<p>She wants to go to harvard. She made a 31 on the act this time.
She got soo depressed and stuff.</p>
<p>Now she swears to god she wont leave her house until she gets it to a 34.
Like she said no more goofin off and more studying</p>
<p>I’ve never seen a more heartbroken person. She was seriously seriously sad over it.</p>
<p>How DO i cheer her up?
And please no MEAN suggestions. She means a lot to me.</p>
<p>how long does she have to get it up? If she has a little while tell her not to sweat it. Also, try to get her to look at the bright side of her score, because a 31 (even if it isn’t harvard) is still REALLY impressive. Maybe you could try to get her interested in other upper level schools besides Harvard to keep her from stressing over it. Distract her. Force her to leave her house and go do something fun. Try to take the pressure off her. </p>
<p>On the other hand, though, if she’s the kinda person like me who doesn’t like being cheered up, then just let her wallow in it and she’ll get over it eventually. She sounds like a perfectionist/someone who is afraid of failure, so she could just be stressing about that. She’ll probably work it out on her own and be reasonably fine in a month or so. Give it time</p>
<p>Something like this sorta happened to me and my boyfriend once (just on a smaller scale) My ACT was a 30 and he took it (as a sophomore) and only got a 26. He was really bummed about it (he wanted to do as good as I did), but I just made him look at happy things until he got over it.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks!</p>
<p>A 31 composite puts her in the 97th percentile. 32 is 98th, and 33 is 99th.</p>
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<p>I would answer your question, if it actually contained any truth. But she didn’t get a low ACT score. So she needs to get over being better than only 97% of everyone else.</p>
<p>People out there are getting 12s.</p>
<p>Are you a guy? If so, make her feel a little happier. ;)</p>
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<p>75% of people entering Harvard beat her. Don’t waste time trying to be nice… tell her to study.</p>
<p>On the other hand, 25% didn’t. That could be reassuring (i.e that her scores are not * that * low - not even for harvard).</p>
<p>That 25% is probably made up of URMs, athletes, and legacies. I don’t see why you guys are trying to cheer her up… she’s just being realistic.</p>
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This is pretty messed up. She needs some perspective.</p>
<p>Tell her about the people starving in the streets, the people dying unloved, the children murdered without remorse, the homeless abandoned by society. Tell her of atrocities around the world and how lucky and privileged she is to live where and how and when she does.</p>
<p>Then ask her if her 97th percentile score is really that bad.</p>
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<p>heartbrokeness is sad though, no one should feel like that. Perspective is important too (being realistic), but perhaps not at this moment.</p>
<p>I don’t think your friend is ready for college. It’s ridiculously immature, in my opinion, to be that upset over a 31 on the ACT.</p>
<p>No offense, but if she takes one test score badly she’s going to be totally *<strong><em>ed for next year when she has to apply/gets her letters. Not to mention being *</em></strong>ed for life too. Life is full of disappointment and rejection–everyone faces it. You have a choice: you can live it to the fullest or can choose to go into hiding somewhere and not live it at all.</p>
<p>Tell her she’s not alone, but that it’s life and she’d do better to focus on other aspects of her application–EC’s, grades, and a little more practice—than to become standardized test-obsessed. Seriously. Take it from someone who knows, it’s just a waste of time to obsess.</p>
<p>Tell her that a 31 compared to a 34 is not that much of a difference since alot of people with perfects still get rejected from Harvard.</p>
<p>She probably won’t get into Harvard anyway.</p>
<p>I would have loved to have gotten a 31 :P</p>
<p>Tell her that scores are not everything. I got into Penn, another amazing Ivy League, with a 31 ACT and 2030 SAT. Her whole application needs to shine, so spend the effort over that. I assume she is a junior, and in that case, she has the whole summer and potentially two more opportunities next year to retake it. If she is really upset, suggest she gets a test tutor over the summer. A 31 is a fantastic score and there is so much more to life than numbers. Also, she should check out other top schools because Harvard undergrad is overrated.</p>