kids are even worse though.

PEQXC2012 · 11-06-2009, 07:21 PM

A kid at my school applied to USC/Notre Dame with a <2.5 GPA and wrote his essay about why he should get a football scholarship. Did I mention he got arrested twice?

He didn't even go to CC..

dunbar · 11-06-2009, 07:22 PM

I'm not sure on specifics, but it annoys me that the only college talk I've heard so far is about schools like Williams, JHU, and the Ivy League--all from kids who are probably at the 1500-1900 SAT range with no stellar ECs.

fresh101 · 11-06-2009, 07:30 PM

@archi and the above posters---that is the funniest thing i've ever heard!!! A kid with 1800 BRAGS about applying to HARVARD. WHAT an idiot!!! LOL

Zapz · 11-06-2009, 10:34 PM

No wonder you're school sends 50% to community college. They are getting rejected from all the colleges they apply to because they aim to high, hahaha.

I have seen none of this at my school. I was planning on applying high, but then I decided I wouldn't. I have not heard many people talk about applying to Ivy's either. Maybe that is because my social circle isn't that huge, but I don't even think the Val is applying to an Ivy. I know one who wants to go to Yale, but he's ranked 4/450ish.

Batllo · 11-06-2009, 10:41 PM

Seriously delusional kids(like those in the first post above) bragging about applying to Ivies and proudly showing their rejection letters. In their minds and the minds of their parents, they "almost" got into Harvard. Sad, but true.

archi92 · 11-06-2009, 10:54 PM

^ But somehow I understand their arrogance - they are surrounded with total morons and having the "highest" score in the school makes them think they would be accepted to top schools.

Thank god that I found CC - at least I could look into reality

sinflower · 11-06-2009, 11:00 PM

well it can't hurt for them to have dreams.

rocket6louise · 11-07-2009, 11:30 AM

we have a girl ranked 56/400, plays one sport with one EC..oh..and has a 1430/2400 SAT score. She thinks she'll get into Georgetown

Salve! · 11-07-2009, 12:03 PM

It's ok for people to aim high, but it's not ok when they are average or below average students and they only apply to "top" schools. That is the problem with all of the hyp about prestige. The person can have just as good of an experience at a lower tier school. I think the worst kids are the ones who just assume they will get a sports scholarship and go to whatever school they want.