<p>Tar - im sorry, but my first reaction to that post was “you idiot”…and i almost resisted the urge to say that…but i didnt…oops</p>
<p>you think kids in NoVa don’t work? don’t have ailing parents? Maybe you should take a trip there…
I worked, 15 hours a week, in addition to two season of varsity sports, two clubs (both with leadership posistions), tutored for math honor society once a week, math club meetings once a week, tutored a neighbor 2 hours each monday, tutored elem. school 2.5 hours each saturday morning, AND still did homework for 5 APs…i tried to be involved in my family every once in awhile too…
now, you’re saying that because the poor kid’s mother couldnt speak well, HE was bad at it to? thats like saying because my dad is a flaming jerk half the time is a good enough excuse for me to be the same way (my mom uses that phrase on me all the time hahah)? should i write in my essays “well im a good kid even though my dad is a jerk sometimes” and they should admit me? furthermore, my parents didnt go to college, and while they arnt non-intelligent, they dont have the same caliber of education im recieving, yet im still in a top-ranked college
also, there were 30-35 students in my elementary school classes too…my brother who just got out of 6th grade had 31…whats your point? its elem. school…however, my high school AP Calc class had 32 students in it and the other class had 31 because they didnt have enough teachers to move around sched. to make another class…can you even begin to imagine how tough that is on the students and the teachers?
so don’t try to say we have an easy life…we have 500+ kids in our class that we’re competeing against to become that top 10% that top schools crave…we have to have ridiculous after-school lives to give ourseleves the extra edge over the 100-200 other 3.7s…</p>
<p>on another note, my mom survived Inflammatory Breast Cancer…it was the worst year of my life, period, and it has seriously messed me up since because whenever something goes wrong with her, that year flashes through my mind, in addition to the fact 4 people with it she’s met have died…what makes it even better is the survival rate hovers around 25-30% right now (which is lower than UVAs admission rate to put it into context), and if it relapses, that chance is cut in half…and if you want to be a real prick and try to battle me over this one, google it (i’ll even spell it out for you: I-n-f-l-a-m-a-t-o-r-y B-r-e-a-s-t C-a-n-c-e-r, or IBC)…so dont sit here and blame kid’s failures on parent’s weaknesses/illnesses</p>