<p>Yale has single choice early action, meaning you can only apply to Yale early. Princeton, Harvard, and Stanford will have this as well, starting next year.</p>
<p>Basically, SCEA is restarted at Harvard and Princeton. So, all the kids who normally EA to Stanford or Yale whose dream schools are Harvard and Princeton, aren’t goign to be applying. Which means that Stanford and Yale may have better EA admit rates next year</p>
<p>Darn it. Okay well I’m still debating right now about EA … Thank you everyone :)</p>
<p>One more small detail to add that I forgot to mention: I have 156.5 hours of community service. Hoping to get 200 hours by end of summer and 260 by the end of senior year. I volunteer at my local hospital in the kitchen (not the most exciting job in the world, I wanted another position but it was taken already.) I also get community service hours for performing at Chinese New Year events/shows. At my Chinese school (I went on hiatus this year because of my junior year coursework), I sometimes help out at sponsored events (sell food at Mini-food stands and Chinese parades at Washington D.C.) I’m most likely going back to Chinese school next year: hopefully I will be able to teach a dance class of toddlers at Chinese School or start a tutoring class for math and science. </p>
<p>Other things: for Physics Club, I tutor Honors Physics students weekly on Mondays and get SNHS/SSL hours for that.</p>
<p>Bumping this up.</p>
<p>Haha you go to wootton? This may sound a bit creeperish but do you know Michael Ip, Irene Yang, Alex Xu? I use to live in that area</p>
<p>On topic: Your SATs are the only thing holding you back</p>
<p>You know my cousin now, haha. Churchill is better than Wootton. </p>
<p>That said, you’ve got a rigorous schedule, you’ll make all the non ivies I think, with a possibilty for Cornell. The others are a crapshoot. One suggestion I have is to work with a local company over the summer IN THE FIELD on your prospective majors. That’s going to be an eye-popping display of initiative. Good luck!</p>
<p>Not sure if I can work at a company over the summer o.o but I did apply to JHU-APL which is related to my engineering major</p>
<p>There’s really no point in doing these university sponsored summer programs. I’m not sure how they look for college but I personal learned nothing from mine and found Internships to be better use of my time. Have fun with whatever you do though.</p>
<p>JHU-APL is an internship. XD</p>
<p>Yeah but it’s affiliated with jhu. Local companies are where it’s at.</p>
<p>I’ll see if I can find an internship at my dad’s company, even though he does computer science. I’m thinking of interning at NASA next year if I can (even though I wouldve already gotten accepted into college by then.)</p>
<p>Who cares about college =) ? Compsci is fun. Make an app for iPhone too! I had a good time doing that. It’d look good too.</p>
<p>That’s like saying since RSI is affiliated with MIT it’s somehow invalid. Sure pre-college programs are bs-programs, but the JHU internship appears to be more legitimate.</p>
<p>@soydecali that’s a great point actually. Different people find different environments more beneficial for learning, I love cold calling and asking for jobs rather than applying to university programs. My brother tried one and was even allowed to bring me one day (I was a 7th grader the summer before my 8th grade year) and I didn’t like it there.</p>
<p>Interesting perspectives. Well, over the summer I’ll be focusing on my college applications, SAT prep, dance performances, and hopefully jobs if I can get any. I’ll try to get some money from tutoring or restaurant work. I’ll try my best to get a job at a company but it seems highly unlikely right now.</p>
<p>If you’re already doing a bunch of things this summer, don’t keep trying to cram more in. It will be your last summer before you start getting ready to head off to college, so try to enjoy yourself a little bit. :)</p>
<p>Ahh thanks for the suggestions ^^ I just feel like I need to make SOME money to save up for college because my parents are currently reluctant about paying for private school tuitions >.> They’re only willing to pay for me to go to University of Maryland unless I can prove to them I can make sufficient money to go somewhere out-of-state. >.<</p>
<p>Well, you have to make the out of state colleges in order to have that option. I disagree with the opinion (respectfully, of course) about chilling in your last summer before college just because my philosophy is:
You get one chance as a high schooler, so you better make the most of the important things.
The caveat is, what do you define as being important to you? If you want Princeton and Yale, etc., commit to activities you enjoy and have a passion for, and you get best of both worlds: enjoy and stay involved.</p>
<p>Oh, I agree not to chill (I mean, I’m spending my summer in a lab doing Neuroscience research on epilepsy and also running a peer tutoring company, so obviously I don’t advocate “just chillin”) but what I was saying was not to cram TOO much in, because there should be a little downtime that’s not spent doing academically- and/or work-oriented things…</p>