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08-23-2008, 02:47 AM
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#1036 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 168
| yo ray you went to garfield? | 
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08-24-2008, 08:57 PM
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#1037 | | New Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 25
| man all these people got nothing on me.
GPA: 8.0
Rank: 1/10000
9th grade:
Fought evil guys with Ironman
10th grade:
Made AI advances with Bill Gates
11th:
helped(helping) micheal bay film transformers 2
12th:
gonna represent USA at the UN.
...and i still didn't get into community college... | |
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08-25-2008, 12:49 AM
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#1038 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 190
| wow, this thread is deprehhhsinggg, haha.
still cool tho  | |
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08-25-2008, 10:56 PM
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#1039 | | Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 784
| GPA: 8.0
Rank: 1/10000
"9th grade:
Fought evil guys with Ironman
10th grade:
Made AI advances with Bill Gates
11th:
helped(helping) micheal bay film transformers 2
12th:
gonna represent USA at the UN.
...and i still didn't get into community college..."
Didn't you also do 5X10^10 community service hours a day?
Maybe that was the problem.... | |
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08-26-2008, 05:46 PM
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#1040 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 137
| i also heard he was 1st gen and had billions of legacies at every college, including the community college... | |
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08-26-2008, 06:11 PM
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#1041 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 11
| Accepted: UChicago, WashU, William & Mary, CMU, UF, UMiami, Tulane
Waitlisted: Davidson
Denied: Yale, Georgetown
White Male
SAT I 2090
700V
720M
670W
Full IB Schedule
3.8 GPA UW
21/420 class rank
SAT II (an epic fail imo)
Spanish 690
English 660
Math I 690
ECs :
Captain of Varsity Tennis Team and sectionally ranked USTA player zillions of hours
Red Cross volunteer with about >100 hours/year
Beta Club
NHS
Piano lessons etc
Art competitions for photography
Spanish translator at parent teacher conferences
Awards:
Congressional Award Bronze and Silver
numerous art show wins
tennis awards MVP Most Improved etc.
idk
Recs: amazing
Essays: ranged from standard to whacky
Luck: probably tons | |
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08-27-2008, 10:41 PM
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#1042 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Joisey
Posts: 271
| Proof that standardized testing isn't everything!...^ | |
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08-31-2008, 07:19 PM
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#1043 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: PA
Posts: 51
| "I used to think that CC was full of above average students, that we all could emulate. Turns out its full of the top tier students, who have the best possible chances. Its impossible for those of us that are not slightly wealthy to gain the amount of EC's and volunteer that you people have. Obviously, due to home responsibilities and lack of car or bus token money..."
Very true. I moved to an okay suburban school after middle school. Didn't have transportation/money to have violin lessons, tennis lessons, art lessons. Practiced A LOT of tennis during the summer when the courts aren't covered with snow.. but still am not good as those who have the opportunity to take lessons or go to clinics. College admissions can be unfair at times, but college doesn't determine who you are. Ability to take responsibilities at home or to use the little resources that you have can take you farther than where you go to college. And of course, if you DO get into a first-tier college with little resource, you will have accomplished a lot more. | |
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08-31-2008, 11:42 PM
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#1044 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 466
| Is there anyone with a score in the 1900's who got accepted anywhere good? This is so intimidating.... | |
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09-01-2008, 11:50 AM
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#1045 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 169
| dammit people here are so paranoid. Anyone can get into any school if they are reasonably qualified. It all comes down to what they are looking for that year. Write great essays and sell yourself to the school. Then let them make a decision and move on after that. The kind of people on this site at times get on my nerves. I know plenty of people with 1900 ish SAT scores who have gotten into the likes of dartmouth, cornell, stanford etc.What does it say on almost eerry college website? Usually something like WE AINT GOT CUTOFF SCORES .Just stop worrying so much people, please. | |
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09-01-2008, 02:47 PM
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#1046 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 462
| you seem pretty worried too  | |
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09-01-2008, 05:35 PM
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#1047 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 169
| of course im just like anyone else.... a little nervous/ anxious etc. but im not freaking out like some people I know and like some people on CC seem to be. | |
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09-02-2008, 06:24 PM
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#1048 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 33
| Class Rank: 245/540
Unweighted GPA: 3.15
ACT: 31
SAT Critical Reading: 590
SAT Math: 610
Combined SAT: 1200
AP Literature: 4
Texas resident
EC:
Katrina Volunteer
LDS Church member w/ priesthood responsibilities
Accepted: Penn State, Fordham, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Utah, Brigham Young, Rutgers (A)
Rejected: None!  | |
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09-02-2008, 08:17 PM
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#1049 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 54
| yo ray you went to garfield?
Nope...why? | |
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09-04-2008, 07:34 PM
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#1050 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: It depends >-┐ Berkeley <--------------┘
Posts: 1,446
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Originally Posted by neot3e0ne "^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs." by FellowCCViewer referring to stupidkid's post about how he got accepted to all the top colleges
lol i know plenty of people like that?
ever met alex zhai? or possibly 1/4 of the kids at phillips exeter.
they are even better than stupidkid, they actually went to Siemens Nationals...=P | I don't understand what you're saying. I also don't understand why you would put out a person's name and ask if I've met him. | |
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