<p>Haha, I feel the same way. My dad keeps asking me to apply to Tufts because he claims he “knows people who can get you in.” Uhh…okay, Daddy! Never mind that Tufts doesn’t have undergrad nursing. u_u.</p>
<p>Speaking of…I feel confident about nursing again. I holed myself up in my room and sulked on CC and other places for 7 hours last night, but somehow clawed my way out of my little hole today and if anything, I feel more dedicated and hell-bent on getting into a great nursing program. Sometimes life sucks, sometimes it sucks all the time but I refuse to let that get in the way of a dream. I’ve talked to so many people who have somehow managed to make their dreams happen, and even though my parents weren’t so successful, other people have been and it’s inspiring to me. Plus, who’s to say I can’t go back someday to get another bachelor’s or to grad school or even med school?</p>
<p>I want to major in business, but I think I have a better chance at my dream schools (Darthmouth) with math, because I have SO MANY great awards in math, and none in business xD. I will switch out once I get in… ;)</p>
<p>^ It is significantly easier to get into every school with an undergrad b school besides Wharton, and possibly NYU Stern. Mich and UVA (who have top 5 undergrad b schools) are significantly easier to get into than Dartmouth, and math awards may help a bit, but they won’t make or break your application.</p>
<p>Business includes a lot of math (particularly in finance and accounting), it’s not like you will be giving up on math for good if you become a biz major.</p>
<p>My friend said to me a few weeks ago, “I can guarantee you’ll get into Dartmouth.” While this might have been a compliment haha, I got really angry. How dare you guarantee I’ll get into a school like that. So yeah, people at my (admittedly mediocre) school expect too much of my college prospects. They don’t realize just how hard it is.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t know what I want to be or do. I’d like to do something creative. I guess my dream is to be a showrunner/creator/writer for a TV show. I don’t know how I’d feel about going out to California, but if that’s what it takes, so be it. I just don’t know. I don’t have the portfolio for a place like Tisch. Dartmouth has pretty good production courses, as does Brown. I’m just stuck in this situation of thinking I need to go the practical route, given the unsavory job market or going in the scary crap-shoot direction (entertainment, something totally not impractical). You can say “follow your dreams” until you’re blue in the face, but plenty of smart, capable people “follow their dreams” and don’t make it in such a bizarre, luck-driven profession. It’s scary.</p>
<p>Also, should I bother reviewing World History for tomorrow or just relax tonight?</p>
<p>msteiny1212, I totally understand that angry feeling! My mom is going off about how I HAVE to go to a certain college and how I can totally get in. I don’t think she knows how competitive it is and seeing as how my grades, let alone other information like leadership positions, aren’t very good I can’t get into that college</p>
<p>Lets leave the GPA talk for a while, its depressing. Where will obsessing over admissions leave us?? We will go where we are destined to in the end. We will find a place where we belong.
Me, I want to be a teacher, but being an Indian, I will be majoring in Mech.E. But, I know, I will become what I want to be. :)</p>
<p>I like that, Mrinal2207! Very true. Definitely not something i’m thinking about right now.</p>
<p>I did an 8-man color guard for our local Relay for Life today. Man, that was the most…interesting color guard i’ve ever done. Hooray for poor planning!</p>
<p>Also, it’s raining (again) for the 5th year (in a row) of Relay. I remember camping out last year and having it torrentially downpour from midnight to 5AM.</p>
<p>Can a vent for a moment? I’ve been in student council since last year. The adviser personally picked me because she felt that I was hard-working and would do a good job and continue for the rest of my HS career. I was the only sophomore on the council. I really liked (still do) being on student council; our school doesn’t do much and not many people have school spirit, so it was nice to be involved in the one organization that actually cared about the school.</p>
<p>At the end of the year I was voted vice president. Then our adviser retired, and we got a new one. Due to budget cuts, other clubs and organizations, like yearbook and prom committee, came under our jurisdiction. Since I’ve been involved for two years, I know everything that has to be done for student council. I know everything from who we go for for flowers at the dances we organize to the fact that we pay a stipend to the janitor who feeds the aquarium in the lobby. Due to consolidation, class officers were now a bigger part of student council. Occasionally junior class officers would come to our meetings, but most didn’t because they only wanted to be officers so it would “look good” on applications.</p>
<p>I figured that, since I was the one and only junior who was actively involved in student council, I would be president my senior year. If my old adviser was still in place, I think it would happen, as voting would be done more “in-house”, so the other members would know what I’ve done and vote for me. However, the new adviser is making the voting very open. She announced to my Spanish class that anyone who wanted to run could show up to our last meeting this Wednesday.</p>
<p>…I have a problem with this. My school is very clique-y and anytime there is voting for something, it’s always a popularity contest. People who DIDN’T EVEN KNOW student council existed are talking about running for a position. I know these people well; they don’t want to do anything, they want to say they were a club officer on their applications. One of my “friends” is running against me; she didn’t know about student council til the day my adviser told her about it.</p>
<p>So if anyone can nominate and vote for officers, I’m going to lose out on being president, student council will go downhill because none of these people will do any work, and the time and effort I put into the club will be for naught.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me, except that I ran for senior VP instead of Pres… I was the only person who had even been in student council before… and I lost. :(</p>
<p>Took Math 2 and World today. Gah. I should have done better in Math, angry that I omitted so many. And World was a pain but I expected that. How heavily are SAT 2s weighed in terms of admissions? lol…</p>
<p>Well, it’s that combined with the fact that the people running won’t do anything and are only running because they think having a leadership role will look good to colleges. Whereas maintaining the school interests me, and I have ideas that I’d like to put into place. But whatever. Such is high school.</p>
<p>I took the Math 2, Bio M, and U.S. History subject tests today. U.S. was pretty easy, Bio was average, but I thought Math was kind of hard. I probably omitted 8 and got some wrong on top of that. ._.</p>
<p>Also, has anyone seen the Les Miserables trailer? I can’t wait for December.</p>
i’ll just apply for business</p>