<p>Get yourself to a community college: why would you be a
waste of my time? I don’t care that much, but it’s obnoxious;
but my time is not very valuable, except for in this second–
I am not the best adcom that exists, and I am mostly finished: I am very
proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more slights to my name
and people who I am obliged to humble than there are
stars in the sky. We are arrant jagoffs,
all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a community college.
Where’s your father?</p>
<p>He’s a professor, sir.</p>
<p>I’ll call up some friends who can pull some strings to
make sure he’s never tenured.</p>
<p>I–I think you guys are different this time!</p>
<p>*** is a soliloquy</p>
<p>@poppysea</p>
<p>If you do get into a good college, I’ll curse you thus,
your graduation present: be as dry as an AA member, as chaste as
Good Queen Bess, thou shalt not escape sadness. Get thee to a
community college, go: peace. Or, if you really need a good
college, attend a non-selective one; for selective colleges know
you won’t ever go anywhere. To a community college, go,
and quickly too. Peace out.</p>
<p>Uh . . . guys, please go back to how you were before!</p>
<p>I have heard of your facades too, well enough; Collegeboard
has given you one set of scores, and you make yourself out
to be better than all of those–you are stupid and you
nick-name your possessions, and are generally obnoxious.
Go to, I’ll no more on’t; it hath
made me mad. I say, no one else will ever get into
college, everyone who is going to college has done so already. To a
Community College, go.</p>
<p>O, what a great mind has been killed by work!
The adcom’s, student’s, scholar’s, tongue, mouse, pen;
The hopes of a region on his shoulders,
The mirror of tricks, and the mould of AP,
The judge of the judgmental, quite, quite mad!
And I, of women pathetic and sad,
That annoyed the hell out of them with calls,
I understand, really, I was a broad,
Like that song by the New Pornographers;
That incomparable loss of talent
Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!</p>
<p>i wanted to join in but i suck at soliloquies :(</p>
<p>O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that these posters here
But in a jest, but in a dream of chancing
Could so force their souls to their own conceit
That from these postings, trepidation wanes:
Laughs broke my throat, distraction 'twas my aspect,
A tearful face, and my whole person shaking
A jest to trump my fears! And all for nothing!
A message board!
What’s poppysea to me, or me to fishgills,
That I should laugh for them? What ought I do
Who has the motive and the cue: early
Decision! I must flood the board with spam
And cleave the general ear with chancing theads
Make mad the chancers, bump’d beyond chancees
My app confounds my person, and indeed
The distant faculties in New York dear.
(…)
'Swounds, I am worried, for 'tis my right place
That I be pigeon-livered, filled with fear
And apprehension bitter, else I may
No more lend credence to “the goal’s attain’d”
Or “I’m rejected”: Bloody, bawdy adcoms!
Remorseless, heartless, fearsome, fitful adcoms!
O, Decision!!</p>
<p>More matter with less art!</p>
<p>Chance me? I already did a thread—but I’m anxious… 1 day until decisions and all… Plus, I realized that not all my EC’s could be mentioned on the app, so I cut it down to what I did put on the app.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.86 unweighted</p>
<p>Classes (including senior year):
Hnrs Earth Science, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP Physics
Hnrs Algebra, Hnrs Geometry, Hnrs Algebra II, Hnrs PreCalc, AP Calc
Hnrs English 10, Hnrs English 11, AP Lit, AP Language (took the test, we don’t offer a class on it)
Global 9, AP World, AP U.S. History, Economics, Participation in Gov’t
Hnrs French III and IV, Hnrs Spanish II, III, and IV, AP French, AP Spanish,
Materials Chemistry, Electronics, Concert Choir, Select Choir</p>
<p>*Generally with my classes, I average mid-high 80’s (Science/Math) to mid-high 90’s (English, Foreign Language, History)</p>
<p>SAT: Math 720, CR 680, Writing 710 - (Taken once—retook last saturday, not that it matters for Columbia.)
Chem: 640 (Ow.)
Math I: 700
French: 700
Spanish: 700</p>
<p>French and Spanish were submitted to Columbia. They’re not super great scores, but I’m not a native speaker and have only had 3 years of French, so…</p>
<p>AP scores:
Chem - 4
World - 3
English Language - 5
Biology - 5
US History - 4</p>
<p>ECs:
Ballroom dance (Formation Team Dancer)- 9, 11, 12
Karate (Brown/Red-belt)- 9, 10, 11, 12
NHS (Vice-pres)- 11, 12
Spanish NHS (Vice-pres)- 11, 12
Student Senate- 11, 12
TATF - Teen AIDS Task Force (President)—we work in conjunction with AIDS Community Resources- 10, 11, 12
Piano (Various awards, recognition whatnots—surprise! Another Asian prerequisite.)- 9, 10, 12
Yay, I’m your smiling Starbucks barista- 11, 12
Studied Spanish language and culture in Spain for a month in 2006- summer between 9, 10</p>
<p>Awards & Misc:
AP Scholar w. Distinction- 12
17th in NYS for National Spanish Contest Level 2- 9
85th percentile nationally for Nation Spanish Contest Level 3 - Silver Award- 10
Dual Language Award (School)- 11
Faculty Staff Award (School)- 11</p>
<p>I miss class. A lot. Yes, I realize that reflects badly on me. (Insane family member issues, namely my lovely violent anti-medicine bipolar father. And my mother, who loves him and won’t leave. And me. Her shield when he starts getting abusive.)</p>
<p>I did mention above issues in my essay–well, touched on it, really. I don’t really want people treating me like a kicked puppy. My essay in a nutshell is… (copy+pasted from previous post):</p>
<p>I wrote about the concept of being alone through this things my boyfriend and I do—we call each other before we go to bed and leave the phone. I know. We’re dorks. (Still, it’s nice when you wake up and you look over to your pillow and the call is still there. Comforting, in a strange way. But I digress.)—Shraf said it was brilliant/profound 
Confidence booster, though I was so set on being rejected/deferred and now I have this painful hope… sigh.</p>
<p>Teacher Rec A: “If you don’t get into Columbia, I don’t know who will, given the essay I wrote you”—direct quote. So I assume it’s really good. I’ve had this teacher for 2 years, 1 for French, 1 for Spanish.</p>
<p>Teacher Rec B: She loves me but knows I have a penchant for losing things/not doing work (although over the 3 years I’ve had her, this has gotten a lot better)—English teacher, brilliant.</p>
<p>Counselor: Also loves me, knows about my family situation. Said I was someone she was “excited to write the recommendation for”.</p>
<p>Sigh. I’m bored… waiting makes me so antsy.</p>
<p>PS… I’m an Asian female from NY (Chinese) who attends a public school (we send a lot of grads to Ivies and such though. mostly Cornell… can’t remember the last person that went to Columbia) really hopes she isn’t compared with the other Asians with perfect scores on standardized testing. I speak Chinese but never took the SAT II’s… regret…</p>
<p>fishgills, this is the funniest thing on this board in months.</p>
<p>Get thee to a punnery, indeed.</p>
<p>If we shadows have offended, think but this; and all is mended that you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear and this weak and idle theme no more yielding but a dream. Gentles–do not reprehend if you pardon, we will mend.</p>
<p>And, as I am an honest Puck if we have unearned luck. Now to scape the serpents tongue. We will make amends ere long else the Puck a liar call. So–goodnight unto you all. Give me your hands if we be friends. And Robin shall restore amends</p>