I don't know about you forum, but I'm pissed off. Why am I pissed off, you ask? I'm pissed off because ever since we began grade school, the school districts have been trying to get us ready for college, and up 'til now it's been very doable. You just had to do it, didn't you economy? You just had to crash the year before I started applying to college. I'm not a fantastic student or anything, but for quite some time I've had my eyes on UC Santa Barbara. It was a good school in an absolutely breath-taking area that I definitely had a good chance of getting into. In researching the school, the Collegeboard gave me all sorts of statistics that I'd look at and say "Wow, I'm above average in most of these categories. I can do this." Even worse, my counselor at Bullard High School gave me a UC pamphlet last year that said that the students at UCSB had an average cumulative gpa of 3.7 in high school, and an average SAT score of 1750. About a week before I received my rejection from UCSB, they sent me a letter giving me the statistics for the class of 2010...the real ones. Real Average gpa: 4.1 Real Average SAT 1950. Wow. For those of you that aren't very good at math, that's a .4 raise in gpa and a 200 point raise on the SAT...in one year! When I saw this letter, I immediately knew that I no longer had any shot at getting in. 46,000 Class of 2010 students applied to UCSB for about 3,500 spots. Just my luck.Woohoo: My woohoo of the day goes to me. Contrary to what you may believe from reading this post, I'm one of the luckier ones. Despite being rejected from UCSB and a lot of other UCs, I still got into my second choice of school in UCR. A large number of people I know are stuck going to city college for two years, hoping that the honors program there will guide them into a UC. I hate to break it to you guys, but you're members of the Class of 2010. I guarantee you, more people than ever before are doing the EXACT same thing as you and the UCs aren't adding spots at their schools...they're cutting them. Transferring, no doubt, will help some of you out...but a lot more people will be turned down than ever before...I promise you that.
Boohoo: My boohoo for today goes to the Class of 2009. I want you all to know that I hate you with a burning passion and you couldn't be luckier to have been accepted to the schools of your dreams.
For those of you who actually follow this blog, I'd like to apologize for my two week vacation from writing it. I've been very lazy lately with the whole spring break thing and time kind of flew. I'm back though, and hoping to continue to post at least once a week. Sovereignty, hurry your ass up.
