<p>I’ve worked at the local hospital for 6 or so every Saturday and Sunday. I love it because I work with infants. I hold the babies who are orphans when they cry, I change diapers, I feed them, etc. I really enjoy it. I got started after my sister spent 2 weeks in the hospital and you could just hear the poor babies crying with no one there to comfort them. My mom asked about it and they said there’s someone who comes in and helps with the babies (but that person was sick at the time). When the babies are okay, I work with the other kids in the play area. </p>
<p>But, I don’t have many other extracurriculars, so I’m hoping that my hours (the school includes them on my transcript) will make up for it.</p>
<p>^that’s so cool! I have a bit more than 100 :/</p>
<p>@Mystical: I’m not fluent in Japanese. Compared to a native, I’m probably an advance beginner. Maybe intermediate. I went through a Year 1 and Year 2 of a Japanese college course easily. I’m much better at understanding than producing, but that will come with time! :)</p>
<p>@mysticalkites, yea, I have some more colleges for RD if all else fails. So far that ones that I will definitely apply to RD if I don’t get into Rice are WUSTL and Tufts. I have about 6 or 7 more schools that I have to narrow down this summer. I’m just hoping I can get in early and be done.</p>
<p>@1rachel94, I think that your community service will definitely make up for it, and even show a lot more passion since you have that much commitment for one activity.</p>
<p>Once the seniors leave your school, everyone moves up a grade. So it depends on when the seniors leave/left. My school’s seniors left 2 weeks ago, but we also don’t get out for another 2 weeks.</p>
<p>I’m with leah, you’re not a senior until you walk into school in August.
But the seniors still haven’t left here anyway, so even by your standard I’m a junior.</p>
<p>Same. My GC’s put a limit on the number of schools I can apply to and I … ugh! I need to visit a few more (even though I’ve already visited, like, fifteen).</p>
<p>I’ve visited zero because NYU and GWU don’t really have campuses so they don’t count. I don’t really care what it’s like. Maybe after I get in I’ll bother visiting.</p>
<p>The top 25 universities all have stellar academics. At that point I put it to more of what I like about the school, as long as it has the programs I want.</p>
<p>people seem to look at colleges differently both before and after they visit them anyways, so I figured visiting wouldn’t help much anyways. plus, I don’t want to fall in love with a school I might get rejected from</p>
<p>@CSIHSIS yay! twins! I’m looking at NYU as well… :D</p>
<p>I’m looking at schools in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Austin. I only visited NYU and Barnard so far while I was in the city. I loved NYU, but I crossed Barnard off my list.</p>
<p>I’m visiting a bunch of schools in the Boston area this summer and visiting California in October!</p>