<p>I’ll have to agree with Mintie and Roam here. I love the snow and want to stay in the northeast yet in no way do I want to attend the state school. (my gpa there sucks. Plus, half my school goes there since everyone gets a free ride and they love greasetrucks too much. Don’t ask what greasetrucks is please.) Wait, roam, when you say state school do you mean just rutgers or rutgers and tcnj (which seems very well represented in my school this year.) </p>
<p>Jenny chicago still has a good acceptance rate and I doubt you’ll be rejected. You are perfect for them. In any case, Mich is still an amazing school. </p>
<p>Corey, don’t say you want to go to Columbia/NYU just because they’re in NY. They’re totally different and Columbia is not really the NY people think of. It’s very secluded from everything else (although I must admit I wouldn’t think twice about living in the upper west side, but that’s just me). I always seem to compare Columbia and NYU to Haagen Daaz and Ben and Jerrys, and then my friends seem to demand an explanation because they get too confused.=) I love making up nonsensical analogies.</p>
<p>Indeed. Haagen Daaz and Ben and Jerry’s are quite different.</p>
<p>And easy A’s are no fun! My favorite classes this year were the ones I actually had to work in, haha. My easiest A was in math class and that was a pooper class where I did work for other classes. My second easiest A was in French (actually I almost got a B because I slacked off and did work in other classes - oops!) and I hated that class because it was the boringest class ever. On the other hand, Lit and APUSH I practically died in, yet they were the most fun :)</p>
<p>I’m actually kind of excited to get a D-! To be on the brink of failure, oh my! What an adventure :)</p>
<p>Well, Corey’s mom got a D- and Corey’s mom is a genius who threw away acceptance letters to Northwestern and Georgetown, and sabotaged her chances at Yale and Harvard, so how could I possibly not?</p>
<p>And I agree Karen. I hate when like 5 posts show up between your post and the post you’re responding to. Actually I kind of like it, because it means that everybody is being an active poster :)</p>
<p>Haha actually I got a D- once because my lit teacher gave one to me for fun (on a progress report). Then my parents saw it and they freaked out </p>
<p>It was funny. Now my lit teacher is sad because she thinks my parents think she’s stupid or something for making such a mistake (even though it wasn’t a mistake. There’s no way she could tell them that it was for fun, though, haha).</p>
<p>actually, I think there’s something to be said about this thread. I think we’re the only people that are down to earth. I mean, everyone else on this site would be like “I got a B+, are my chances ruined!” And here we are just laughing off our “seemingly” horrible stats. </p>
<p>Oh my goodness, I absolutely despise those “I got a B+, would _______ still accept me” threads. It’s already been done, so why bother asking? Same thing with chance threads, lol.</p>
<p>lol perfect accurate descreption of my mom. (Not joking :-P)</p>
<p>I see what you mean Karen. In terms of NYC, I think NYU and Eugene Lang are similar and more my type… That being said I think Columbia offers a lot of good opportunities and has the best of both worlds.</p>
<p>i will see when I visit… I am so excited for that trip. Cousins and family in Brooklyn, colleges in the city, AIDA in Providence. good times</p>
<p>My mom:
Lol yeah so she did throw away her chances at Harvard and Yale. So the high school my mom went to for Frosh-junior was the school colleges “looked” at as coming from their pool not Andover (Senior year she went to Andover) so at that HS the 3rd ranked student always got into Yale because there was this super legacy family thats kids always ended up 3rd in the class and they had a kid every other year, so my mom was 3rd in her class on an off year there and they sent her like personalized letters and had someone from Yale come to Andover to meet with her and all this stuff trying to ge ther to go there. But she just didn’t answer the last essay, so her app was incomplete.</p>
<p>Harvard she just dressed up ridiculously for the interview and said she didn’t want to go to school there straight to her interviewer’s face</p>
<p>She admits now that Yale would probably been the best place… Like she picked Chicago over Wesleyan because the deposit was cheaper and she wasn’t talking to her parents so she had to pay for it out of her pocket.</p>
<p>This all stemmed out from her rebellious nature, that her parents wouldn’t let her visit any schools she wanted to, and that my Gparents moved my mom her Junior summer to MA from Conn. and she was ****ed at them. She actually applied to Andover and got in before her parents even knew.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh you guys. I just got my very first B in high school…in track and field. How pathetic is that? Very. I deserved it, yes, because stupid parents forced me to not attend half the practices. But still. I feel sad now. And I have a crappy schedule for next year. Worst teachers ever.</p>
I’d think MOST people would want an easy A. :P</p>
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We love ourselves for who we are in person, not who we are in a chances thread :D</p>