<p>I think the guy with the 1400 was was being a little too hopeful. I mean, he didn’t even pay enough attention to see that the school he was after REQUIRED 2 subject test. No way he would have been successful at Columbia</p>
<p>I like the girl who got into Darmouth. You could tell she wasn’t a prestige whore (Applying ED to the least recognized ivy) and she really seemed passionate about what she does.</p>
<p>^mhmmm. The one who got accepted to Yale was really admirable too. They both worked so hard and still stayed positive most of the time. I kinda feel bad for all three girls though; I think their parents gave the girls too much stress when they’re already stressed enough. Still, all four went to amazing colleges :)</p>
<p>Didn’t one girl get in to an Ivy with like 600s on her SAT II’s? On that note, I got my SAT II bio scores back today. Made a 770 
Do you guys think I should retake? I hear 750+ is good for the Ivies, but idk.</p>
<p>As for prestige whoring, you can’t deny that the prestige of the top schools is, at the very least, PART of why we (I’m assuming, since we’re on CC) want to get in.</p>
<p>omg thats so good! congratulations for your 770! i wouldnt retake; 770 is really good for a soph. </p>
<p>i used to care about prestige, but honestly, i dont obsess over it. im probably one of the few CCers who dont care as much. haha i like to think that im going to college that i want to go, and not to impress others (and thats where prestige comes in). </p>
<p>omg i’m gonna go rewatch ivy dreams again. that was so good.</p>
<p>@TeamRocket - Congrats! 770 is a good score, I don’t think it’s worth retaking. Focus on something else.</p>
<p>Yeah, I guess prestige is one part of it. But I also feel that I would get the best education possible and have more opportunities BECAUSE I attended a prestigious institution. I mean, isn’t that why it’s considered prestigious in the first place…? Sorry if that didn’t make any sense. It’s 11pm and I need sleep.</p>
<p>@imhkim - Hahah don’t they have numerous episodes? Did you watch all of them?</p>
<p>Imhkim, thanks! :D</p>
<p>Catchinginfinity, thanks! Now, I’m focusing on my SAT II Math 2C and SAT II Chem 
I just want to get these tests out of the way so that I can focus primarily on my EC’s after December. I wanna take the SAT next year, though.</p>
<p>I see what you mean. The reasons for the prestige are that the institution has excellent professors and resources, thereby making its students exemplary and contributing to its overall image.</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity- haha yeah, i watched all of them!<br>
@teamrocketgrunt- good luck in those tests now :D</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity No, I definitely understand what you mean. Obviously, there ARE reasons why the top universities are prestigious in the first place, because they’re the one of the best,have some of the best facilities and you have to be some of the very best to get into them (pokemon vibes with the last words in this sentence, ignore me). Yes’m. What I was trying to say is that there’s nothing really wrong with (probably should have explained better) getting into colleges with prestige in them, it’s better to want to get into them for the sake of getting a better education or whatever reasons you may have other than say, “Oh, if I get into either <em>insert top college name here</em> I can brag to everybody about it” (I understand why a person would brag but there’s a line that crosses into excessive) or thinking that anything below those colleges is utter trash and one should look down on people for going to normal state universities. Yeah.</p>
<p>@anterograde - Yeah, that makes sense, not judging a school solely on it’s prestige.</p>
<p>Just curious, does anyone else have any Ivies or top-schools that they know they wouldn’t want to attend? For me, that’s Princeton (too preppy), Dartmouth (too jocky), and Penn (too pre-professional for me).</p>
<p>I’ll negotiate if I’m even eligible to get into any of the ivies.</p>
<p>Er…UChic or UPenn most likely. Maybe Yale?</p>
<p>Columbia and Yale are the only Ivies I care for</p>
<p>Stanford, Brown, maybe Yale</p>
<p>I definitely wouldn’t want to go to Columbia, Cornell, or Harvard</p>
<p>I’d love Columbia, Harvard, or MIT. I wouldn’t want to go to Stanford, either.</p>
<p>I’ll take what I can get.</p>
<p>Have any of you heard of the college light bulb jokes? For those of you who haven’t, here are the ones I can remember off the top of my head:</p>
<p>How many Cornell students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two - one to change the light bulb and one to crack under the pressure.</p>
<p>How many Princeton students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two - one to change the light bulb and one to mix the martinis.</p>
<p>How many Yale students does it take to change a light bulb?
None - New Haven looks better in the dark.</p>
<p>And my favorite: How many Harvard students does it take to change a light bulb?
One; he holds the light bulb and the world revolves around him.</p>
<p>Those are pure gold.</p>
<p>Found some others.</p>
<p>How many Penn students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Only one, but he gets six credits for it.</p>
<p>How many Columbia students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Seventy-six–one to change the lightbulb, fifty to protest the
lightbulb’s right to not change, and twenty-five to hold a counter-protest.</p>
<p>How many MIT students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Five --one to design a nuclear-powered one that never needs changing, one
to figure out how to power the rest of Boston using that nuked lightbulb,
two to install it, and one to write the computer program that controls
the wall switch.</p>
<p>How many Princeton students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two: one to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician. </p>
<p>How many Brown students does it take to change a light bulb?
Eleven: one to change the light bulb and ten to share the experience. </p>
<p>How many Dartmouth students does it take to change a light bulb?
None: Hanover doesn’t have electricity. </p>
<p>How many Tufts students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two–One to change the bulb and the other to say loudly how he did it as
well as an Ivy League student. </p>
<p>How many Virginia students does it take to change a lightbulb?
Two–one to change the bulb and one to talk about how Mr. Jefferson would
have wanted it done.</p>
<p>John Hopkins:
No one changes it. The less competition the better. </p>
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<p>Rest can be found there LOL</p>