<p>@Agrasin
I’m a sophomore too. It’s sad that the best years of our lives are being taken over by our academic obsessions.
If I’m going to be honest, I’m not a true sufferer of CCD (even though I started this thread :P). I freak out about my grades, and I obsess about college, but I’m too lazy to actually do anything to raise my scores. I mean, I feel like I’m doing well (although I got an 85 on my last math test, darn it. There goes the A+ average :D) Oh, and I drive my friends crazy because apparently all I talk about is college, SATs, PSATs, and summer programs.</p>
<p>God, I hope these aren’t the best years of my life.</p>
<p>Ugh. Even this thread makes me depressed. I have a 32 ACT and a 2130 SAT. To read about people who feel ashamed of scores higher than that just makes me feel like crap. Because I worked really hard for my scores (those are my retake scores) and now I know that they are next to nothing.</p>
<p>“To read about people who feel ashamed of scores higher than that”</p>
<p>That’s called fishing for compliments. If they were truly ashamed of the scores they wouldn’t share them.</p>
<p>You know the CCD is strong when you have kids with 2400s/36s/4.0s/18+ AP courses/Extreme ECs panicking and thinking that they’ll end up in a community college.</p>
<p>For those people, community college = anything that isn’t Harvard.</p>
<p>You guys gotta learn how to baylife.</p>
<p>For a while, but then I realized: unlike most people here on CC, I don’t want to get into any Ivy League school or LAC’s! I’m only interested in huge state schools :D</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it CC has made me depressed, but it has made me realize that I am a big fish in a small pond.</p>
<p>@Cynosuree
Better now than later, I suppose.</p>
<p>It’s begun already.
I literally have started falling asleep with AP study books because I stay up studying and eventually pass out from exhaustion.</p>
<p>ummm…I think…ok i know i do -__-</p>
<p>@Cynosuree, yea, me too. I was always at the top, and now that Im a freshman I see and realized that SOO much more! -.-</p>
<p>“I wouldn’t say it CC has made me depressed, but it has made me realize that I am a big fish in a small pond.”</p>
<p>There’s some merit to this kind of environment, though. If I were surrounded by ridiculous overachievers I probably wouldn’t be as motivated.</p>
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<p>It sure does feel like it sometimes. I guess the reason why it’s shocking to see so many geniuses is because we don’t see much in our daily lives, and this site is where most of them congregate to talk about Top 20 schools.</p>
<p>The other thing that has the potential to bring out the worst in people are – no offense – most of the adults. Some inexperienced hopeful simply asks if they stand a chance at a good school, and the adults are ruthless. They don’t even cushion the blow; they just get right to it, cold and simple. And when the OPs then deny the adults’ assessments, they assume the OP is a childish narcissist. Well, of course they’re gonna get angry or deny them – they just dropped a bomb at them, at a school they were looking forward to applying to. They say that the OP should just take it because they’re almost adults, but I honestly think it’s a bit more human for the OP to feel that way. What if the adults applied for their dream job at a dream place, then some expert flat out says, “You suck. Do us all a favor and just don’t bother.” Ouch. </p>
<p>Now I just hope none of the adults find this because for some reason they have a habit of finding your history, and they are willing to use anything against you if you contest their opinions. </p>
<p>Of course, I’m pretty sure they’re just trying to help and have the best interests in mind. They ARE a Mecca of information that you’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere else, and a lot of them know how to research, argue, and get their facts straight. But for pete’s sake, don’t slap the OP’s face.</p>
<p>That’s me.</p>
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Dude I KNOWWW!!! They are like big time creepers!!! Only a few of them are helpful the others are like super mean and jacked up. I don’t understand why everyone on here has to be so mean (though I will admit it use to be A LOT worse).</p>
<p>“they have a habit of finding your history, and they are willing to use anything against you if you contest their opinions.”</p>
<p>This isn’t surprising. They’re all parents.</p>
<p>The parent thing is very much true. For a long time I was nervous about posting anything, because the environment is not very welcoming on a lot of threads. It’s as though having a score less than 2200 on the SAT makes one a second class citizen.</p>
<p>No. I embrace it lol</p>