<p>@shmulza! Totally. I have been a middle school lurker for quite a while now. So it’s nice to a to see a thread about us ready-for-highschool-slightlyoveracheiving-trying-to-prepare 8th graders! Class of 2015 FTW!! 
But legitly, nice idea for a thread!</p>
<p>@PoliticalProtege. I’vee been lovin your posts! I think its awesome how well rounded you are! I know you had posted this a couple pages ago, but our school is allowing FReshman to take an AP class for the first time! It’s APHuG!</p>
<p>As for summer programs, I am taking part in Vanderbilt Summer Academy for two weeks. I took part in the CTY talent search and stuff and qualified for some programs, but I ended up not doing any of the summer programs. I think I’ll travelng some this summer, volunteering, and taking place in the Freshman Transition Academy thing at our school</p>
<p>@The Nerd
Thanks! Indian classical dance is pretty cool, according to my female friends lol. I know very few guys who do it lol.
I also love MUN, Forensics, Mock Trial, and I plan on doing them.
This sounds hilarious, but what colleges do you guys care for? lol, see how weird that sounded?</p>
<p>The Yale video is freakishly awesome. Enough said. I hope to apply to some of those colleges you mentioned.</p>
<p>Are you talking about the “Thats Why I chose Yale” song vid. I swear that video is freakin amazing! Do you have any dream schools?</p>
<p>^Not really. I’m more focused on high school than college lol. But Yale could be one.</p>
<p>Harvard all the way for me because both my parents went there and my grandpa went there too. Have you guys seen the the Harvard parody of the why I chose Yale video? it was hilarious</p>
<p>@political oh same here. but i’ve just thought about it randomly
@golfcrew wow! Some serious legacy there! No, but i shall watch it!</p>
<p>I’ve seen it. It’s hilarious. I may apply to Harvard.
I’m still waiting for a junior/senior to reprimand us and call us prestige whores.
The Nerd, have you done MUN before? I love it.</p>
<p>ya but legacy doesn’t help as much as it used to. my sister who goes to UPenn (class of 2013) had good grades a 2250 SAT the triple legacy thing and 1 rec letter from a pretty important alum who was on the football team and same finals club whith my gandpa and 1 from a guy who is a pretty large benefactor to Harvard and she only got waitlisted</p>
<p>I hate all freshman, :)</p>
<p>I’m glad legacy doesn’t matter as much. It’s unfair to people like me lol.</p>
<p>Ya I guess legacy is unfair but there are a lot of unfair things like AA and recruited athletes so it all kind of balances out</p>
<p>Well, recruited athletes is something you can control. AA, being poor/disadvantaged or rich/legacy, are all advantages you cannot control.</p>
<p>Which states are you from? Everyone.</p>
<p>you can control being an athlete to some extent because some people have more talent, are built perfectly for a sport, etc. Also some people just aren’t athletic no matter how hard they work at a certain sport, they can never be the best.</p>
<p>Yeah, but it’s like music then.</p>
<p>well I don’t really know much about music since I come from a very sporty family but I’ll take your word for it. Do you all go to public or private?</p>
<p>I go to a pretty competitive public.</p>
<p>I go to a private that everyone says is super hard but in my opinion its pretty easy and the classes are about one hundred and we send like 4 to Harvard every but like none to Yale its weird</p>
<p>Yale is awkwardly selective, apparently.
One hundred per grade? 700 per grade here.</p>