Anonymous
12/24/2025 15:28
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).
Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.
By “normal human” you mean having parents that are big donors?
Yes. Donors are important. Their funding will provide resources for students who need financial aid.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 15:23
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).
Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.
By “normal human” you mean having parents that are big donors?
Anonymous
12/24/2025 15:11
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
If you think every 1580 kid who applies to Dartmouth is getting in, you have a lot to learn.
of course not. Schools do not admit students by SAT
Anonymous
12/24/2025 15:08
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).
Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 15:02
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:45
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
If you think every 1580 kid who applies to Dartmouth is getting in, you have a lot to learn.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:42
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.
* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted
Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:39
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
I went from a collaborative LAC to law school which is not exactly collaborative. Even if kids don’t encounter strivers in undergrad, they will have to deal with them at some point- professional school, jobs, even family situations where people have different definitions and expectations regarding achievement.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:24
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Diligent and Striver do not mean the same thing. Many diligent students are not Strivers.
Strivers = kids who memorize and regurgitate definitions, primarily for the purpose of achieving good test scores.
Diligent = kids who take the time to understand language and recognize that words are tools which we use to communicate.
Nope.
Strivers will make friends with kids they hate to be in the right crowd.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:24
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:22
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Dartmouth? Lolz
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:21
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I hate posters who use the word “strivers.” Any legitimate university will have students who work hard and those who don’t.
Google party school if your kid is the latter.
Agreed. OP, there is a reason that great colleges are great - it’s because they tend not to let slackers in!
You too don’t understand the definition of striver, hint it’s not somebody who works hard.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:20
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Not true at DC’s school.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 14:11
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.
Anonymous
12/24/2025 13:41
Subject: Great colleges with fewer intense strivers
Anonymous wrote:I hate posters who use the word “strivers.” Any legitimate university will have students who work hard and those who don’t.
Google party school if your kid is the latter.
Agreed. OP, there is a reason that great colleges are great - it’s because they tend not to let slackers in!