[ SECRET POST #3148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3148 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Steven Universe]


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03.
[Et Cetera]


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04.
[Gravity Falls]


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05.
[Xenosaga]


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06.
[Anastasia]


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07.
(Amazing Spiderman reboot)


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08.
[999]


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09.
[Adam Hills, comedian]


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10.
[Ar Tonelico]















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of like those fanfics (and a lot of actual YA novels) that have characters getting into Ivy League schools or MIT or Stanford and I sit there throwing things and yelling "BELIEVE ME IT IS NOT THAT EASY OR SIMPLE."

Same person

[(Anonymous)]

very cute art, tho.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, those are two different kinds of difficulty

(Elite schools versus elite tech schools, I mean) (MIT was the only school that rejected me) (not bitter)

[(Anonymous)]

I included Ivy League because they are most frequently used. I used MIT and Stanford because, as a engineering major, they are the ones I hear about.

Stanford didn't accept me, but I still love my school and my courses. Sometimes rejection brings you to a better fit than you expect.

[(Anonymous)]

"I haven't gone to school for 4 days out of 5 and I don't really study that much and I have enough time to fuck the most attractive guy in town every night. I've gotten into Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton...man, which one should I go to?"

[(Anonymous)]

I will always love that Buffy went to the local state school and Xander didn't go to college (although I think Willow may have had some better offers?) I know it meant they didn't need to change things too drastically on the show, but it also makes sense in-universe. You fight vampires all night! No way you also have time to be the kind of person who looks good on applications to top-tier universities!

[(Anonymous)]

Well...it kind of is? If you pull the grades, hold some office in a club, and make high enough SAT/ACT scores, bam, you're in.

[chardmonster]

You're a legacy, aren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

Probably more white and upper or upper-middle class, I think. I mean, the same thing worked for me, and I wasn't a legacy anywhere except the local state college.

Of course, when you say "the grades and the SAT/ACT scores", those have to be quite high. But it's not a fundamentally incorrect statement for specific groups of people.

[(Anonymous)]

I had all of that, 5s on nine AP exams, almost perfect SAT scores, and I still didn't get into the three ivies I applied to, including the one I was a legacy at. At some point it's just a fucking lottery - they get so many applications and EVERYONE has that stuff. You need to be a state record-setting track star or something else that stands out.

Although I'm only one year off from the demographic peak of the baby boom echo, so my year in particular was probably extra competitive.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah but fictional characters are often pretty exceptional people. I get it if it's some slacker portrayed that way, but when you've got people saving the world at the age of 10 or whatever, I don't find it much of a stretch. Plenty of kids do get into those schools every year, and most of them probably haven't saved the world.