Hi all,
This pretty off-topic but would greatly appreciate feedback. I recall there being a lot of young folks on this forum (some just a few years out of high school). I am wondering whether any of you used a college admissions consultant and/or where you routinely looked for info on college admissions. any particular boards or chat rooms where you discussed admissions? Thanks!
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collegeconfidential . com is by far the most popular. My favorite thing on the sight is where applicants post their stats (from test scores to essay topics) and then their admission result. This gave me a ton of insight. Unless you're insanely rich, I don't think any college admission consultant would be worth it. But honestly, top-tier schools are all crap shoots, think of it as a lottery in which you can increase the number of tickets based on your stats.
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collegeconfidential is filled with overprotective mothers whose children most definitely hate their fucking guts and little mouthbreathers whose first names most definitely end in "-ER"
Lol ... almost as bad as white trash who use a President's last name for their kid's first name
If I was about to graduate high school I would seriously consider not going to college and starting a company. With the insane levels of PC and limits to the 1st amendment that are happening on college campuses now you really can't learn anything worth learning. College is supposed to be just as much about learning how to think as well as learning more advanced information. Now it is pretty much. Here's a book read it and email the TA if you have any questions because I am afraid to talk for fear that the transhumanist gender studies sophomore who is taking my class just to try and prove her theory on the patriarchy being a real conspiracy will report me for saying "trigger words" to the board of the university and my tenure will be revoked. So yea have fun at college being accused of creating a "threatening environment" by simply being a man on a college campus in this day and age.
Sure some of that might be a slight overstating of reality but it's pretty damn close if the stories in college newspapers are to be believed.
If this kids asking this, it's not all that likely that he can start a company.
I wasn't directing it at the OP only, just saying in general. It would be something I would seriously consider much more so than I did when I graduated from HS.
College Confidential is a fraction of what it used to be. It's been saturated with overeager, one dimensional high school kids and stay at home moms. The thing with college admissions is that it's more dependent on your region and particular high school than anything else. You can't expect your extracurricular activities to compare to that of some kid at Andover or some kid in rural Kansas. You're better off befriending current seniors and recent alumni and asking what they did and what their stats were like (e.g. a 2300 SAT from NYC for HYP is pretty run of the mill, but from rural Ohio it's probably stellar). Their standardized test prep forums are pretty solid, however.
Best piece of advice is to stay off this forum and College Confidential as much as possible unless you're looking for specific information. You're way too young and malleable to get sucked up into the one dimensional nature of these things (think about how people are idiotically obsessed with "prestige" they can't even define).
Get solid grades, do cool things, and be a leader. Don't neglect your social skills either -- they matter more than you think since they ooze into other, more "useful" skills, activities, and traits, even in college admissions.
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