<p>P.S. Jimmy, you can take online AP classes through UCCP if you want. A little costly but I'm not sure of the exact price... <a href="http://www.uccp.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.uccp.org</a></p>
<p>If anyone is wondering, I AM NOT looking forward to rejecting colleges. It's just as difficult for me to reject them as it is for them to reject me. I'm not sadistic.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm not looking forward to rejecting colleges either. That's assuming I get into more than one though...I just want to get the process over with.</p>
<p>Yeah. I felt really bad turning down Swarthmore and Brown...I felt like I was leading them on after visiting and everything..</p>
<p>Vicious. Truly vicious.</p>
<p>(This is not a bump).</p>
<p>I have to plan myself better. Just waiting for this junior year to be over first. Too overwhelmed with tooo many tests. But summer is almost here and I will be just as organised as theo...</p>
<p>Me? I don't think I'm that organized. My guidance counselor asked all of us to fill out packets about ourselves so she can get us to know better. Mine was due a month ago and I've gotten two personal notes about it. If I don't hand it in by Friday she's going to call my parents. And I think I have only 2 days to get a teacher to agree to be my advisor for my independent study course. And I've barely started studying for my AP's - three of which I'm self-studying for. And I'm not ready for my SAT II. And I just accepted a job as a tutor beyond my regular weekly volunteerwork tutoring. And I just got inducted into NHS, which means more tutoring. And I haven't told my Dad that I didn't get into Princeton's program for local high school students (taking undergrad courses at Princeton University since we live so close) because of my single B in physics. Which means he's not going to like the fact that I'm at risk for 4 more B's this year.</p>
<p>Eeks.</p>
<p>In three weeks I should be organized. Let's see if I can survive until then.</p>
<p>Don't worry about the B in physics. There are superhumans that are good at that stuff, but for us mere mortals, it's gibberish. I have a B+ (marginally, 87.02632) and I'm in TOTAL survival mode. I just want to SURVIVE physics (hopefully with a 87.0).</p>
<p>Yeah, physics is over and I'm over the B. But my Dad's not going to like how that kept me out of a year of taking classes at Princeton (granted, I don't like it either, but I forgive, forget, and move on, while he dwells on illusions and things he can't change).</p>
<p>Right now I'm just stressing out about my grades in my classes. AP's aren't as big a concern, although I REALLY want the National AP Scholar award (the reason why I'm taking so many exams) and I probably won't report any grades below a 5 to colleges, but that isn't as much stress as personal aspirations that take a back seat to grades.</p>
<p>my plan
may 1: AP English Comp
may 5: AP US History
may 12: AP Latin, Vergil (which i'm completely and utterly not prepared for)
SAT IIs May 6 (math I, US history, english lit)
june 10 ACT (for last time)</p>
<p>i will definitely apply EA for chicago, UGA (safety), oxford college of emory (for financial options), and georgetown
RD: rhodes (probably sewanee, agnes scott, american, bryn mawr), Alabama for my other safety (i get free tuition)</p>
<p>MY PERILOUS ROAD:
April 1, 2006: SATI-1940 (630V/660M/650W)
May 1, 2006: AP French Language Examination
May 5, 2006: AP United States History Examination
May 6, 2006: SATII French, US History, Mathematics IIC, Job Fair (for summer)
May 30, 2006: English Final
June 1, 2006: Physics Final
June 3, 2006: SATI</p>
<p>Summer
Possible: Job
Possible: Summer business program at Dickinson College
Visit NYU</p>
<p>Fall (CRUNCH TIME!!!)</p>
<p>ROUND 1
Early October: University of Michigan
Nov 1, 2006:
-NYU Stern ED
-University of Chicago EA
-Boston College EA
-Babson College EA</p>
<p>Winter</p>
<p>ROUND 1.5 (hopefully)
Dec 15, 2006: (hopefully) Collect acceptances from
-NYU Stern ED
-University of Chicago EA
-University of Michigan
Notify College Counselor/College Center.
Be congratulated 50000x by college counselors
Be congratulated 50000 times by friends for making NYU.</p>
<p>ROUND 2: (I hope I can skip this-if I don't get into NYU or Mich or Chicago)
In no particular order
-University of Maryland, Smith School of Biz
-Indiana University, Kelley School of Biz
-Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Biz
-Wesleyan University
-Northeastern University, College of Biz
-Etc.</p>
<p>ROUND 2.5
Around Feb or March:
-Send in my last housing form to NYU Stern.
-Tell College Counselor/College Center that I'm going to NYU Stern.
-Visit NYU again/go to an admitted students reception.
-Make NYU friends.
-Tell friend who will go to Pratt(Brooklyn,NY) in 06.</p>
<p>Spring</p>
<p>ROUND 3
March to May
-Reject Colleges (ideally only Mich and Chicago-NYU ED=have to go to NYU)
-Stop myself from going too deep into senioritis
-Keep rocking with grades
-Get a 5 on AP Econ, AP Euro, AP Calc AB, and AP Enviro
May 24-25: Disneyland Senior Trip
May 27: Graduation!!!!
May 27, night: SENIOR CRUISE!!!</p>
<p>I had some erroneous info on the one before.</p>
<p>I'll post my road map too</p>
<p>May:
AP Tests: Spanish, english, biology, and us history
SAT II's: biology, us history, literature</p>
<p>June:
ACT
SAT</p>
<p>Summer:
Either
Paid cancer research internship (really want this one!)
or Business program (second choice)
or a UCLA class</p>
<p>October 15
Apply Harvard EA</p>
<p>November
Mail UC apps</p>
<p>Dec
Send rest of apps
Get Harvard acceptance (hopefully!)</p>
<p>April 29 - CSHP test
May 1 - AP Lang, AP HumGeo
May 2 - AP Stats
May 3 - AP Calc
May 5 - birthday/license
May 6 - SAT II Chem
May 10 - AP Chem, AP Psych
May 20 - lobbying in DC with my Amnesty International club
May ?? - debate competition at Rutgers
June 2 - maybe Prom
June 9 - club party at Chuck E. Cheese (which I had to organize)
June 10 - ACT
June 2 - last day of finals
July 2 - go to Gov School!</p>
<p>In the summer, I'll be writing essays.</p>
<p>Then in the fall...</p>
<p>September - apply to Rutgers and Michigan
October - apply SCEA to Yale
November/December - apply to Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and a couple extra matches + interviews, get into Yale, rescind apps from schools I would never consider over Yale</p>
<p>FreshElephant--I'd highly suggest doing the UC app online.</p>
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<p>Is it that much easier? But yeah, I'll probably end up doing it online.</p>
<p>theoneo looks like you are gonna have a "pretty" busy summer. hope you do well:)</p>
<p>As for me, I'm just going to focus on several things for the summer:</p>
<p>SAT I (If I don't do well next sat.)
SAT II (If I don't do well in June, and also study for SAT II French)
1-2 college credit courses
Work experience/volunteer (maybe, but I've finished 250+ hrs already in grade 9 and 10, so perhaps no need for that)</p>
<p>AND... Something real special (and big).</p>
<p>That's about it. Relatively a quiet, focused summer.</p>
<p>I just recently discovered how to improve my time-management skills. If I do work in a room other than this room (with my computer in it), I get a LOT more done.</p>
<p>I haven't known productivity in so long...</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm totally killing myself this summer in terms of the workload I'm bringing onto myself. The whole Princeton this has kinda bummed me out and right now my grades in 4 classes are at risk. I totally regret not working harder earlier in the year, and now I'm feeling more industrious than ever. Soo this summer I'm packing everything I can in to prove to myself (and I guess colleges, too) that I really don't suck. :)</p>
<p>So I just pulled an all-nighter, just barely finishing all my work. Then I told my Mom I don't want to go to school. Haha I think I'm going insane.</p>
<p>Oh, theoneo, you and I are in the same boat ! I now bitterly regret of not being really diligent this year, and thus my results aren't satisfactory. This summer will be totally different.
Haha, another funny fact is I am never productive with a computer by my side :D</p>
<p>MY PERILOUS ROAD:
April 1, 2006: SATI-2200 (770/720/710)
May 1, 2006: AP English Language Examination
May 3, 2006: AP Calculus AB Examination
May 5, 2006: AP United States History Examination
May something: Chemistry, ROTC, Debate, Drama Finals.
June 3, 2006: SATI (Again, curses)
June 10, 2006: ACT</p>
<p>Summer
Stanford National Forensics Institute
Cornell University Summer College
Volunteer Time (?)</p>
<p>Fall (CRUNCH TIME!!!)</p>
<p>ROUND 1
<em>tentative</em>
October-December:
SAT II: (Chemistry, Math IIC, Literature)
UMiami (early)
Stanford University
Cornell University
Rice University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Universityof Southern California
University of Michigan</p>
<p>*and some others by then</p>
<p>Winter
ROUND 2:
Cuss/Dance depending on acceptances/rejections
Burn my books
Realize what I've done and scramble to steal new ones
Laugh at my own idiocy</p>
<p>Spring</p>
<p>Dance like there' no tomorrow</p>
<p>I'm going to every school dance next year. This year I couldn't go to one because it was the week before the PSAT, one was the day after the SAT, and I can't go to Junior Prom tomorrow because of AP's.</p>
<p>AHH.</p>
<p>Next year I'm going all out.</p>