brag sheet for counselor

[Kalookakoo]

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@Lizarel

Dude, I got into Harvard after rambling incoherently about physics and a little bit of English and history for my whole thing. And my counselor says that she wrote me one of the best recs ever of the year (which is quite an improvement over her ABSOLUTE SHOCK that I, stupid little me, could POSSIBLY have broken 2300 on the SAT three months earlier.) I have dozens of national accolades in Latin (some more prestigious than others), and participated in my school’s literary magazine for a couple years. See any physics extracurriculars? Or history? Or English awards? No! That’s because I /am/ interested in physics, even if I’m a scrub at it.</p>

<p>You are a moral failure if you have to lie your way into colleges, and good god if you get in somewhere better than you deserve, I hope it haunts you for all of your years in that college. I will probably be lambasted by the other forumites for being harsh, but DUDE. DON’T LIE. Truth is important, especially in a system that so much relies on self-reporting. Lying either doesn’t make a difference or screws over truthful kids who did deserve that spot.

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<p>BREATHE MY FRIEND! BREATHE!!!</p>

<p>To Topic Starter:

1. Stop stressing Lirazel out. :(</p>

<p>2) And SERIOUSLY, just be brutally honest. Lying is like saying you know that you aren’t capable of getting into college the way you are. You need a handful of BS to throw in their eyes to get in. Is that rally how you want it?</p>

<p>And I doubt they care your distance running ranking. As long as your passionate, they’ll think highly of you for it.</p>

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@superaznnerd

i dont think honesty actually works…
if I just talk about how much I improved, I look like a scrub…so thats definitely not an option</p>

<p>what if I talk about something like this?:Ill talk about how I set an example for my team. During this very important meet blah blah blah, I had a 101 degree fever. I threw up seconds before the race. However, I ran through it blah blh blah put my self through 17 minutes of torture blah blah blah showed my courage and set an example for my team blah blah blah…

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<p>You sound like a scrub for progressing over time and working at it, instead of being born with such talents? Where’s your logic in that? Yup, colleges want kids who don’t know what working at something feels like. (Sarcasm)</p>

<p>And your second paragraph proves to me, that you think colleges want some tear-eyed drama about obstacles and overcoming. You are dead wrong my friend. They have seen it all, and want nothing but cold hard realism. Not some pretty fairy tale.</p>