When people with excellent grades deride themselves...

PMCM18
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:25:33 +0000

If they’re obviously doing it to fish for compliments/make you feel bad, you tell them that Harvard turns away literally thousands of 4.0 GPA + 2400 SAT kids (you can also show them some of the CC rejects for good measure) and would never deign themselves to accept an inferior being the likes of a 3.9 GPA + 2350 SAT. Then you hand them a brochure for Cornell (because such people are probably the type to deride it as the “lower Ivy”, however undeserved and stupid the phrase) and wish them luck getting a job in McDonalds after graduating from such a “lowly” institution.