<p>I’m looking around at some of the stats on here, struggling to believe how awesome some people are at time management. At the above-average public school I attend, 3 AP Classes Junior Year is the exception, not the rule. I can name maybe three people at my school with the drive and ambition of this site’s userbase. I’m just wondering, is 3 AP classes the rule at some top private schools?</p>
<p>I thought I was one of the smarter ones, lol. I guess this is a common phenomenon here. Oh well, if you can handle 7 AP classes, varsity sports, and elite interships at once, more power to you. I’m just wondering if I’ll ever get to catch up by grad school. Is how I do in high school really the be-all-end-all?</p>
<p>If it does, I should never have been born.
I do take a lot of AP classes but my ECs aren’t even worth writing down. I’m good at time management but bad at…being good at stuff.</p>
<p>The kids here are usually the ones who get into schools such as HYPSM and the like. Kids here tend to have SATs of 2000+ and take 10+ APs by the time they graduate, the average high school student barely takes one AP and scores around a 1500 on the SAT, and that is if they even take it.</p>
<p>So the answer to your question is no. Though the world would be pretty interesting if the CC-stereotype really represented the average high school student.</p>
<p>That would be awesome, a world where humanity’s average IQ is 100 points higher. People would be expected to take calculus in elementary school, know at least 3 languages fluently, be able to learn things like Japanese within half a year. We’d all be in space, conquering the galaxies. Life would be so much more interesting if everyone understood philosophy and advanced mathematics, if these were casual conversations rather than an exercise in esotericism.</p>
<p>Then again, people wouldn’t feel that way. They’d just feel they were of average intelligence.</p>
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