<p>If you want another opinion on it feel free to PM it to me and I’ll critique it for you :)</p>
<p>You can trust me not to copy it or anything. Brownie promise! (I wasn’t actually a Brownie, but the point still stands)</p>
<p>Haha sure! Yes please, actually 
I’ll send it right to you. I’m warning you though, it sounds very stiff D:</p>
<p>Check yer PMs, sugar!</p>
<p>Why’d she choose UMich, portugueseninja? Seems like a slightly random college to go to if you’re coming all the way from the UK, haha…</p>
<p>I’ll take a look at your Why Yale essay, if you like! Question: How many words is 500 characters, in your case? I can’t think in terms of character limits, only word limits.</p>
<p>About 100 words maybe?</p>
<p>I don’t really know why she chose there! I actually think it may have been Minnesota she went to… somewhere beginning with M. But she’s looking to transfer to some tech school in Chicago I think. I recall something about Michigan/Minnesota/whatever it was being one of the only places she could do the major she wanted.</p>
<p>That’s kind of strange… I guess it makes sense, though. I feel like it’s slightly silly when people opt for one college over another just because of a prospective major.</p>
<p>hey yall! im bac</p>
<p>i can read it too if u want demi. how many word should the why yale thing be?</p>
<p>i only read a few pages back, could someone summarize anything important for me pls? i skimmed it and saw something about a beatles marathon?! i wanna come i wanna come!!</p>
<p>This thread scares me.</p>
<p>Biggie Smalls, why does it scare you? Are you threatened by our AWESOMENESS?</p>
<p>Rocker, maybe that’s the Britishness installed in us… I’m picking schools based on my prospective major as well.</p>
<p>I’m so down for a Beatles-a-thon as well :D</p>
<p>Hahaha, I didn’t read what you guys were writing at the end, but yes, in a nutshell, the collective AWESOMENESS of all the SCEA hopefuls that will all be trying to get in in the fall!!!</p>
<p>Excellent. Are you one of us, a fellow SCEAer?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that Biggie Smalls is pretty much the most awesome username of all time.</p>
<p>Yo, I woke up this morning and was pleasantly in a state of half-sleep when I realized that I have a little over two weeks until school starts, and then I jolted wide awake and realized that (1) my Common App essay isn’t finished, (2) my supplement essays aren’t started, (3) my activity short answer isn’t started or thought about, (4) my short takes haven’t been thought about at all, and (5) my IB Extended Essay is only a quarter done, and it needs to be 4,000 words. I would like school to be postponed.</p>
<p>What major are you looking at, portuguese?</p>
<p>I would love to read it too demi, if you wouldn’t mind =D promise no steal (pinky shake)</p>
<p>and welcome Biggie Smalls! if you are a SCEArs, if not… welcome anyway!</p>
<p>and I go through the same thing every morning rocker, minus IB essay add organizing a charity and summer assisgnments. And instead of a jolt it’s more like a UGGGHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>Rocker, I have most of those same problems as well, and yet I’m also aware that 1) My SAT test is in about 50 days and I still don’t understand anything on the math section, 2) My subject test is in November and I am only a quarter of the way through USH study, and 3) in December I have to sit either French or Biology and I nothing of either.</p>
<p>OH JOY!</p>
<p>I want to do Anthropology with Near Eastern Languages and Civilization (that’s what it is at Yale, each school does it a bit differently)</p>
<p>That’s really cool! It’s good that you know exactly what you want to do.</p>
<p>For SAT math, I’d advise just doing tons of practice questions and tests, and then reading the solutions and trying to figure them out. I can help you, if you need it. </p>
<p>If you’re taking a second subject test in December, does that mean you aren’t applying SCEA? Because I believe the November test date is the last one that can be considered for EA (and even that isn’t guaranteed…)</p>
<p>I am applying SCEA, doing Literature and USH in November then the 3rd in December in time for RD applications.</p>
<p>Yeah it’s not guaranteed so that in itself is nervewracking!</p>
<p>I’m going to the library tomorrow to get this Algebra for Dummies book, the reviews I’ve read of it say it explains stuff really well so hopefully it’ll help me understand. I really appreciate the offer of help though, I may well be taking you up on that!</p>
<p>Whoa! Tons of posts just appeared out of nowhere 
Haha okay I’ll send it to you all! Just putting it out there, it’s called a rough draft for a reason! Also, it’s really tight/crammed. Ehhh.</p>
<p>Welcome Biggie Smalls!
And I would like school to be postponed too D: I start on the 27th. Crazyy.</p>
<p>I have to retake SATs in october, and then an SAT II in november (have nooo idea what I’m taking yet…)</p>
<p>I’m taking Math II in October. I loooove math II. It’s strange because I find it easier than the math on the SAT I. It’s just all straightforward, and there aren’t tons of little tricks and traps.</p>
<p>But yes, I’m good with reasoning through SAT math, so if ever you need me to explain a problem, I think I can help you, portugueseninja :)</p>
<p>I got your PM but I don’t have much time now, so I’ll read it later…</p>
<p>I can do simple algebra. I don’t understand quadratic equations, particularly the ones that end with = 0</p>
<p>I also struggle with fractions. Working out percentages (the backward kind where it says like: “a shirt is now £7.43 which was reduced 20% from the original price. What was the original price?” <- I don’t knooooooooow!!)</p>
<p>Umm… that’s my main problem. I think I get the triangle stuff, like working out angles. Don’t get trigonometry though. Or is that what trig is?</p>
<p>Trig is basically the triangle stuff (and weirdly my favorite part of the math section), you bascially have to remember there are 180 degrees in a triangle, complimentary angels add up to be 90 and supplementary are 180. With that, almost all the trig questions can be figured out, you just might have to doodle on the question a bit xD</p>
<p>Percentages freak me out too. What helps me is just using X. Like that problem, you’re trying to find the original price, call that X. you know that 20% of X is 7.43 (OMG EUROS. …are those euros? xD I always see $) </p>
<p>so you know .2 x X = 7.43
from there it turns into simple algebra. to find x divide by .2, and voila!</p>
<p>I don’t remember that many quadratic equations on the SAT, but they can be used for a lot of things. What exactly are you confused on, like how to solve them?</p>
<p>Got your mini-essay Demi, thought it was really good, pming right now</p>