<p>If you go to one of these, you know the deal. It’s usually attached to a college campus. You have to take the SSAT to get in. The number of students is painfully small, and your social life is bogged down by honors classes and the sheer enormity of unfriendly egotistical classmates. You stress out more about your grades than your parents do and break down if you get anything lower than a 92 on an exam. Sound familiar? </p>
<p>As a student at one of these schools with 1 and a half years to go (and we all know junior year is the craziest). How do you rate your experience?</p>
<p>My school definitely qualifies. The competitiveness is crazy, sometimes to the point that it’s funny. Just a couple weeks ago, one girl was bawling because she received a 72% on her Biology test. She was literally gasping for air.</p>
<p>^ I recently got a 78 on an AP Calc test (first C on any exam in any class of my academic career), and everyone acted like I had meningitis…or AIDS…or something haha. They either avoided me like the plague, or asked me questions like “Are you feeling, ok? That must be tough for you…” :D</p>
<p>Everyone who goes to Princeton has some element of nerdiness deep inside them, even if they try to hide it…unless their daddy donated a billion dollars to the school library…</p>
<p>Especially after finding out that a friend of mine has a 91 overall average, and was ranked around 100. I didn’t care these past two years, so God knows where I am ranked. 200? 300? Yeah. It’s bad. </p>
<p>I sacked three classes this quarter, too - Math, Accounting and Chemistry. Got an 84 in Math - Lowest ever and completely threw away my 96+ average. Accounting, scored an 80. And I got two 75s in chem. Let’s just say - I need to crank out 100s from here on out.</p>
<p>I was invited to go to the most prestigious nerd school in Louisiana but I turned it down because I thought I couldn’t be away from my family. I hate it now that I did it but what can ya do.</p>
<p>I guess my school might be considered half way there. One does have to take a test, though not the SSAT to get in, and I’ve been in almost all Honors or AA or AP classes since 9th grade (it’s a 6 year high school). And of course, this junior year, I have massive amounts of work. But I dunno, it’s pretty okay. You get used to the amount of work and come to see it as normal or you leave, either voluntarily or through “encouragement” since we technically can’t kick people out anymore or something like that.</p>
<p>Actually, it is what you learn that matters rather than your GPA, SATs or what college you get admitted to. College admissions folks are also pretty savvy and do understand that not all GPAs are equal.</p>