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<p>Hey! I'm a rising junior from Texas...For my junior year I will be going to TAMS (Texas Academy of Math and Science), which is a residential program where students live on the campus of the University of North Texas, and take college classes. Do u guys have some suggestions...any advice.. please help me instead of saying stuff like oooo it's too early... i dun care... i pretty much had fun in my freshman year pretty much partying wit friends and have enjoyed myself in general... now i wanna actually work. Oh and should I do NHS...or should I just like not waste my time doing NHS cause I am thinking about joining FBLA in my junior year cause a lot of ppl from my school go to state in FBLA and it seems fun</p>

<p>Male, Indian (dang it)
Low Income: ~25k</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.9ish
Rank: 14 of ~1000</p>

<p>Human Geography Ap-5
World History AP-5</p>

<p>PSAT CR: 72
PSAT Math: 80
PSAT WR: 78</p>

<p>ECs:
Marching Band (Alto Saxophone for 6 years so far): (9th-10th, 15 hours a week from September-Dec)
Section leader (9th), Squad leader 10th....gonna do band throughout high school </p>

<p>JETS chapter: founder/president (10th..gonna continue till end of high school)</p>

<p>HOPE: community service club...founder and president (10th-12th)</p>

<p>Math club: secretary (10th)...gonna do this thrughout high school</p>

<p>Research in physics gonna try to do ISEF and some other science competitions this year</p>

<p>Junior Year schedule
Fall Semester – </p>

<p>Biology 1711 (lecture), Biology 1730 (lab)
Chemistry 1410 or 1413, Chemistry 1430 (lab)
English 1315
Math 1710 (Calc 1)
Seminar
P051 Mechanics</p>

<p>Spring Semester – </p>

<p>Biology 1722 (lecture), Biology 1740 (lab)
Chemistry 1420 or 1423 (lecture), Chemistry 1440 (lab)
English 1325
Math 1720 (Calc 2)
Seminar
Electives: Band and Spanish
P053 Electricity & Magnetism </p>

<p>Awards: </p>

<p>State Award for Outstanding Soloist for music (3 ppl total out of band, choir, and orchestra got this out of maybe 1000 ppl)</p>

<p>Invited to take AIME (i think i got like a 5 on this...)</p>

<p>Local Leadership program (i think it was like a 10% chance of acceptance)</p>

<p>Dang it..owell this is soo far... hopefully junior year will be better....</p>

<p>If you guys want more info like my tentative senior schedule, then just ask me.
THANKS FOR READING THIS</p>

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<p>Also, I wanna major in electrical engineering (ignore my username)</p>

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<p>Congrats on your decision to go to TAMS...</p>

<p>If I was you, I would not be even thinking about joining activities that look good on your resume' right now. You don't know how hard it's going to be there, so I would really be selective about which activities you join, especially first semester. First semester I would make school absolutely your #1 priority. In fact, there's nothing wrong with just doing school that 1st semester. Then once you have adjusted academically you can start to add activities. How about setting up your research mentorship in physics to start your 2nd semester there?</p>

<p>I went to a math & science academy too, and my first semester all I did was study (plus occasional practices of the math and science team, but that didn't really get into full gear until the spring anyway.) </p>

<p>Try to do things with the philosophy of preparing you to do <em>well</em> at MIT rather than just get in.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the advice... am I on the right track? I have actually already started doing research but not at UNT...at another nearby college.</p>

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<p>collegealum...wat college are u at rite now (are u at MIT? i would think tat u are at MIT but a lot of ppl that go on the MIT forum are actually still in high school, so just making sure)? Or are u still in high school?</p>

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<p>looks good so far...I am a MIT alum.</p>

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<p>btw, here are the resume's of a couple of TAMS alumni now at MIT...there will be some very smart people at TAMS....</p>

<p><a href="http://edboyden.org/resume.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://edboyden.org/resume.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/Ting_Lab/cv.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/Ting_Lab/cv.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thank u soo much...more opinions any1...advice?</p>

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<p>Why not pick up a Halliday & Resnick physics book and start doing some mechanics problems? Get a little headstart on the semester.</p>

<p>If you're going to be an electrical engineer, you can't do enough of these problems.</p>

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<p>Thanks, but what would be the prerequisites to solve those problems. Since I haven't really taken calculus yet.</p>

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<p>If I may give you some advice (I went to a school much like TAMS for two years (residential), and am heading off to MIT): ****ing own at science and math. Have fun, but start really figuring out how to totally own in terms of science and math stuff. Try to rock in the classroom, take hard classes. Do only the clubs that you really feel advance your abilities. Take risks and get serious about whatever you do. I can not express how important it is that you blaze your own trail for the next two years and stand apart, however you figure out how to do that.</p>

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<p>bump....10 chr</p>