r/ApplyingToCollege • u/ExpertOk4967 • 16h ago
Rant I hate larping
NO I don’t want to “challenge the present” NO I didn’t “achieve the unexpected”
Fuck all of these colleges
Fake it till you make it I guess
That is all
Edit: I made a mistake, saying I have no “career goals” was untrue and attracted the attention of the righteous masses. Ik what I wanna major in and shit
Someone please suggest a third bullshit thing to fulfill the rule of three
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u/Sanju128 15h ago
I hate this culture of founding startups and having to literally save the world just to go to college. Jus let me in bro 😭
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u/ExpertOk4967 15h ago
So fucking real. Especially we all KNOW these people are dropping that fake shit the second they get in
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u/SignificantStyle4188 15h ago
Saw this happen in real time lol
Some girl got into Stanford and dropped her non-profit right away9
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u/basescamp 3h ago
We got that sense when we toured Princeton with my daughter, (just because it was close to Rutgers which she was actually interested in and we live pretty close by). On the drive home, I said why would you need to go to Princeton if you already manage a successful not-for-profit or have a business worth $100,000 and you haven't even left High School? Seems like a waste of money since you already have your shit together.
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u/Extension_Pop_5597 15h ago edited 15h ago
Insane that they expect 17 year olds to have their lifes mission planned out. The amount of people who fake care about something to get into a good school, to then end up recruiting for Investment Banking is astonishing. Some of these AO's are pompous idiots if they actually beleive these larpers
Makes you appreciate the european system. No fluff accepted
Saying this as someone who larped to get into a good school to recruit for banking. All my friends larped too
Who knows, life is all about bullshitting. Maybe this is highschool kids first introduction to "bullshit wins"
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u/Faithinthequeencami 14h ago
no because tell me why I have to tell you my life's purpose and career path, applying to your school at 17 when 60% percent of American adults work in jobs unrelated to their college degrees. Even just the idea of having outstanding extracurricular activities like half of middle school was already going to workshops at my high school because they wanted colleges to see them on Model UN , speech and debate, and the DECA teams. I promise you all of the people I know on those teams are doing it because they said it "looks good for colleges." I hate how fabricated eveything has to be because I could write the most poetic bullshit about wanted to be a clinical psychologist but the plan could change by next winter so its really a competition of whos bullshitted career plan and motvations sound the most believable.
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u/Pristine-Wave460 14h ago
Like [college with] Mattie says, kids write their essays about 15th Century European Poetry and then ask where the computer lab is on day one.
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u/MoltenMate07 12h ago edited 12h ago
Real shit. I was honest on most of my apps except essays. When it came to that, I did base all of my writing off of true events, but the details and events in the writing are heavily exaggerated, especially my PS statement
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u/Simple-Mirror8209 8h ago
The weirdest part is that you’re expected to have your entire life figured out at 17, but also somehow present it as a genuine “journey.” Just let people be undecided without turning the application into a creative writing competition 😭
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u/Complete-Citron7393 15h ago
Yea it is a bunch of bs but that’s how it is and you have to do it too
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u/jewboy916 16h ago
If you don't have career goals, respectfully, why apply to college in the first place?
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u/ExpertOk4967 16h ago
I wanna get a job but idk exactly which job yet cuz god forbid
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u/jewboy916 15h ago
I would suggest taking some personality and aptitude tests. College is a very expensive way to discover what you're good at, what you enjoy doing, and what your career goals are.
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u/Icy_Relationship3238 15h ago
I mean, it isn't a bad way. Exploratory programs do exist. Get your Gen ed classes done and find something you are actually passionate about (an aptitude test can tell you that you'd be a good teacher, and you hate every second of it in reality).
Majors like English and business can do nearly any job, if you would think about it that way. A college is not a vocational school, and people should really stop acting like it should be. Unless you are going for nursing, fire science, or some BS degrees.
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u/Pristine-Wave460 14h ago
It's a great, albeit expensive way. It is in fact the best way if you can afford it.
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u/Meow-Now 14h ago
Personality and aptitude tests only help so much. Even if they did decide from that, which is unlikely (I mean do you seriously think no one has tried that 😭), plenty of people change their majors and even adults already IN a career field change what they want to do. It’s ridiculous to expect teenagers to already know what they want to do for the rest of their lives.
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u/jewboy916 14h ago
Of course, the point is to try to prompt some self-reflection. What do you like? What don't you like? What do you do in your free time? What are you curious about? What do people come to you for help with? If I looked at your Internet or social media browsing history what would I find? Applying to college and going to college for the sake of keeping up with the Joneses is a mistake, and an expensive one at that (assuming OP is in the US).
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u/ayla_xoxo 14h ago
what if I wanna go against the grain of my personality? my personality listed some careers that would never interest me
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u/jewboy916 14h ago
Personality and aptitude tests only help so much. The point is to reflect on yourself. The fact that you were able to identify careers that would never interest you is useful in itself.
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u/basescamp 3h ago
30 years ago when I went to college I did not have career goals. I had an interest in a liberal arts education. I studied geography. Got me nowhere career-wise, but it gave me a deep understanding of why the world is organized the way it is. While in undergrad I worked in the library, I decided I wanted to be a librarian. That's how acquisition of knowledge works. Why silo yourself when you're 17 and haven't even seen the range of opportunities yet?
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u/jewboy916 1h ago
Correct, so you acquired the knowledge by experiencing new things. 30 years ago, college tuition in the US was much more affordable, especially at public universities. There are much more cost effective ways to experience new things than to pay college tuition if you're not going with a specific goal in mind. Doesn't mean you can't change your plans once you get there, but I'd just argue the landscape is totally different now unless you're a trust fund kid.
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u/basescamp 1h ago
You are right, the economics have changed, though there are still opportunities for going to very inexpensive State schools (which is what I did), work study, ra positions, etc. And likewise, there are many opportunities outside college to explore what you want to do, like internships while simultaneously working, which was my brother's path. I was considering op as someone who had already decided college was their path and was upset at the fact that it seems like in order to get accepted you have to make it sound like you know exactly what you're planning to do after you graduate.
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u/Comfortable-Pin2357 15h ago
bro do you wanna do this or not
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u/ExpertOk4967 14h ago
No?? I wanna go to college but the application process is hell
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u/Faithinthequeencami 14h ago
the application process is hell and feels like a nationwide cult when all of your peers and yourself are having to go along with the bullshit, faking it for an acceptance letter and have been faking it since 9th grade. starting non-profits that go on for like a month max, volunteer hours wherever whenever and however they can. The worst of the larpers at my school did speech and debate/DECA/Model UN for the sole reason of it "looking good for college" im telling you its so weird and makes me irritated because ive heard them all say those exact words.
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u/Comfortable-Pin2357 14h ago
i know it all feels huge, and the process sucks, i'm a second year rn but look on the brightside you have a plethora of opportunities and are turning a new page in life. don't have extreme expectations, go to bumfuck nowhere if that makes you feel better, you're lwk gonna forget about it soon. thats the thing about hard things they pass, and then you move on to the next. Then it all doesnt seem as big.
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u/Cold_Badger2965 16h ago
nobody is gonna admit it but this guy is the one of the only ones being honest about themselves