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

step 1.

take up the game of rugby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

step 2.

get good at said game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1A06stpydY

step 3.

get in touch with top schools in uk listed here

http://www.schoolsrugby.co.uk/TeamLeaguePerformance.aspx

step 4.

get a scholarship. Sedbergh, one of the best in the UK will give you a rugby scholarship even if you are borderline mentally retarded. they just want W's!

www.sedberghschool.org

6EQUJ5 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...

It only seems like you're chasing your tail.

He's actually doing MORE than chasing his tail.

I don't know what people are talking about. Having coached in the Ivy League, I'd say you could definitely end up there - at any of the schools Harvard included - if they want you.

You don't mention your SATs which is big.

Now, they may not want you because of your attitude. Weldon said the following about how awesome it was to coach at Cornell. "The best thing about it is everyone you coach chose to go there."

At first, I didn't get what he meant. But many guys who are obsessed with the HYPe (Harvard Yale Princeton) end up going there because they feel obligated to go there. They don't really want to go there.

You don't really want to run. You just want first and foremost to be prestigous.

410/915 as a junior would get you recruited. As a senior, it's normally too late (although I had a kid at Cornell take a year off and apply the next year). You basically do your redshirt year between HS and college . More Ivies should do that.. If you are serious, email me and I'll try to help you.

I hope your first piece of advice is that the school the degree will only get you so far in life.

certainly helps though.

Let's say this kid wants to go into IBD or a well-paying Wall street job. A kid who is from, say Harvard is going to have a massive advantge over the kid from Ohio State.

Your sentence structure leads me to believe that you might be retarded.

Would running track be considered an extra circular activity?

I guess it would depend on how many laps right?

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!

Clearly, kids today aren't doing enough circular activities (parallelograms seem to be the thing these days) ,so the fact that you are doing extra circular activities bodes well.

In all honesty, if you are not ranked #1 or #2 in your class, and you haven't CRUSHED the SAT, or the school doesn't have a library named after your grandfather, you aren't getting into an elite private school.

grimatongueworm wrote:

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!

Clearly, kids today aren't doing enough circular activities (parallelograms seem to be the thing these days) ,so the fact that you are doing extra circular activities bodes well.

In all honesty, if you are not ranked #1 or #2 in your class, and you haven't CRUSHED the SAT, or the school doesn't have a library named after your grandfather, you aren't getting into an elite private school.

The 1st point is completely false, depending on the caliber of your HS.

I go to a highly ranked public school (one of the best STEM schools in the nation) and a kid who was in the top 20% went to Cornell and another kid in the top 20% went to MIT.

And none of them had any major awards or hooks like being a recruited athlete.

You can always apply to Harvards summer school program. Harvard is pretty nice to try out. Nice people, nostalgic grounds, interesting residence halls, cool murals in the basement of Adams House(?), good pizza nearby too.

suny buffalo

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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!

This is the absolute worst possible way to go about making your college decision. I can say this because I made my decision in the exact same way, and I am not very happy with where I ended up.

Rojo,

I am going to call bs on you. I would guess that the people who got into HYPe as you call it but chose to go to Cornell are about a million miles from the majority. Whenever I hear a Cornell grad assert that he/she chose to go to Cornell over *insert high caliber school* I just roll my eyes. What screams insecurity like "I could've gone to X school but decided not to"?

Cornell is a great school but it enjoys the same self-pertuating 'prestige' factor of HYPe that breeds complacency and condescension. And Cornell grads are kings of condescension.

Aaah wait a second wrote:

Rojo,

I am going to call bs on you. I would guess that the people who got into HYPe as you call it but chose to go to Cornell are about a million miles from the majority. Whenever I hear a Cornell grad assert that he/she chose to go to Cornell over *insert high caliber school* I just roll my eyes. What screams insecurity like "I could've gone to X school but decided not to"?

Cornell is a great school but it enjoys the same self-pertuating 'prestige' factor of HYPe that breeds complacency and condescension. And Cornell grads are kings of condescension.

The condescension probably has to do with the fact that Cornell is the bottom Ivy league school

Davidson College in North Carolina my friend. Everybody is cool.

Good running program.

9/10- good job was

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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

Pretty good for a 4 year old unless you mean college

rojo wrote:

I'd say you could definitely end up there - at any of the schools Harvard included - if they want you.

And I could definitely end up with Heidi Klum if she wants me.

I don't understand the comment that everyone who runs at Cornell wants to be there, in contrast to runners at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. If I had run at Cornell, it would have been because I didn't get an offer from a school I would rather have run at. I wouldn't expect that to be true of everyone,but I would have thought it to be true of a higher percentage of runnersat Cornell than at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.