<p>well said, 10 char</p>
<p>probaly the best thread i have ever read on CC!
…and I’m not just saying that!</p>
<p>4.0-</p>
<p>I assume you’re talking about me when you say: “all these people on here who are happy about their 1900 score because it’s above average at their school, when they didn’t put effort in it, are stupid.”</p>
<p>I think you’re the stupid one. Are you implying that I should feel bad about my score? I don’t feel great about it, but I’m fine with a 1920 because it got me into UNC Chapel Hill, which is where I wanted to attend. Why should I dwell on the fact that I didn’t study? I didn’t study because I had three AP classes at one time, I played tennis, and I had a volunteer position. </p>
<p>So, Mr. “4.0”, do NOT call me stupid for being happy about a score that is not only above average at my school, but is also above the national average.</p>
<p>@Forever LSU:</p>
<p>Are you serious???!?!?? Making 100k/year is a damn good salary. Holy **** son, you must be spoiled to the bone if you would complain about that. the majority of Americans would kill to have that salary. Yea, you get taxed heavily, but you can afford it, as long as you don’t live above your means. </p>
<p>@ The people who are complaining at this thread:</p>
<p>This thread is not to tear down those who are high achieving, it is to tell those people to stop complaining about their scores/gpa. Stop acting like your not going to go to college because of one “B”.</p>
<p>blairb91 epically failed!</p>
<p>Socal-</p>
<p>According to THAT guy!</p>
<p>I’d venture that quite a few CC posters lie about their averages.</p>
<p>Why are you all assuming that CC posters never lie??</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>who? sorry guys, i skip pages! :P</p>
<p>@Jemtime</p>
<p>I’d agree. Its very tempting to bump up your GPA or stats because you’re afraid to hear from someone that you chances are low. If you want to boost your selfesteem, go to collegeboard and plug in your stats to the college finder and watch as it spits back UPENN, BC, Brown etc… for your 3.5 and 1800s SAT scores</p>
<p>Becoming ridiculous?</p>
<p>Hasn’t always been like this?</p>
<p>The only real solution, outside of lecturing, is to not read what you don’t like. I never go into the Chances section and avoid reading “What are my Chances into HYPS, I only have a 4.0 and 35 ACT” threads, at least not while taking them seriously. They’re good for ****s and giggles, but that’s it.</p>
<p>“So, Mr. “4.0”, do NOT call me stupid for being happy about a score that is not only above average at my school, but is also above the national average.” </p>
<p>That’s not what 4.0 is calling you stupid for. 4.0 is right.</p>
<p>630 X 3 = 1890</p>
<p>630 CR = top 15%
630 math = top 18%
630 Writing = top 13%</p>
<p>Kei</p>
<p>blairb91, I can’t speak for 4.0, but I’m quite sure the point he/she was trying to make was that he doesn’t like it when people brag about getting above average scores without having studied because he sees them as having wasted their potential.</p>
<p>I’m not even sure he was directly referring to you because it’s not clear (to me at least) that you ever bragged about having not studied.</p>
<p>becoming ridiculous…</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>mephist0 beat me to that ><</p>
<p><em>just realized this thread is 9 pages long =o</em></p>
<p>I think OP exaggerated an isolated aspect of CC. Nevertheless, some of first replies were quite typical, though rarely seen together in the forums.</p>
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If one looks at forum posting stats, one realizes that rate my chances threads are minority, and even though significant in absolute count, they have a lower views-to-posts ratio than good discussions in College Life or Parents forums.</p>
<p>
In real life stats are used a lot, whether you like them or not: physical test for military includes objective performance requirements, bonuses are often contingent on achievement of certain goals (revenue, items sold, productivity, earnings increase, share price etc.). There will never be such a system in which everyone gets Harvard-like education meanwhile Harvard-like education remain as prestigious and distinguished as today.</p>
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If getting senioritis is an acceptable excuse for getting a lower GPA and if it shouldnt count towards college admission, then I think whomever agrees with these statement should have its admission rescinded! Honestly, since when slacking off in senior year is excusable, let alone acceptable?</p>
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They are telling such things because there are WAY TOO MANY students applying to them than their available spots! For the second part, it is called LIFE: most aspiring actors/actresses will never make it through Hollywood, most aspiring musicians will never be able to sustain themselves financially with music revenues, most aspiring pilots will never get into the gris on the speedway. Elite and selective positions (as spots in Ivy) are elite and selective for a reason!</p>
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If average American HS student was like average prospective college student in CC, 90% of educational concerns and problems of Americas education would not exist. One can argue that 40 pts. difference between SAT scores of two applicants is too low to determine who gets in and who gets out, but Im totally confident that comparing a random bunch of 1800-range HS students with a random bunch of 1000-range HS students will reveal CLEAR differences between their abilities, general knowledge and culture.</p>
<p>
Thats the Bill Gates paradox: for each millionaire, genius and extraordinary gifted drop-out, there are thousands of impoverished and enrolled on welfare rolls ones.</p>
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Unless we were living in a communist-like State, thats not true. People dont end up with the same jobs. Some drop-outs end up with extremely well paid positions and became owners of large companies; some extremely well educated people end up flipping burgers; chances, though, are more in favor of those who have a degree. Regarding trades, sure some of them can be financially rewarding, but the myth that everyone could make a good and easy living off a trade profession is as misleading as the myth that a bachelor degree is a receipt for financial success, big house and nice car. If trades were so rewarding requiring so little effort to practice, demand-and-supply law would have been taken care of those excessive returns swiftly.</p>
<p>Hmm… I think people here are pretty realistic about whether or not someone’s chances are good. Some people NEED that slap in the face. It should be here rather than an overconfident person getting rejected from every school he wanted to get into because all his schools were reaches. Granted, some people are way too harsh - stating things meaner than they need be, but still its the truth</p>
<p>You have a (good) point there.</p>
<p>What I get, from most threads, is that people underestimate their reasonable expectations regarding Ivy and other superselective universities, while often overestimating chances in universities that have, still, an admission rate lower than 50 or say, 60%, and regard them as safeties. I guess this usually is related to an attitude like: “this is the school my average classmates would atend; I’m well aboverage (HS-wide) therefore my average classmate’s school is my safety”.</p>
<p>Exactly europegrad… I think what the major flaw in high school is that students do not realize that they are so small in the world, even if they are in a school of thousands. They are competing against so many applicants. They cannot compare what they are familiar with being the standard of “excellence” with other standards.</p>
<p>The world is so big and college is really the thing that should open one’s eyes. </p>
<p>While this forum definitely has very harsh people, it also has people who WANT to and are WILLING to help. Just listen to the people who make sense and ignore the others.</p>