<p>Yep. Mostly it’s “If you don’t get into _____, then what about ME?”</p>
<p>Definitely 1 good thing about CC is that it gives you a reality check. A lot of kids with no knowledge about the admissions process get blind-sided</p>
<p>A little reality check. A lot of the people are overly cautious and chance schools as reaches when I would say they’re low matches or something like that. I mean obviously no one can truly know, but still.</p>
<p>Maybe people here are a little over the top but most high schoolers don’t know a lot about the college admissions process. My friends don’t know ANYTHING. I’ve become their college counselor…</p>
<p>Yea, most juniors and a lot of seniors expect me to get in everywhere. I’m like, lolno.</p>
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<p>Most high schoolers don’t need to.</p>
<p>@My88Keys LOL My parents always say that too, “You’ll get in every school you applied to!”</p>
<p>My counselor gave me this sheet with school and suggested SAT scores. Three colleges/universities I’m applying to are on this sheet.</p>
<p>University of Maryland College Park - 1890
Virginia Tech - 1815
Salisbury - 1690</p>
<p>My SAT score wasn’t even near those scores and that’s like half of my college list lol.</p>
<p>Is Salisbury a culinary school?</p>
<p>My classmates are very much aware of how competitive college admissions is. Some of them don’t care though. Others freak out about it all the time. My principal told us that if we have like under 2.0 gpa and under a 20 ACT she does not want us applying to any ivy league schools. My school counselors hate when students call UIUC a safety because almost everyone from our school gets in. So my school has realistic expectations and don’t give us false hope.</p>
<p>My mom already told me she doesn’t want to read my rejection letters lol. She will get mad.</p>
<p>My school is so Texas focused. Whenever our counselours talk about college admissions, they only mention applytexas.com, and TX universities. They rarely talk about Common App.</p>
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Same with my school, except I’m from Ohio. It’s sort of weird when you realize most colleges don’t use the Common App.</p>
<p>Despite having a class size of less than 100, my school has kids all over the spectrum. Some kids are applying to Ivies, while others are only applying to small local schools.</p>
<p>the counselors at my school, I think, assume that everyone already knows about those things.</p>
<p>Some kids in my school don’t even know what Subject Tests are. One kid told me he was applying to UPenn. When I later brought up Subject Tests, he told he that he “doesn’t really know much about those.” And he’s not planning on taking the ACT, so I don’t know how he’s going to fare.</p>
<p>We have really good counselors at my school, so everyone knows the basics and the overall picture fairly well. Having a ratio of students to counselors of 9:1 doesn’t hurt either though.</p>
<p>When I went to the test center to take Subject Tests, I was the only person there. People at my school just don’t take those.</p>
<p>LOL. The people at my school are a little better at that but almost no one takes the ACT.</p>
<p>In Ohio, no one takes the SAT. So when you try to brag about your SAT score people are all like, “Is that good or bad?” 
And I was one of the only juniors to take the PSAT because a lot of the others were convinced it was a sophomore-only test. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>@Repede Lol no. It’s not a culinary school.</p>
<p>I told my friend I was taking subject tests and she said (rudely) “That’s stupid. Why do you need those?” I decided not to explain and said that a school I’m applying to required them rather then say I thought I’d do well and it would help my app. She also told me that admissions should be solely based on GPA and SATs, but later told me that ECs help.</p>