I want to go to the absolute most prestigious private school i can get into.

"I want to go to the absolute most prestigious private school i can get into because I am a spoiled brat and an arrogant prick who has to compensate for my small and meaningless life, lack of any redeeming quality as a human being, and mostly, my teeny tiny dick."

There. I fixed your thread title for you.

What are ex circulars? Things that were formerly circular?

Please, for f**ks sakes, get someone to proof-read any application you send in to any university. I am not being pedantic here. I'm serious.

Only legit mistake i saw was that i left out "school" - "i go to a pretty good school"- Ex Circulars stands for (Extra Circular Activities), would've saved a lot of time to just write it out in the first place...

I think you have a good chance of being accepted at your local community college. Good luck.

Op wrote:

Only legit mistake i saw was that i left out "school" - "i go to a pretty good school"- Ex Circulars stands for (Extra Circular Activities), would've saved a lot of time to just write it out in the first place...

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Oh that's comedy gold right there. GOLD I tell ya.

I can't decide if you're trolling or if you really are that fvcking stupid.

ShowStopper wrote:

What are the best private schools i could be accepted/recruited at.

Grades: I go to a pretty good, although not nationally recognized-Although they think they are.

Class rank- 70/320-Due to really bad grades freshman year

TRack and XC: Assume this year i run 4:10, 9:15, and a 15:30 in xc(5k).

and solid ex circulars.

Ask me if y'all have any more questions-and Thanks!

Didn't include how rich your parents are or your ethnicity, complete waste of time.

ShowStopper wrote:

What are the best private schools i could be accepted/recruited at.

Grades: I go to a pretty good, although not nationally recognized-Although they think they are.

Class rank- 70/320-Due to really bad grades freshman year

TRack and XC: Assume this year i run 4:10, 9:15, and a 15:30 in xc(5k).

and solid ex circulars.

Ask me if y'all have any more questions-and Thanks!

Academics aside, did you get any offers from major universities to recruit you?

im an azzhole wrote:

[quote]Op wrote:

Only legit mistake i saw was that i left out "school" - "i go to a pretty good school"- Ex Circulars stands for (Extra Circular Activities), would've saved a lot of time to just write it out in the first place...

im an azzhole wrote:

Op wrote:

Only legit mistake i saw was that i left out "school" - "i go to a pretty good school"- Ex Circulars stands for (Extra Circular Activities), would've saved a lot of time to just write it out in the first place...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA

Oh that's comedy gold right there. GOLD I tell ya.

I can't decide if you're trolling or if you really are that fvcking stupid.

LOLOLOLOL

Letsrun.com baby

Op wrote:

Only legit mistake i saw was that i left out "school" - "i go to a pretty good school"- Ex Circulars stands for (Extra Circular Activities), would've saved a lot of time to just write it out in the first place...

It only seems like you're chasing your tail.

There's a private school somewhere in England that all the English royalty go to. I forget its name. That would probably be the most difficult private secondary school in the Western, English-speaking world you would face getting into. Otherwise, Exeter and Andover, etc.

As for Universities, from my experiences and reading-up-ons (probably now outdated for a good many years), CIT and MIT were two of the most difficult-to-get-into undergraduate schools in the country--harder than Ivy Leagues like Harvard and Yale. There are esoteric, relatively focused schools of varying size that are also relatively difficult to get into, as well as small liberal arts colleges on the west and east coasts.

You can look at options abroad, too, though probably limited to the Western English speaking world. Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, etc.

It depends on how you define prestige. You're probably hoping for input about cultural and abstract/non-qualifiable things that those with experience, perhaps roaming this board, could provide insider information on.

For a lay person, the list's leads would begin with % admitted (College Board publications have compiled information on this) (and number of applicants in recent years) and rankings (from that one world University rankings done by some Chinese academics, to US News & World report rankings, etc.)

nail the sat to make up for your class rank

My last post had me banned, I think for using a word that rhymes with "sick head." I coach a good private school. You might want to just focus on getting better at running. Academically, I'm afraid it's hopeless.

Letsrun: can "extra-circulars" be given iconic status like "deer Adam Goucher" etc? Maybe it can represent the academic pursuits of those of us who are better at running than thinking.

I think it may enter the LRC hall of memes along with "your welcome" and misuses of "there, their, they're." Conversational memes.

Not sure it gets to jump all the way up to iconic status like "Deer Adam Goucher" and "Is_____ update?" That takes a while.

AKMarmoset wrote:

Letsrun: can "extra-circulars" be given iconic status like "deer Adam Goucher" etc? Maybe it can represent the academic pursuits of those of us who are better at running than thinking.

But what is an extra circular activity? Rotary? Is track an extra circular activity, I mean you're basically running around in a circle? What others are there? Maybe some kind of tribal group dance class, maybe wrestling. Round tables. Volunteering at a circus. Friendship circle

You ought to tell us how old you are (assuming you are a sophomore or junior), what your test scores are (SAT, ACT, SAT subject tests--if they still do those) (AP tests?), what those extra-curriculars are, etc.

Also check out collegeconfidential.com, which seemed to be big in my day.

You want to have a few choices at hand, so you have a back-up plan, not necessarily only of lower-tier but a back-up plan for an alternative "most prestigious private school" since even, with all else being equal, of top qualifications, you can get rejected for spurious/erroneous reasons.

What's really important, when applying to individual schools to be extremely focused--you've got to sell to them why you would be a good fit for them, and why they would be a good fit for you. In my high school class and those one to three years above and below me, tons of unextraordinary people and people with inferior track credentials to you got into just about every Ivy League, small liberal arts college and technical college you could think of. A good spread. Some of them clearly had some legacy/heritage (whatever it's called) points working to their advantage. But I think some of them did a good job of focusing and selling themselves to a particular school.

The grades thing is really going to hurt you--the sad truth and one of the things I loathe most and find the most counterproductive and stupid, in our educational system. Boring people with 4.0 GPAs and cliche, faux writerly written statements will most of the time (at least in my day) pass over the brilliant people who have inferior GPAs. Colleges very much also want obedient students, to perpetuate the tuition-mill and academic machinery, as much as they want brilliant superstars.

It seemed a decade ago that some of the Ivy Leagues and prestigious small liberal arts colleges weren't as hard to get into as you would imagine (see aforementioned success stories of unextraordinary people--I could list reasons why some of them were unextraordinary, from falling for ponzi schemes/multi-level marketing schemes, etc. to other horror stories I gotta recall from long suppressed memory).

It seemed to me (though probably wrong or outdated now) that UChicago, Carnegie Mellon and Cooper Union were a little more difficult to get into than the elite school average.

Talking to family and friends, and your school's guidance counseling office, might help in terms of getting an idea of what the past admission success of alumnis of your school and peers of yours, were, to different schools and generally, what sort of person has good shots at different schools.

Like Bad Wigins quipped, minority status or other canonical categories of "special class," underserved categories, etc. does get you bonus points.

Athletics will help but the requirement is that you get the attention of the school's recruiters in your sport, in a significant enough way to influence the admissions office. So when you've got the schools you're interested in focused, you gotta do what you gotta do to get the catalyzing attention. If you've got to take the iniative, then do it; if you got to play hard to get, then do it. If someone with insider information tells you that sport's coaches don't have much sway with the admissions office, then, so be it.

Prestige of a school is not just something to get off about on a forum, but a practical thing to consider for your life plans. Prestige is also what you do with it and depends on what you plan to do after graduating and getting your B.A./B.S., etc.

Rich, poor, Ivy League or state school, we all gotta do some of the same things. Keep up the fundamentals of our life, brush our teeth and floss, drive a car and follow traffic rules. If you've got a weakest link, then the prestige of your school won't even matter (who knows what that is--personal fulfillment issues, social issues, weight gain, etc. etc. etc.).

Corrections:

that was Hingle Berry guy, not Bad Wigins.

And I meant, among my peers, they got into many schools, not that a single one of them or many of them got into, on an individual basis, many schools they applied to.

Cronje wrote:

AKMarmoset wrote:

Letsrun: can "extra-circulars" be given iconic status like "deer Adam Goucher" etc? Maybe it can represent the academic pursuits of those of us who are better at running than thinking.

But what is an extra circular activity? Rotary? Is track an extra circular activity, I mean you're basically running around in a circle? What others are there? Maybe some kind of tribal group dance class, maybe wrestling. Round tables. Volunteering at a circus. Friendship circle

Circle jerks?

im an azzhole wrote:

Cronje wrote:

But what is an extra circular activity? Rotary? Is track an extra circular activity, I mean you're basically running around in a circle? What others are there? Maybe some kind of tribal group dance class, maybe wrestling. Round tables. Volunteering at a circus. Friendship circle

Circle jerks?

Hey, circle-jerking is actually a very potent, needed and fruitful skill to have. What do successful bloggers do? Yep. Gotta get those compliments, reps and likes on da FB, Instagram, Twitter, etc. yo. When you at the high school dance and you high-fiving your mates and sandwiching and dirty dancing with the ladies? When you're at the keggers, drinking and shouting and high-fiving and rhapsodizing with your boys and the ladies are basking in it? When you bring gifts to your co-industry friends and they give you the "inside" scoop? When you've got friends in Congress or run for Congress yourself and are making extralegal barters? Nah, unethical behavior is bad. But a little circle-jerking douchebaggery is a very necessary skill, for sure.