Getting into College Camp?

[Kitten]

This is ridiculous... how to get into a good college: take the 3000 you were going to spend on "getting-into-college camp" and do something excting. Travel somewhere and write and essay about it. Start a community service organization. Do something!!!

What a waste of money... unless you have family connections or are of Cherokee-Ghanian-Hispanic descent, a perfect SAT score and perfectly written essay are no guarantee you'll get into an Ivy League school. You have to be somewhat unusual, need something to make you stand out admist thousands of applicants...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/e...&en=42f6b2cd87779155&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND

 

[crimresearch]

"You have to be somewhat unusual, need something to make you stand out admist thousands of applicants."

That's why it is soooo important, to get into the right high school, where cheerleading and class offices will give you that all important 4.5 GPA.

And it never hurts to call your 10 page paper your 'senior thesis', or your 'dissertation', and refer to your high school teachers as 'Professor', 'my major professor', and 'department chair' or 'Dean'.

Slippping a few Glamour Shots photos into the application packet, or even better a video of you talking about yourself, (being sure to include the words 'work for world peace'...), and if at all possible, get Mummy and Daddy to pay for one of those uberkewl SAT prep courses that print the answers in code on the side of a #2 pencil, and who needs to waste a perfectly good summer studying?

Bitsi

 

[kittynh]

geez Kitten, I thought you just got into every college you applied to and accepted to the Naval Academy because you went to a high school that DIDN'T have cheerleaders, and also didn't grade inflate. Did you know that top colleges have a list of what a grade really means from any given school? Also, those 5 AP classes you took didn't hurt either. Or could you be you are a top ranked womans slalom kayak racer in New England or that your exchange program was sponsored by and paid for by the King of Jordan? If it was just grades and SATs I'm afraid that Kitten would NOT have got in her colleges of choice. They were ok, but they weren't the top. Any other school of course would have given her top grades, but she wanted to go to a school where not everyone makes the honor roll. Believe it of not, what most schools want is a student that is a hard worker, and is motivated. If you can prove that you can think that is also nice.


Here's something. When we went up to the big over crowded informational meeting about Dartmouth, we were in a room with over 100 parents and wanna be students. They have these meetings several times a day. They start off by telling you your chances of getting in are slim. Then had a question and answer session at the end. Parent after parent asked questions. Kitten was the only child who asked a question (if I remember it was 2). She then went up afterward to speak to the Dartmouth reps. You could just see their eyes light up, I stood back and let her do the asking. One of the main reasons she got top marks from the Naval Academy is that she picked up other peoples trash at lunch. Don't laugh, they are always watching. It's the little things that set you apart. your character comes across in your actions.