<p>My school had about 450 eighth graders. About two-thirds of them end up going to the nearby high school and the rest go to the school four miles from where the other one is.</p>
<p>@prepmivi Touche. XD</p>
<p>Yeah, there are definitely quite a few private schools around here. When I figured out I was moving this summer, I begged my mom to let me go to a private school, but they are just way too expensive. Maybe 1 in 10 of all kids going into high school go to private schools, but definitely not enough here to say half.</p>
<p>@KristaKeys Are you a minority? I know of a really great program for minorities who advocate for you to get into really good prep schools, and help you pay for it.</p>
<p>Did you apply to any private schools? My tip for everybody is to apply to great schools whose tuition is way out of your monetary reach, and apply for financial aid. Most lower and middle class are too apprehensive to apply to private schools, that the big schools mentioned earlier have a lot reserved for financial aid.</p>
<p>^ I’m most certainly in agreement. I applied to school although we couldn’t afford them, and I did get into one. </p>
<p>However, I was waitlisted for the Financial Aid (and they had no extra funds in the end). </p>
<p>BUT! A lot of those schools do give great money, especially if you have a “hook,” like being a minority or if you’re really talented at something.</p>
<p>Nope, I’m not full minority, only 1/4, which doesn’t count for much since I still consider myself caucasian. XD And I probably should have applied to a couple of them, but I didn’t. Most private schools in my area are based out of a church, so when applying for financial aid or scholarships they ask how many years you have been with the church and everything. They even state on most of their applications that they consider church members before non-members of their church. Which is fine and all, it’s the church’s school, and my parents don’t take me to church (despite the fact I want to go, but that’s a different topic XD) so there’s no way around it there.</p>
<p>Hi everyone I’m back! :D</p>
<p>Welcome back. :D</p>
<p>:D I’m finally taking my geometry course, from Ashworth College. However, I believe some of their information to be wrong. Like, they asked how may points the net of a cube has. They said six. What? I couldn’t find anything on a net of a cube whose quantity was six.
well, besides the faces, but those are definitely not points.</p>
<p>lol ■■■■ I was reading my geometry text book and it is hilarious like for an inductive reasoning excercise there were two boxes labled ‘bleebles’ and ‘not bleebles’ and there were shapes in the boxed and you had to say what made a bleeble a bleeble and like omg this is hilarious.</p>
<p>also, the textbook asked if i had ever made a bridge out of pasta</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>That’s odd. I don’t see how there is 6 points on a net of a cube either… but then again I’m not that great with shapes and sides and everything. XD However, you say there is nothing on the net of a cube with a quantity of 6, but aren’t there 6 sides? The proper term might not even be sides, it might be faces or something… I don’t know. (EDIT just saw your note on the faces. I guess I skimmed right through it? I need to start reading more thoroughly XD) The only thing I am good with in geometry is triangles. Let me know if you need help with triangles. XD hahahahahaha. Alright.</p>
<p>… and that’s also an odd book you’ve got yourself there. I don’t see the relevance of pasta-made bridges to geometry.</p>
<p>lol
the pasta was actually about triangles
lolololololololololollolololololololol</p>
<p>So, weird question, but do any of you guys have a rival? Be it academic, athletic, musical, etc?</p>
<p>Yes. It’s all you guys on CC.</p>
<p>Oh, and I’d totes be up for a hetero-female (or IS it?) threesome. Just some good wholesome fun.</p>
<p>Coolio. :D</p>
<p>This one awesome girl from texas is my friend and she got 100s in every class. 
lol She’s not really my rival though because middle school grades don’t matter. However, I got a better grade than her on my science final lololol. I don’t know about her other final grades though. She’s a really awesome friend though. She doesn’t brag.</p>
<p>Eh, not any academic rivals, necessarily. I mean, no one that strives for a 98% in a class because I got a 97%. I don’t think we will really meet any rivals until we are being ranked in high school. However, I do have academic rivals in another sense and musical rivals. I was an officer in NJHS (which when you think about it, is not important at all) but there was a few people who constantly kept up with my grades and made sure I hadn’t gotten any detention slips so just incase I fell out of the officer position, they were there to pick right back up where I left off XD. Also, within our choir, there were musical rivals. There were many people battling it out for the leads in the musical and solos at our concerts, and tons of “gossip” went around when the strongest singers in the class didn’t get whatever they wanted. There were a few times when solos were rightfully given to softer singers who sounded very good singing them, not those in the class who were always chosen because they could belt the national anthem. I can remember trying out for a solo and becoming alternate, if one of the 2 soloists couldn’t make it. But I had this one girl come up to me and say “I don’t think it’s fair for you to have gotten anything because you already have an instrument part.” I did actually, I had auditioned to play the congo drum with one of our songs because our teacher was desperate for someone to do it who could keep a steady beat the whole time. However, I was talking to Miss-Lead-Part-In-The-Musical-and-Had-A-Solo-Last-Concert, when I had never had one. And this was just for the title of ALTERNATE. Imagine what actual soloists go through. XD</p>
<p>Haha wow that girl sounds like a you-know-what. I never really had a rival either, except for this kid who has been in every single one of my classes for the past three years. He’s the only one who can keep up with me grade wise. But he’s moving to New York for freshman year. 
He’ll be back, though.</p>
<p>Well I’m new here so I think I’ll just jump into the conversation.</p>
<p>Didn’t really have any rivals in school, but there was this one girl in 7th we’d always be comparing against each other. I wasn’t in her 8th grade classes, but we still tried to one up each other a lot. I remember at awards night, I had gotten more awards than here; but she ended up getting the more prestigious one or whatever, so we did debate what was better for a day. We’re kinda good friends though, so it was all in fun. But we both are competitive types.</p>
<p>But like Krista said, nobody gets really “competitive” with each other till high school. It apparently becomes a big deal. (Some of those kids take stuff too far)</p>
<p>@Swinter- Yes, she was quite the character. XD</p>
<p>@TheAtlantic- Welcome! And yeah, definitely high school is when it will start. </p>
<p>It might be just me- or does anyone else anxiously await the arrival of an envelope from the school full of orientation dates, past report card, standardized testing scores, etc.? I got all angry because my brother’s (entering 6th grade) came a few days ago but mine hasn’t come yet. XD</p>
<p>I already got mine! But that’s to be expected 'cause school starts in 15 days for me.</p>