<p>Lol, I’m so glad our school doesn’t rank or else my friend would literally not be sleeping for the sake of being #1. And I definitely agree about being a better person; it frustrates me so much to see those people who do stuff only for their college applications… then don’t care about what they actually should be doing. I’m sorry to hear that about your friend, but, eh, perhaps it wasn’t that great a friendship after all?</p>
<p>Haha, sounds fun! Good luck with those. I’m not that much of an achiever. Standard 7 IB tests and 8 AP tests, here I come…</p>
<p>I take 8 IB tests, and over 10 APs, I think.</p>
<p>I learned something great from my Chemistry teacher who is like a freaking genius, but went to George Mason for undegrad. He said regardless of where I go, there will be people smarter. And years down the road, GPA and rank doesn’t mean **** anymore. So I always think that I can do my best, and hope for the best. I wish I could translate that thought into my friends.</p>
<p>Lol, now I feel like a slacker. 7 IB tests is enough for me, then I’m aiming for 7 SAT IIs possibly more APs then. I feel like the number of APs doesn’t matter as much, considering we’ll be taking all AP/IB courses and that they aren’t counted at some colleges for credit. In the meantime, I’m planning on focusing on the club I’ve founded and the non-profit organization I’m currently trying to found… Community first, grades second! (:</p>
<p>y so easily intimidated?</p>
<p>Haha, 'cause I’m like that, I think. But I’m trying to maintain the mindset that everyone’s unique.</p>
<p>lol SAT IIs. I have to take those next year. I’m surprised I’m the only sophomore in my school to take the SAT, smart as they are.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say a friend who tries to do better than you at everything and is all worked up about their achievements is neccesarily smart, and plus I have a few smart friends who don’t act like that. And that doesn’t make them un-smart.
Anyway, my former (best) friend was kind of like that. She knew I liked writing, when I entered a school writing competition and got a certificate in front of the school she acted bitter about how she didn’t know I could write and said how she was a talented writer… even though she’s a math/science type and isn’t even good at English.
And when I did better than her in a test, she would say how unimportant and stupid the test was, whereas when she got a better score, she would go on and on about how easy the test was and how she never studied. Funny thing to say since her mom bragged to mine about her studying this exercise book on her own and all this crap.
Hopefully your friend is better than my old one, and she has some positive parts of her personality that make an annoying thing about her able to be overlooked.</p>
<p>@MIThopeful16… you need to go to a better school. It’s better to be amongst people as smart or smarter than you than to be amongst people far intellectually below you, if possible. Maybe not for college apps, but just in general, I find it much increases productivity.</p>
<p>Way too much unfounded arrogance going on.</p>
<p>Some people are just like that. There was this girl who spent the whole night studying history so ‘she could beat me’. </p>
<p>If one thinks the whole purpose of studying is to get good grades, that person’s just naive. True, good grades are important, but is it even THAT important?</p>
<p>Study for the sake of learning and opening your minds.</p>
<p>^ My point exactly. I for one won’t give a damn about what my grade on a Math test was in 10th Grade, 20 years from now.</p>
<p>@MIThopeful16, really? I thought a lot of people took SATs sophomore year. My brother took his first SATs last year, and he’ll be the college class 2015 so technically he’s a “sophomore”. I’d want to take my SATs end of sophomore year (and again start of junior year if neccesary), then do SAT II sometime junior year.</p>
<p>I thought sophomore’s were class of 2016? And in my school, I was the only one. There were tons more across the nation that did that probably.</p>
<p>SAT 2s during sophomore is very very normal. Perhaps you don’t go to very good school.</p>
<p>Abnormal is talking it during 7th grade and getting a 2300. And then getting sad about it -_-</p>
<p>Perhaps, and lol I probably should’ve taken it 7th grade. I’m going to be sad this time if I don’t get a 2300 minimum.</p>
<p>MITHopeful, you’re lucky you’re good at English (enough to get 750s on both). 800 on math is a breeze, but the others I have to study for (mostly so I don’t fall asleep in the CR section).</p>
<p>I actually find it fun to compare test scores. It kind of incentives you to study just that much harder to get that 99.5 to beat your friend’s 99. I was definitely the student who spent the least time on homework, did 99% of the work in group projects, and then aced the exams.</p>
<p>I took the SAT freshman year, but it was pretty pitiful when not looking at my math scores.</p>
<p>Usually the people who are like this find other people who are like this. There were a plethora of these people in the IB program, but a lot of people were more competitive than others. The 2400 SAT students were fairly serious and didn’t want to compare, but most of the math/science people (mostly guys) who were taking all of the advanced classes would compare test scores, projects/project scores, random knowledge, length of study guides, and how cool a graph they could make on their calculators (The last one only when it was in an extremely boring lecture, and that damn guy with the TI-89 always won).</p>
<p>I would suggest that you try to beat them and try to have fun beating them in tests. Just study hard and you can probably beat them.</p>
<p>As for the stress that AP exams give, it is really only 3-4 days before when you go into serious review that is stressful. I found that Calc BC and Physics C were easier, because all of the material had sunk in immediately so there wasn’t a necessary cram session to get a 5. For exams that require memorization, it can be stressful the week before.</p>
<p>I found that in high school the significant portion of stress occurred from trying to get do projects perfectly without competent people helping (or they knew that you’d do all the work). That mixed in with remembering you have homework/exams the day the project is due, but you were too busy finishing the project is just icing on the cake. But, that is why on some sort of level people are addicted to the stress.</p>
<p>^ Haha, I do a lot of things well. I honestly have scared my competition in my school from competing with me. I beat them without studying already, but if I want to be more of a prick, I could study.</p>
<p>Yeah, the worst is when you see someone outside of the class and they say they’ve studied all weekend, you ask what for, and they say for the exam in 5 minutes. You say, you completely forgot it was today, then proceed to do it extremely well, and you still do way better than them.</p>
<p>There are people at my school who are worthy competition, so I’ll study for some of the stuff (mostly courses with more memorization like history and biology).</p>
<p>You also have to love the 2-4 question exams that have no partial credit, and you’re the only one who gets more than half of them right, much less get all of them right. People are just ****ed off that you even understood it.</p>