<p>“My friend got a full ride to Name-An-Ivy for name-a-sport.”</p>
<p>N. If you take one of the “lite” APs, such as AP Psychology or AP Environmental Science, you can kiss the top 20 schools goodbye – even if you plan to major in psychology or environmental science. Everybody who’s anybody knows that the only APs worthy of respect are Physics, Chemistry, BC Calculus, and possibly U.S. History.</p>
<p>1348765- My reach schools are HYP and my match schools are Columbia and Penn. Of course I have safety schools; Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell.</p>
<p>1348766- my recs are amazing, my teachers love me and my GC says I am one of the best students to ever come to my school.</p>
<p>1349867- Everyone knows that if student A has a 2400 on their SATs and a 3.98w/ 3.97 uw gpa and student B has 2390 on their sats and a 5.13 w/ 3.971 uw gpa which student is going to be admitted !!!</p>
<p>1349868, If your child doesn’t have a true passion by age 15, you’ve failed as a parent. Only remedial work in passion-production will suffice.</p>
<p>1349869, If your child attends a public high school…well, too bad for them.They’ll never get into a GOOD college.</p>
<p>1349870, If your child has only taken 10 AP courses, or - God forbid - 4 or 5 - instead of the requisite 20, he’s doomed. Everyone knows that one has to take ALL of the AP courses available.</p>
<p>1349871, If your child decides he’d rather take up the saxaphone than the oboe, he’s doomed. Everyone knows there are a shortage of college Oboe players, but saxophone players are just plain useless.</p>
<p>1349872, All of the colleges outside the Northeast are second-best. Colleges in the Midwest are the most suspect of all because, well, the midwest is so darned flat!</p>
<p>1349873, While there may be some perfectly good schools outside of the US News & World Report top 10, they’re only good enough for other people’s kids. None of them are good enough for my child.</p>
<p>1349874, If you don’t believe everything you read here and act upon it immediately, you are guilty of child abuse. The college admissions police will shortly be knocking on your door to haul you away.</p>
<p>^+1 Everyone here but me knows the secret handshake; the meaning of bump, 10chars, HYPMS, and DD; and exactly what goes on behind the doors of every top-20 admissions office.</p>
<p>Now we need the inevitable followup Thread: “. . . And Things One KNOWS after four Weeks on CC”</p>
<p>California has great state schools, especially USC!</p>
<p>It is just wrong to apply to less than 5 schools</p>
<p>If your kid is going to a state u because that’s what family can afford and he’s fine with that, somebody didn’t care enought to tell him he could do so much better.</p>
<p>Every child in your kid’s generation is going to be a Dr. or Lawyer or at the very least go to Grad. school for something important.</p>
<p>If your kid wants to major in something that will get him a job at the completion of undergrad, he must not be very intellectual.</p>
<p>Most important of all…your kid will never survive college without the perfect mattress topper, backpack, and outerwear for the freezing cold winters.</p>
<p>xxxxx- UCLA is no longer worth applying to now that it’s ranked 26th. Next year, if it breaks 25, it will be worth going to again.
xxxxx- UCSD is never ever right for anyone.
xxxxx- Only three UCs exist- UCB, UCLA, UCSD. The rest are lies. Horrible lies.
xxxxx- The only reason to go to a CSU is your abject stupidity.
xxxxx- If you don’t go to med school, law school, or b-school, you just couldn’t hack it.<br>
xxxxx- Anything less than $100K a year is a bad salary. $95K plus fantastic benefits < $100K + poor benefits, obviously.
xxxxx- If you work between undergrad and grad, you’ll never go back to school, your family will disown you, and you’ll die alone.</p>
<p>Number google: “Brouhaha” is not the name of a frequent poster on this forum! </p>
<p>I told my daughter she needed to develop a passion, and now she’s pregnant!</p>
<p>After only a week on CC I believed that any kid lucky enough to have a parent on the parent’s forum has a BIG (as in the equivalent of a 30,000 dollar consultant in your living room) advantage in all of this.</p>
<p>Yeah, NJres you really parented well; now she can definitely get into HYPS- she is a URPF (figure it out) and has a “hook”. I am sorry I need to add a 
in case there are actually some pregnant applicants lurking.</p>
<p>+++++1- My kid got 1450 on (old) SAT without studying. With prep he probably would have had 1550. Or higher.</p>
<p>~~~~~2- My kid only got 1450 because he has ADD.</p>
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<p>--------4- I really got screwed with my applications. After my 4.0 first year at Vanderbilt/Georgetown/Michigan what are my chances to transfer into HYPS?</p>
<h6>5- Do I stand ANY chance of becoming i-banker if I don’t go to HYPSM? Do they recruit at Amherst? Is my life be ruined?</h6>
<p>^^^^^6- You have a kid who joined a fraternity?? What’s wrong with him?</p>
<p>If you have a college interview at a restaurant, do not drool or order wine. Do not go to the wrong restaurant on the wrong date. Do not ask the interviewer in advance if they look like anyone on American Idol. Do not order a latte if the interviewer drinks hot chocolate…</p>
<p>Clever movement of financial assets, made before your kid is a second semester Junior, will cause your EFC to drop to $1000.</p>
<p>I told my daughter she needed to develop a passion, and now she’s pregnant!>></p>
<p>Should make a terrific admissions essay topic. :)</p>
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<p>I’m here to tell you all…you may as well play the sax…there is NO edge in admissions for oboe players (I speak from experience!!).</p>
<p>Now…tuba or bassoon…? Well, maybe. Oh…harp. If you’re willing to bring your own to the school with you.</p>
<p>…that the only truly worthwhile thread on CC is Sinner’s Alley</p>
<p>“I told my daughter she needed to develop a passion, and now she’s pregnant!”</p>
<p>omg lol NJres</p>
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<li><p>USC is a school for idiot frat boys. Just ask any UCLA empolyee.</p></li>
<li><p>The only reason to pay $160K for a college degree is if it will increase your child’s future salary. College Education = More Wealth!</p></li>
<li><p>Our children are most certainly NOT doing the crazy drugs, sex and rock n’ roll that we did! Heaven forbid it!</p></li>
<li><p>International teachers love the American style of recommendation; ie the art of the ‘soft sell’. They love America in general. They are thrilled to see your American child get the chance to experience a $160K education.</p></li>
<li><p>So and so’s child hasn’t taken the SATs yet, but he is going to Stanford.</p></li>
<li><p>So and so’s child is going to MIT but I don’t think he will be able to change planes at O’Hare.</p></li>
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<li> Adding to Cheers: Child is going to MIT but does not know which button to push on the washing machin or how to measure detergent. That’s why we’re planning to throw away the bedding at the end of the year and in the meantime, investing in Febreeze.</li>
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