On the same note, I've talked to several friends about college in these past couple days (SATs are now a topic now that we are juniors) and some friends with 3.5-ish GPAs in honors (not ap) classes are planning on applying to all the ivies and they mock me for my preoccupation with hard classes/activities. I've just been on CC and understand how hard it is to get into college.
But then I look into my school.. and realize that around 5% of each class at my school ends up at an ivy, stanford, or MIT. That's a HUGE number, considering very few people in my school seem so amazing. I mean there are the sparkles in each grade- but nobody is truly spectacular the way CC expects people to be. But yet, they still got into amazing schools. I don't understand why that is. Now I'm afraid it's reverse affirmative action and well... I'm asian.
But still, 5% of my class (300) is 15 students. I feel somewhat confident that I'm within the top 15 students academically and EC-wise. Does that mean I have a really good shot? Not by CC standards. I'm so confused.
btw. all my post titles are song titles by The Fray :)
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haha nice, thematic post titles ;]
I wouldn't worry about your chances to get into an Ivy; for example, Cornell is fairly easy to get into. It's just HYPS that sucks so much. There was this one year where we (omg!) sent 20ish kids to ivies (that's HALF yours), and a good number of them weren't in the top 20 academically, at least.
Just don't worry about it. Do you best in your classes, stay with your ECs and research, and you should be fine.
Me on the other hand...I got a 70 on my first US quiz, hahahaha
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