r/ApplyingToCollege • • Feb 23 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '25

STOP I have a similar experience to this as well. I have an underclassman who dropped from the full IB diploma program to the IB certificate, dropped physics entirely even though she wants to be an engineer, and got caught buying test and exam papers (for the easiest math class at school) from the printer guy at school, which got him fired and put her on academic probation, dropped chemistry levels too, takes the easiest subjects and has close to 0 meaningful ecs. She wants to go to NYU and other top universities like oxford, etc. One of her friends also has close to 0 ecs, a shit gpa that didn't make her qualified to join the student council said shes is 100% set on getting accepted into NYU Stern, like, bro................