for SENIORS who are ready to get onto the PERILOUS ROAD.

Applying to College
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<p>:):)Welcome, Seniors! We've finally made it through our perilous junior year, as it can be shown through our great input of suggestions, concerns, and accomplishments we've posted on the previous "for JUNIORS who are ready to get onto the PERILOUS ROAD" thread (which proved to be extremely popular among the many juniors on CC). </p>

<p>As a new school year eerily approaches, we will find ourselves with new questions, problems, and despondent moments when we will be at a complete loss. Yet, many of us will also come to face the eventual moment of elated success, after placing the finishing touches on our many extraordinary accomplishments. </p>

<p>No matter what the results are, the key thing for us seniors is to remain in a constantly calm yet positive state of mind. Let us also cherish the celebrated ideals of an openness to new ideas, a passion in service to the common good, and mutual respect for others. </p>

<p>I know that this may sound like a cliched speech given by the typical politician. Yet, we can agree that they are also some of the universal truths to success. Let us seniors now start this journey on the PERILOUS ROAD. Good Luck.:):)</p>

<p>Jimmy@Killarney</p>

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<p>Thanks for the speech good luck to you to</p>

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<p>2nd and 3rd paragraphs sound very good... almost like an excerpt from an essay you'd write for SAT lol.</p>

<p>Let's hope for a great end to our high school careers and a bright beginning to our college years.</p>

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<p>i still have to put up with 4 more days of junior year...</p>

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<p>6 more for me... heh.</p>

<p>I'm SOOOOOOO stoked for senior year. I am so ready for this.</p>

<p>352 days until prom!
366 days until graduation!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the thread! The speech was very encouraging..you could probably use half of it for a valedictory speech.</p>

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<p>I have my last day of school tomorrow. I still have a ton of work, though. :(</p>

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<p>You guys are still in school?!?!?!?!?!?! What the heck? I got out of school over 3 weeks ago, and some of you still have next week? Dang! </p>

<p>I guess I make up for it though when I go back to school on August 10th (which is actually the latest we have started school).</p>

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<p>I got out of school in May, and we go back in mid August.</p>

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<p>I get out tomorrow and go back in early September (it was the 8th last year, I think).</p>

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<p>OP: YEAH!! Haha I just love the "perilous road" expression :) </p>

<p>Good luck fellow '07ers!! We have one more summer, one more semester, and everything that we've worked for (well, not really, but in terms of college) would be over!!</p>

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<p>A tip advice: Don't get senioritis. Can't stress that enough.</p>

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<p>senior year was boring/lame</p>

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<p>Me too, I still have one more week of school FILLED with gigantic exams (and a french teacher who asked me in her nicest way today to clean out her room. I couldn't say no since it was such a random request in the middle of the class...)</p>

<p>I get out after june 22, and come back to school again in early december (that is if our teachers don't strike again like last year. They just recently took a "strike vote" and it seems like 84% of our teachers voted "yes" to a september strike. Great. Who's gonna write my recs if that happens!)</p>

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<p>thanks =} I'm getting more and more nervous and anxious about senior year... its the anticipation.</p>

<p>jimmy@killarney- email them over the summer. or request them now and say you want to have a early one before the rush + strike. and plus it'd still be fresh in their minds.</p>

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<p>Good luck guys. I'll try to help people out with college admissions every once in a while the best I can. It's a pretty lame process. :)</p>

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<p>Are you guys starting on college apps yet (i.e. looking at potential colleges and starting to collect forms?)</p>

<p>I haven't...haha.</p>

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<p>Definitely, oasis. :] Heh. I actually have an application binder where I have all the essays I wrote for summer programs, recs that my teachers showed me, copies of my transcript, copies of last year's Stanford, Yale, and UC applications, and possible essay topics that I've been thinking of. I'm the type of person who needs to be thinking of essay topics in the back of their mind for quite a while for them to turn out well though.</p>

<p>Can you believe that we only have FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS until early apps are due?</p>

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<p>It's fine. For me and my friend it was like "okay, EA due this weekend...should we even bother to apply? Alright I guess we should. Time to start on it."</p>

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<p>I've looked at the essay prompts from the schools on my list that already have them up, but I haven't started writing any essays. I'll probably start to compile a list of ideas on what I should write my essays about, start listing the strong points of the schools, and the reasons each particular school interested me for the "Why______"? Essay.</p>