Things One Believes After a Week on CC

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<p>I’m not even a parent but I just want to say that this is likely the funniest thread I have ever seen on CC, period. Who knew parents were so amazingly amusing?</p>

<p>Some things from the Student forums:</p>

<p>-If you are a URM or have some other desirable hook, you can’t play all the games in the Ivy League forums because NOBODY LIKES YOU.</p>

<p>-If you haven’t visited every school you’re applying to, you are wasting your time.</p>

<p>-If you haven’t read Michele Hernandez’s books, you are definitely not going to get into ANY school because you don’t know how things work.</p>

<p>-If you have read Michele Hernandez’s books, you are definitely not going to get into ANY school either because you were silly enough to believe everything she said.</p>

<p>-If you are white but from Egypt, you can count yourself African American.</p>

<p>-If you are white but from Egypt, there is no way you can count yourself African American.</p>

<p>-If you post your stats in 10 individual school forums on the same day, you are obviously greedy and will become a pariah. </p>

<p>-If your college essays are not started and completed by the first week of summer after your junior year, you might as well just give up because you will never have time to finish.</p>

<p>-If you are ever in the mood to start a fight, start a thread about AA. </p>

<p>-If you take AP instead of IB, you will be considered a conformist and ignorant and certainly not a member of the global intellectual community. If you take IB instead of AP, you obviously cannot handle the rigor of a real curriculum. If you take both, you are living for admissions officers.</p>

<p>-If you respond to your own threads with “bump (10 chars)” for long enough, somebody will eventually answer you.</p>

<p>-The logical thing to in response to NY Magazine’s Super-Applicants article is to rate them on a basis of attractiveness (see Princeton forum). </p>

<p>I could go on forever…but seriously parents, sorry for jumping on this where I’m probably not supposed to be but all the things ya’ll said were way too hilarious to ignore.</p>

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<p>j07- you are certainly welcome to post here and we appreciate your input. That is hilarious about rating the applicants from the article on the basis of attractiveness.</p>

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<p>On the internet, no one knows you’re a teenager.</p>

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<li><p>Out of the oft-mentioned 20-25 schools worth going to, most are Ivys or LACs…everyone should go to these schools, or not bother going anywhere at all.</p></li>
<li><p>There is no reason to borrow $100,000 to attend an expensive prestigious school, when your local state university is just fine. In fact, everyone should go to their state university and save lots of unnecessarily-spent money.</p></li>
<li><p>You should not choose schools just based on prestige or something else ridiculously unimportant like that, you should choose them based solely on “fit”.</p></li>
<li><p>Opportunities like studying abroad and internships are a great way to learn outside the classroom…everyone should participate in them. Preferably at least 3 times. Each.</p></li>
<li><p>All students in NJ attend small, competitive private schools located in a rich suburb. The rest of the state is just a figment of your imagination.</p></li>
<li><p>We all know that “study abroad” is a euphemism for “vacation in Europe financed by parents” and those internships are really you playing solitaire all day long in a family friend’s office, so there’s no need to mention them. You’re not impressing anyone.</p></li>
<li><p>Everyone else is smarter than you, more talented at whatever than you, and harder working than you. You should probably just give up and stay home.</p></li>
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<p>I think that just about sums it up.</p>

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<p>Misconceptions of CC (all which I obviously disagree with)
"Everyone who goes to a state school (excluding UVA, Berkley, and UMich [to an extent]) is a binge drinking, football manic slacker who is never in a class with less than 500 people.</p>

<p>If you don’t go a LAC, your professors will never know who you are.</p>

<p>People with high SATs and low (or average or perfect) GPAs are truly intelligent and will suceed in college, but people with better GPAs than SAT scores are grade-grubbers who will crash and burn college.</p>

<p>People with physical disabilities face no discrimination, add to no diversity to a school, and don’t deserve any consideration in admissions."</p>

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<p>How about a thread for things everyone NOT on CC believes? Like “Oh, your kid is sooo smart, he’s sure to get a scholarship!” Yeah, right.</p>

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<p>Actually, I think if you have a near perfect SAT and a soso (3.3-3.5ish GPA) you are pretty damn smart, but do not work hard enough in school to earn admissions to an Ivy League based on scores. If you have a 4.0 GPA and a soso SAT (1900-2100) then you are very hard working but not as smart. The latter applicant will put fort the hours to succeed in college and even if s/he is not smart enough to understand everything at first glance, will work his/her hardest ot succeed. The former applicant has the brains, but an adcom will need to decide whether s/he is a slacker who could care less about grades, or just not challenged in high school and did not do well on BS assignments like busy work and poster presentations (in lieu of essays and reports).<br>
(defending a friend with a high SAT and low GPA but is a real slacker)</p>

<p>Now that I got that out of the way… Another thing to add would be:</p>

<p>I go to a competitive school. We send one kid to the Ivys.</p>

<p>I have a 2350 SAT and a 3.99 GPA, I wont get into my safety because I’m Asian and will lose out to a million other Asians with 2400s and 4.0s.</p>

<p>Chances threads work really well for Ivys where the bulk of your chances rests with the subjective stuff instead of the pure SAT/GPA numbers.</p>

<p>Can I use my common app essay for UChicago?</p>

<p>You can apply ED, not matriculate, and nothing will happen, i.e. you will not be black balled at other colleges.</p>

<p>If AA was taken away, 99% of URM seats would go to Asians. Not whites, URMs, legacies, or any other group, just Asians. Therefore, AA is a way to discriminate against Asians as a minority to keep them from going to college.</p>

<p>Didn’t cure cancer, solve world hunger, create world peace, and play for an MLB team over your summer vacation? You have no shot at any of the top 25 colleges and shouldn’t even bother looking at an Ivy.</p>

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<p>Sounds like my mom’s constant “But of course you’d get into an Ivy League school, you have almost all As! It’d be too expensive though, I bet they don’t ever give anyone any money, so don’t bother.” Good thing I didn’t find this site until sophomore year or so, or I’d have been mighty confused.</p>

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<p>MOWC, Thanks for starting this thread and providing a good laugh. When I started my day on the other side of the world many of my most cherished beliefs had already mentioned but let me add:</p>

<h1>XXX If I don’t like your politics I don’t much like your kid’s college either.</h1>

<p>Corollary: If you agree with me (and frequently toss me bones, like “good post, Momrath!” ) your kid’s school moves up on my list.</p>

<h1>XXXX If you hestitate before punching the “post” button because your message may be too aggressive, too whiny, too biased, too anything, it probably is.</h1>

<p>I wish one of those super organizers that housekeep the master admissions threads would make a cumulative list here.</p>

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<p>LOL. Good post , momrath!</p>

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<p>Uhh, forget CC.</p>

<p>This is what you come to believe after a week in Montgomery County.</p>

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<p>*** Girls are much smarter than boys. They take college much more seriously.***</p>

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<p>J07 - many of those are classic!</p>

<p>Hi, Curmudge.</p>

<p>Back to the regularly scheduled thread</p>

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<li><p>the usnews ranking is the gospel of college rankings</p></li>
<li><p>you will be humiliated and your life will be over if you dont go to a top 10 school</p></li>
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<p>-going to a liberal arts school is a waste of time and money</p>

<p>-going to a school that not everyone in your town has heard of is a waste of time and money</p>

<p>-going to a liberal arts school and/or a school that your baby sister hasnt heard of means you will never get into med/law/grad school and your job will pay you $6 an hour</p>

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<p>Boys are much smarter than girls. Deliberate, systematic opression by female teachers destroys their natural high spirits.</p>

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<p>If your child grew up in a nice family without any hardships to overcome, s/he is doomed to state school.</p>

<p>I heard from someone that somebody with lackluster stats got a free ride somewhere DD/S might be interested in applying. What are my chances?</p>

<p>Before college, parents are dumb and can’t possibly know anything useful or have opinions worth listening to. After college, could I live at home for awhile as I extend my search for the perfect job?</p>

<p>My stats and ECs are interesting and relevant to everyone else.</p>

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<li>Anyone who is interested in theater or the arts has a sexual identity issue.</li>
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<p>*Anyone who is interested in a single sex institution also has a sexual identity issue or is blatantly homosexual.</p>

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<p>this has got to be one of the funniest threads EVER :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
thanks mowc and everyone !!!</p>

<p>#XXX EVERYONE might ALWAYS want to take a look at Holy Cross !!!</p>

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<p>1,000: Call the admissions office; they’ll be glad to help.</p>