Pre-med books

torrestowers
Sun, 15 May 2005 12:12:10 +0000

wow! it was a joke… the only reason i wasn’t going to put the link to the website wasn’t because i don’t think that other people shouldn’t be helped, it is just because sometimes I find it annoying that there are so many people on this website that are so worried about whether the B+ that they got in 4th grade is going to affect their chances of getting into Harvard. And to the post about how everyone on this website is trying to help one another, are you sure about that? I remember when I came to this website, i actually did post my stats to ask whether the other ccers think that I could get into UNC, UVA, or Rice. I am not one of those people who had 1600 SATS, Valedictorian, 2000 volunteering hours, I was a person with a (relatively) low SAT 1250 (eventually a 1300) good GPA 4.24 at the time, and good ecs. Now the helpful members of ALL told me that I would hava a hard time getting into any of these schools. Pretty much that these were all huge reaches for me. None of them said that I should not apply, but it seemed kinda inferred. So anyway I got into all of these schools. Pretty much if I had listened to the other CCers I would not have bothered to apply and would be at U of A (not a bad school but not a school I want to go to).

The whole thing about the website was just that as I was looking through their website, I found the message boards incredibly helpful, as well as the big guide on the website. The only reason that I was “not going to help other CCers” by telling them the link was because I have seen many of the posts on this website and they seem really useless (like the ones about whether an applicant has a good chance at “blank” university). Heck, I have posted some stupid threads also. I know that there are other really good, informative threads here too. I am just saying that I think the website is probably as good as it is because it isn’t full of people asking questions about needless things. that is just my opinion (I have not actually gone through each thread on that website). i am sure that I probably offended a whole bunch of people with this post. And I get the impression from previous posts that people that read this website cannot be told anything bluntly without getting their feelings hurt. So i am probably going to stop coming to this website because it kinda has outlived its usefulness to me.