<p>Bumppppppp!!!</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Race: Asian
Top College: Duke
State: NJ
Grades: 3.83 UW 4.17 W
Rank 45/700</p>
<p>My top choice is Columbia or Carleton.
I’m male, Asian, uhh…grades = ****ty (CC scale of course, 3.725 UW, which puts me in top 10%, UW = 4.785), PSAT: 224
ECs: Geography Club, Model UN, Mu Alpha Theta, IDEAS (Environmental), Science Club, Literary Magazine. </p>
<p>Personality: A++++++.</p>
<p>Sex: Female
Race: Black
Top College: Michigan
State: Maryland
Grades: 3.04 GPA unweighted
Rank: County doesn’t rank
Ecs: Ivory, Class Office, Warm up America, Sign Language, Homework Hotline, Varsity Volleyball manager, Ambassadors</p>
<p>
Ha. Ha. Ha.</p>
<p>Are any of you self-studying Ap exams?</p>
<p>^^ Yo, Christina School District is offering free AP exams this year so I don’t know if I should self-study or not. I mean, it’s free but I don’t think I can cram so much knowledge in the span of three months.</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Race: White
Top College: Villanova
State: Maryland
Grades: 1 B in Hnrs English Frosh Year, Most likely straight A’s soph year with an A in AP World
PSAT: 174, with a 50 in writing…
Rank: Never been told ranking, but im guessing top 10%
Ecs: JV Baseball 2 years, Varsity Golf 2 Years, HOPE Club.</p>
<p>oh plus an A in trig/precalc…</p>
<p>nickfan- it is early. but the OP ripped off of my 2012 thread :P</p>
<p>@Mrluggs</p>
<p>Self-studying for the Env Sci, Bio, and Us Gov and Politics. I’m in APUSH.</p>
<p>@Franticpizza- Well it depends on the exam. I’m studying APHG becuase I’ve always had an innate passion for it. MY school doesn’t offer the class though -___- . But anyway, I think 3 months is more than enough time for APHG. But for other APs, probably not.</p>
<p>@Aj- How do you manage? Do you seriously have time for all of that?</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Race: Asian Indian
Top College: Yale
State: California
Grades: All As this year (4.5 W GPA, only 1 AP though)
Rank: 1/492
Ecs: Nothing too major, apart from over 500+ hours at the public library… but honestly, that’s quite it =</p>
<p>Sex: Female
Race: Asian 
Top College: …Berkeley, Northeastern, or Duke.
State: California
Grades: All As, two Bs
Rank 17/692
Ecs:
-Key Club Division 15 Bulletin Editor & Cali-Nev-Ha Graphics Department
-NHSHSS
-JETS TEAMS Frosh-Soph team Captain
-Robotics (Co-captain this year)
-JV Track&Field 2 yrs
-Yearbook Staff Manager
-Going to ‘found’ a program to teach kids art at a hospital and wildlife at an elementary school later this year</p>
<p>how come my post number doesn’t increase whenever i post here? :(</p>
<p>^ <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/553086-hs-life-post-counts.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/553086-hs-life-post-counts.html</a></p>
<p>@MrLuggs</p>
<p>I’m typing this all up on my phone and am loathe to delete it…the tl;dr version is at the bottom.</p>
<p>I’ve been taught basically everything in the Govt exam since 8th grade (8th grade social studies, 9th grade LSN, and now 10th grade APUSH) It’s a review now, so I’m just going to the REA crash course and noting down things I don’t know. The curve on this test is ridiculous - 75%+ is supposed to get you an A.</p>
<p>The Environmental Science exam is Bio + Earth and Space Science + Common sense. I’m going through the Princeton review book and writing down what I don’t know/isn’t obvious. The curve on this one is even more ridiculous - according to the PR, 60%+ = 5.</p>
<p>For Bio I’m going to go through CliffsNotes and mark down what I don’t know. My honors Bio teacher is the AP Bio teacher and the only thing he hasn’t taught us is basic anatomy - everything else will be a review.</p>
<p>For my clubs, I have very little time commitment. I invite a friend over every weekend for 5ish hours to work on a MESA presentation, I have to run my 14-member Key Club, and that’s it right now. </p>
<p>For my schoolwork, since I go to a crappy public school (taking notes is optional in EVERY class but Engineering), I have minimal homework. I understand concepts and finish work faster then the majority of my classmates and so can finish most Bio, Trig, and Engineering homework before I’ve left school. I can normally finish my APUSH homework in class and my Spanish teacher rarely gives homework. My English teacher assigns us journals and two projects a quarter, but the journals are due every 2 weeks and the projects every 4. She normally doesn’t give us any homework other than those things. </p>
<p>The biggest time guzzler is swimming. I’ve joined a local year-round competitive swim team and will be going to their hour-and-a-half practices as much as possible. </p>
<p>tl;dr:</p>
<p>Little schoolwork + little clubwork + I know most of it already = Yes, I do have the time.</p>
<p>Wow.
Well good luck</p>
<p>@Aj, mind sharing your test scores? (PSAT, SAT, AP tests, etc)</p>
<p>Testing is not my strong suit. </p>
<p>7th grade SAT - No idea. Qualified for CTY.
PSAT Fresh - 179
PSAT Soph - 197
SAT Mock - 1930 :(</p>
<p>All of this was with absolutely zero prep. Good score jump b/c of natural knowledge, so I’m hoping for a 30+ score jump with prep next time. </p>
<p>I was planning on taking mock APs through the school before I did any at home, but the only one they’re offering is the Env Sci, which is later this week. Due to my laziness, I haven’t yet taken a mock outside of school. I’m worrying about messing up on the tests and will probably take some mocks in two weeks or so.</p>