I don’t know if anyone from my school got into an Ivy today, but someone did get into Cooper Union. :-bd
@tonystarkofwinterfell No, only about 80 students get accepted to the program I applied to, we’re one of the last to have decisions released, and someone sent an email to the program host who responded saying all acceptances would be released by April.
Rejection hurts more than I thought it would, even though I kinda expected rejection.
@foliontai I know a girl from my school who got into Johns Hopkins and Georgetown for IR!
@tonystarkofwinterfell Ah, that is so great! She must be living the dream; those are probably the absolute best IR undergrad schools in the country!
Random question lol, but does anyone on this thread play Clash of Clans by any chance? If so, then what’s your clan name and gamertag?
Science olympiad state meet this Saturday!! time to build a protein 
Help me out guys…
Do I have a shot at any of these schools (I know I haven’t taken the SATs yet or anything, but yea let’s just assume I do well on them):
Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton.
My intended major is Computer Science
Here’s my resume (online): http://onlineresume1.■■■■■■■■■■/
You definitely do.
@YoohooAddict COC player here! My clan tag is L022L228. It’s called Devil Clashers, level 6, 1500 trophies required, about 40 members. One of the co-leaders is alexxandra. That’s me. I’ll accept you if you request
One of my senior friends got into Stanford and Harvard haha. So proud of him, but the realization hit me that I need to accomplish the same next year.
@musiclover131 You’re sorta rushed tho… @ZBlue17 Can you elaborate on your answer please?
@YoohooAddict not really… I maxed out everything except walls on TH7 then became 8. I’m working on my base so
You have the GPA and the ECs, so your chances aren’t “good” or “bad”, but you have as much of a chance as any qualified applicant.
Does anybody have opinions about Amherst? I hadn’t even considered applying there because it seemed way too tiny but they’ve been sending me so many pretty emails…
I’m falling right into the marketing trap!
I also had a teacher who loved it at Amherst. Three reaches is already enough for me though. I’m around Amherst’s 50th percentile, but a 14% acceptance rate is a reach for everyone I think.
@bfc2017 they called my house phone and started emailing me! I would love to go, but naturally, they don’t offer undergrad business 
Amherst has an open curriculum, so right now it’s on my list. However, right now, I’m leaning towards bigger schools for the simple reason that most LACs don’t offer many courses in one of my prospective majors (Geology). I love the LAC environment, though.
This might seem like kind of a disheartening question (ah - sorry!) but do you guys ever feel scared that you won’t get accepted to any college?
Sometimes looking at CC really scares me because pretty much everyone has astounding stats and is involved in some sort of summer program or has completed some type of activity that’s relevant to their major while participating in a sport that they’ve loved for years and years and everyone feels like they’ve had direction forever - and it’s just really intimidating to me because my list of achievements is all willy-nilly (and rather short) because I really didn’t know what I wanted to do before this year.
@desideratum I totally feel you! I feel like my desire to attend a Big 10 is nothing because everyone is set on Ivies my mom is forcing me to apply UMich so I’ll actually have a somewhat-reach school that offers my major AND is in a six hour driving range (I’m not allowed to apply to a college that’s no more than six hours away). I have no desire to apply/attend! Oh well.
Is anyone else seeing these threads of people (some more qualified than you) getting rejected from top schools and getting insanely scared???
@a20171 It’s scary but thrilling at the same time. This is how I imagine gambling feels. If admissions are truly holistic, then the entire college admissions process (sans the athletic prospects) is like the lottery. You have certain chances to get into different schools. A big mistake applicants make is assuming they can get into certain schools simply because of their GPA or perfect SAT/ACT score. They forget that there is more to the application process than that. A good applicant doesn’t necessarily need a fantastic GPA or standardized test. Your personality also needs to stand out to the applicants in your essay. People tend to blow off the essay and think that it’s not important, or they think that their essay was fantastic and doesn’t need a second opinion. Nope, wrong again.
So what am I saying out of that gigantic spiel I just typed? Forget what other CC people’s stats are, do you, keep your hopes high but not too high, and write some stellar college app essays – with your personality, at that – so you could be given at least a fighting chance next school year.