<p>I have a thesis essay and a DBQ essay for IB History due tomorrow, and a huge thesis paper for the same class the next day. I’m taking three subject tests on Saturday, and I just don’t feel prepared for them. I just took a US History Sparknotes test and got a 640. I’m just worried that I’m going to bomb all three and won’t have time to retake them so I can still apply EA. :(</p>
<p>@yankeesfanatic
Georgia Tech too!!! Are you from the East coast, West coast, Midwest?</p>
<p>Engineering major here too!! Biomedical to be exact. I really want to go to Penn, Johns Hopkins, or Carnegie Mellon (top 3 choices), maybe even Duke. I should also mention that I’ll be doing the pre-med track (I love math and I’m a very hands on person, but I still really want to go to med school).</p>
<p>I am done with all the standardized tests. 
I have narrowed my list to 14 schools. I am SCEAing at Stanford. I want to major in Mechanical Engineering. I will be applying to HYPSM+UCB/LA+PennState+GTech+BU+UIUC. I am done with my main CommonApp essay. Currently, I am procrastinating on the college supplements. :p</p>
<p>@Mrinal2207: Jeez, you’re so ahead of me @.@ I haven’t even touched the Common Application yet! I have several ideas, but I’m doing a lot of cool things this summer, so I’m going to wait until August. :P</p>
<p>“procrastinating on the supplements?” are the supplements even out? lol</p>
<p>If that’s the case, I’m “procrastinating” on everything.</p>
<p>^lol, I saw the last year supplements and I don’t think they change every year. I will be going to summer@brown this summer. I just published my research paper last week. 
How is it going guys??</p>
<p>^ Well some of the colleges never change their supplements over the school years so you could just find the prompt from last year online. </p>
<p>I think I’m going to start with my hometest drawings and essays for RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) and then start on my U of Oregon drawings and essay. Some of my schools don’t use CommonApp (at least U of Oregon does not for Architecture) so they have really specific essays and drawing prompts. </p>
<p>So far the schools I’m pretty sure about applying to are: U of Oregon, RISD, Cornell, Pratt, Syracuse, U of Kentucky, Tulane, Cooper Union, Drexel, Carnegie Mellon U, Rensselaer Poly, and U of Cincinnati, and USC. </p>
<p>I want to ED to some of my schools: but how many may be to many schools?</p>
<p>^Do you mean EA? ED is binding, and you can only ED to one school.</p>
<p>I really need to get on applications and essays for my schools… I’m just so busy/trying to relax a little bit. Then again, I don’t need to draw for my major… :P</p>
<p>^ Opps, sorry, I meant EA, I think I’m applying to either RISD or Cornell as my ED school because they my others schools have EA. I was trying to ask how many EA schools would be to many.</p>
<p>You guys need to narrow down your list! Jeez! Take a break and just enjoy your free schooling while it lasts haha.</p>
<p>And since we’re on that track, here are my schools;</p>
<p>Augustana College (SF, SD)
Case Western Pre-professional Program
University of Cincinnati Connections program/CCM
University of Hartford
U of Iowa
U Kansas
U of Minn Twin Cities</p>
<p>^ Haha, I wish, but I’m trying to get all my stuff done this summer becuase I know when I get into school in August I’m just going to want to enjoy my senior year and probably will get severe senioritis in the process, lol.</p>
<p>^Apply to all the EA schools as you can! That’s what I’m doing. I just want to figure out where I’m going as soon as possible. :P</p>
<p>I study Japanese for 3 hours and the ACT for 1.5 everyday. Once it hits noon, I’m free and I’m enjoying summer! Reading, writing, running, playing tennis, etc. At least this week. Next week will be a bit more hectic.</p>
<p>And my post was irreverent…</p>
<p>Suddenly having a life crisis and now i’m unsure if my planned major is right for me. 
I think deep down I know that I don’t have to have my whole life figured out at the tender age of 17, but I feel the pressure from my parents to pick something with a guaranteed job offer straight out of college that is practical, and the pressure from my teachers to push myself harder, because they must see something in me that I don’t. During lunch today, my SASI (JROTC instructor) told me I should seriously think about going to med school. </p>
<p>I mean, I love the idea of nursing because I love taking care of people. The reality of it, according to my SASI (who hired nurses at MGH and worked in hospitals for a long time), is that a lot of nurses become frustrated by their autonomy and the lack of it at the same time. Even though they get to know their patients and are overall advocates for their care, in the end it’s the doctor who makes the call. So, as he said, why not be the one in charge? Not to mention I seriously am doubting that i’d get into a nursing program, given how competitive they are, and i’m not one of those 2350 SAT wiz kids. I’m competitive, but not uber-competitive.</p>
<p>Also, a memory just came to me…I visited our family friends a few months ago, and while they’re both retired now, he was a doctor and she was a nurse. After I told them I was considering nursing, the first thing that came out of her mouth was “Don’t.” Yikes.</p>
<p>But truthfully…I don’t feel passionately about sciences, not as passionately as I feel about other things. I love learning in general, really. I’m good at chemistry and biology but the thought of doing it for the rest of my life doesn’t really get me excited. Learning about the world gets me excited; learning about other people in other places, how they live, their cultures, how they influence the world today. The best part of the school year for me is when we gear up to compete in our regional International Economic Summit. But what do I do with that?</p>
<p>Wow, that was like, totally long-winded and uber-personal, but since lunch today I suddenly have this knot in my stomach about my future, but at the same time i’m hunkered down at my computer, ready to do some research. I hate being stuck in this situation, because i’m a meticulous person and I like to plan things out; I hate uncertainty, but i’m gradually becoming accepting of it. But for college, uncertainty is not an option for me.</p>
<p>^ There are always so many more options. I had a cousin who wanted to become a pharmacist, but after some rough semesters he instead transferred to a nursing program and has been happy there ever since. You don’t have to be a genius to get into a nursing program, but just try to keep it up. Plus a physician has so much more to worry about, and not to mention the stress and schooling and everything that does into getting that title.
If you are unsure if you want to pursue medical school, odds are you shouldn’t.</p>
<p>Plus there tons of other options. If you like caring for people, you could still be a nurse. A physicians assistant ¶ is also an option, they’re a higher up the chain than nursing but also are much more competitive programs. I’m currently enrolled in an EMT class, and if you are an adrenaline junky and just want to help people, EMS might be for you as well. Paramedic school is relatively short and you could start working in no time. </p>
<p>Healthcare has so many options out there. You just need to go find what you look. Schedule some job shadows and see if it’s for you.</p>
<p>Eh, as I look at other healthcare careers I start to doubt whether I want to work in healthcare more and more…</p>
<p>Le sigh. I feel like I should mention this to my parents but at the same time, I need to come up with some credible backup plans.</p>
<p>@Elleya i was literally in the same position as you in the winter, well, sort of. i wanted to be a doctor for years and every doctor i know said do not do it there’s so much stress with malpractice and technicalities ect, so i figured, OK, i want a life so maybe ill become a nurse or a PA, but that meant definitely knowing if i wanted to be a nurse since i’d have to find a school with a nursing program. then i kind of changed my mind bc my parents were like you have so much potential to do more than just nursing or something like that, which made me doubt myself yet again. then i had a meeting with my research mentor and im doing this crazy project over the summer and i realized maybe i want to do that for my whole life so i kind of snapped one night and was like “i have no direction in life!” so then my mom was just like, you don’t need to know what you want to do now, college is meant for finding out your passions. maybe you will wind up becoming a writer or teacher or whatever! the point is, even people who think they know what they want don’t always stay on the same path. embrace the uncertainty and consider your next 5 yrs or more of school as a time to pursue your interests and weed out the things you don’t see yourself doing in life!</p>
<p>Indeed! Such is the approach I want to take. But my parents won’t have any of that. I want to explore, but mostly things i’m already interested in but I don’t get to explore much in HS.</p>
<p>But NOPE NOPE NOPE gotta pick something that brings in $$$ and job security. Loans are to be avoided at all costs.</p>
<p>Ugh, recently I’ve just fallen in love with this one college so much, but I have this feeling that I won’t get in and it’s making me really sad. Oh what CC does to my self esteem.</p>