for JUNIORS who are ready to get onto THE PERILOUS ROAD

Applying to College
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My wallet would be a lot emptier though, seeing as how I would then race over to Stanford one weekend and buy out every single sweatshirt, shorts, pants, etc. that they have lol.

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<p>lol yeah chillaxin....well I'll be doing the same thing...but I'll do it in feb when I finish all the paperwork, and then I'll have to fly over to New York (from CA...I feel bad for people who go to NYU from China, or even Hawaii-mainly because the flight is so damn long) so I can buy out the NYU bookstore.</p>

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<p>PKI=Paramount's Kings Island (Cincinnati, OH). Our grade when we went (6th) was the youngest group of kids I saw there, most were in high school.</p>

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<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>

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<p>im terrified of my summer, lets just say i left most things for the summer including community service, internship, extended essay, job, and dual enrollment.w/e i guess it'll be worth it when i finally get accepted into fsu, uf or umich.</p>

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<p>scared x_x</p>

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<p>Ahh... this week is soo chaotic. Just finished 4 AP tests in 3 days, birthday/driver's test tomorrow (which means my uncle is coming over so we can go out for dinner), and then my last SAT II the day after!! Then two AP's next Wednesday (one self study)... ahh!</p>

<p>I've gotten to miss SO much class, though. On Monday I had AP's all day, on Tuesday I missed first half to study for Stats, and then I had Stats for second half, on Wednesday I had Calc, and then we got back so late that I only had one class. Today I had a full day, but we're not doing anything in any of my classes cause I'm in 5 AP's and they're pretty much over. Tomorrow I'm missing my first two classes for my driver's test, and then the rest of my classes are BS.</p>

<p>Oh and my Chem teacher left last Friday cause she's having triplets. Our sub for the rest of the year is the volleyball coach. He just sits there watching ESPN and curses at students once in a while (in a friendly way, though... like "you're *<strong><em>ting me"). I don't really mind, since I got some SAT II studying done AND played Kemps and Chinese poker. But if he curses at me, he is so getting fired cause I don't need to take *</em></strong> from a sub. Oh and we have more than a month left of school...! AND since we have sub we don't have lab anymore! Which means once a week I have almost two full hours of lunch.</p>

<p>This week is unexpectedly awesome. :p</p>

<p>If this is what peril feels like, I want some more!</p>

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<p>^What do people do in their AP classes once they take the test? I mean most students, seniors are the exception, still have school up until june right?</p>

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<p>I have a project as a final in every single AP class. Go figure.</p>

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<p>in my friends' AP classes, they are doing NOTHING. just watching videos and vegetating until school ends. pretty sweet life, i must say. but they deserve it for all the late nights and hard work theyve put in for those classes.</p>

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<p>AP Calc - learning BC/MVC topics with no homework or quizes
AP Chem - we have a sub for the rest of the year, so we're not doing anything; if our teacher had stayed, we would have done "fun" labs, including some orgo
AP Bio - research project
AP Lang - still the same stuff sans AP MC practices
AP US - project</p>

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<p>In our classes finals were right after spring break, before the ap's...so NO ONE has been back to class...thank god after months and months of an incredible amount of b.s. busy work which in no way helped my score im happy its over. only thing to worry about is if i'll get my ib diploma.</p>

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<p>Ugh. I'm just getting into things--I took my SATs in January, got a 2120 (730 M, 700 CR and 690 W) and signed up for SAT II Math I, Literature, and French for the June session, sat two of my three AP's already (AP Lang and AP Calc, still have Bio to go) and plan on retaking the SAT I's in October. My list of schools is as follows:</p>

<p>McGill Faculty of Arts
Barnard College
U Chicago
Boston U
UBC
Lewis and Clark
Another safety in the Northwest
U of Toronto?
University of Hawaii-Manoa because my mother says I have to--I'm from Hilo, Hawaii, so she wants the safetiest of safeties. </p>

<p>The big deal for me is merit based aid, so I'll most likely end up at McGill (Tri citizenship--Canada, UK, US) if I can get in. I hope so!</p>

<p>I'm doing a visiting of the northwest, so hopefully I'll see some interesting things. I'm really nervous though--where we go will decide what we'll make of our lives. </p>

<p>As for my AP Classes, my teachers are SADISTS. In my AP Lang class, we're reading novel after novel after novel--right now it's Of Mice and Men. In AP Calc we still have the cumulative final, and in AP Bio we're going to do all the labs we didn't do--I'm not looking forward to it.</p>

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<p>^Come on dude.. Mice and men, its like 100 pages. Suck it up sissy boy. lol, j/k. Yeah I know how you feel. G'luck with all those novels.</p>

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<p>I read Of Mice and Men in like 5 hours. That was in freshman year. We had to read it over spring break.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it's super short. But see, we're still going to have to discuss the heck out of it, and then we're probably going to read the equally cheerful (cough) Grapes of Wrath, and other gems of American literature. I don't mind so much, it's just that I feel it's not entirely necessary in an AP Lang course.</p>

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<p>Mice and Men? Go for it. Grapes of Wrath? I pity you. That's gonna be hell. I recommend sparknotes.</p>

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<p>^sparknotes is the best thing that could've happened to high school students.</p>

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<p>Pinkmonkey is also good,too... I've just realized that in a few weeks, we will have to start a new thread, and call it "FOR RISING SENIORS(Class of '07) WHO ARE OFFICIALLY ON THE PERILOUS ROAD"</p>

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<p><em>Insert freaked-out screaming</em></p>

<p>lol. How did time fly by so fast?</p>

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<p>omg. so true. i feel old, even if i'm not.</p>