<p>I'm an Asian (Chinese):
played football freshman year; injured wrist.
basketball, letterman sophomore year</p>
<p>Does this prove that I'm not a "super asian nerd"? Is that a good thing?</p>
<p>yes. You arent an asian supernerd. its a good thing</p>
<p>I'm indian, and not the typical indian nerd.</p>
<p>I graduated in 3 years so these are my H.S sports</p>
<p>-Varsity Cross country - 1 year, letter and Coach's award
-Varsity Soccer, 3 years - MVP Defense 1 year, 2 year's coach's award, co-captain junior year (very selective team, only 30% of the 60 get on).
-Varsity Softball 1 year, NECIS (a european int'l school conference) MVP</p>
<p>My American soccer team can so kick your european soccer team's butt!! lol. Woo go America! And if we dont, we can just buy out your players. Woo Capitalism!</p>
<p>I'm the greatest chess player you will ever find. It builds my arm muscles.</p>
<p>Does this prove that I'm not a "super asian nerd" as well?</p>
<p>no</p>
<p>but yea... no</p>
<p>I play...</p>
<p>[Note: I'm a junior] </p>
<p>Swimming - 11 years (and counting) - Varsity all three years, competitive club swimming in addition to high school
Cross Country - 7 years (and counting) - Varsity 2/3 years (I didn't do CC freshman year)
Tennis - 3 years (and counting) - Varsity 1/2 years (this season has yet to start)</p>
<p>I have a question though... on your application, especially if you apply EA, how can you put your sport status (ie, varsity, captain) for senior year? For example, I'm going to be captain of the swim team (and possibly the tennis team) next year, but swimming doesn't start until mid-November and tennis doesn't start until Spring. Do you put these things down even though they haven't started? And on that note, do you differentiate between the years you played Varsity and the years you played JV on your application? For example, do you put "freshman year - JV, soph-senior year - Var"?</p>
<p>first see if you can get recruited, because i know the coaches at Harvard have pretty good pull in the admissions office (at least with my experiences). to answer your other question aout activities senior year, just email or send by snail mail your new accomplishments before december 1st because i know for some of the ivies (not sure about harvard) they dont even consider ED applications until december 1st.</p>
<p>dude, if the sport doesnt allow you to make physical contact with another person, it shouldnt be considered a sport...i'd probably exempt crew and swimming from this list even though im not a fan...</p>
<p>golf, tennis, table tennis, quiz bowl, shuffle board, skiing,diving....[insert more country club sports here]</p>
<p>running?? how about running? we work our ***'s off! also, i think tennis constitutes a sport because you really have to work to keep up with the game. unless your a 50 year old woman playing doubles your gonna have to move. And yeah, non contact sports are the way to go if you want to avoid getting cushy and showering with big sweaty men. just my .02</p>
<p>btw: i said men not because im sexist and i think only men play contact sports, but because i just want to avoid the reaction id get from "showering with hot sweaty women..."</p>
<p>dude...playing tennis or golf is a total cop out...</p>
<p>grow a sack and play a real sport man....</p>
<p>I play sports, but not on our school's teams. They suck and they are limited.</p>
<p>Outside of school, I play football, rugby, soccer, and street fighting (this one isn't really a sport as much as it is a bunch of guys getting bored and kicking each other's asses). I also like paintballin' (I don't use a "g" on these words), muddin', and target shootin'.</p>
<p>if you guys do all these things, howcome you have the time to get like 4.0s. 1500s and like do all this other crap? I smell some liars...</p>
<p><---goes to an easy school. It's EXTREMELY liberal, and some teachers won't grade.</p>
<p>I don't get any homework. Occasionally, a major project. But, really, I get alot of freetime. I would have gone to the school that is a bit more challenging, but the district cried out "population constraints." I hate that damn district.</p>
<p>God! I wish I would have gone to my homeschool, I so would have been Val, but no, I had to go to a Newsweek 100 school. Damn. They give us so much homework!! Like 6 hours worth everyday!! Not counting studying for exams!! The only way I can do ECs is because almost everyone just copies each other in the stupid hw questions/math problems, more like massive copying. However, I dont feel wrong because its just stupid busywork. At Harvard we actually got intellectually stimulating work, not stupid "Why are there two political parties?" crap.</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>We have some stimulating conversations in class and introduce new opinions. We just don't get alot of work. Plus, our SAT prep sucks, so we have dismal scores (avg 879).Also, dha, you'd love it here... the teachers detest the middle and upper class schools. They always badmouth them.</p>
<p>ahh!! Dreamschool!! Damn lol. out average SAT is like 1050. And you can barely get in a stimulating conversation because everyone is so stuck to the status quo!!! I swear after I graduate from Harvard, I am gonna go back to my school, buy it out, burn it down, and put a parking lot there.</p>
<p>1050? And, it's a top 100 school?</p>
<p>That's the average of our district (we and a few others bring it down).
A third of the schools are over 1100 (5 out of 15), with 1201, 1179, 1150, 1120, 1101 respectively. Yeah, corrupt system gives them all the money :(. They make "charter schools" to keep their communities' money. Though I don't detest the middle and upper class, I do not like that kind of money shuffling. </p>
<p>BTW, I live in metro-Atlanta, and the district is on the urban frindge, but we're in the URBAN part (7,000-15,000/sq mi) right in the ghetto (you can see the skyline). I still can't believe they can do a system like that. ****es me off.</p>
<p>Do you go to Stuy by any chance?</p>
<p>oh yeah? you think your school is bad?? i go to a straight out da hood south central wisconsin school. were so hardcore one time this mexican and white kid pushed into each other and it had to be stopped by a teacher. There are so many kids in the G-Unit in our school. A bunch of white kids dress like 50 cent so we must be hardcore. Oh yeah, one of them might even have a tattoo. betcha think ya cant compete now punk! </p>
<p>Yeah, we live in a town with one pub high school so all the $$$ flows into it. Also the largest employer here is this huge top 20 clinc we have here. so all these doctors who support their kids education are paying the bills. we just had a referendum and now we have even more money. We have one private school that has like 50 kids a class and is gonna go under soon. we have more ap's available then any school north of madison. my gc's all actaully are nice people and want to help me. So basically im set in one of the best schools ever. good for me. (yeah i really got lucky here)</p>