high school help!!!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Okay here's the deal.......................I REALLY want to go into Yale, duke, harvard, John hopkins, berkeley, stanford, or Pinceton more than anything in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD but there's a catch (always is lol.) I am an 8th grade student entering 9th grade next year and i live in SOUTH DAKOTA WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ANY HONORS CLASSES and but we do have AP classes (which we can't take until 10th.) I also plan to do well on the SAT's because i have been taking prep courses and getting 2300-perfect on every one. YOu have to understand that i need to get out of this PLACE AND I WILL DO ANYTHING NECCESARY!!!! here will be my schedule for the next 4 years with no changes and the EC's i plan 2 do and volunteer work. I am also a straigh A student and have a 4.0 GPA please help me by telling me what I should change/add or do differently thanks!!!</p>

<p>8th: accelerated algebra one, spanish one, geometry one
9th: Debate 1 (required), health (required) band, accelerated algebra 2, accelerated chemistry, accelerated english, accelerated physics, spanish 2
10th: AP chem, AP world history, spanish 3, accelerated english 2, accelerated Pre calc. AP physics band
11th: AP spanish, AP biology, AP American literature and composition, AP calculus, band, AP environmental Science, and AP american history
12th: AP music theory, AP english, anatomy and physiology, AP statistics, Band, Economics (required) psychology 1, AP government, AP human geography</p>

<p>I volunteer at the hospital over 300 hours a year and that is probably what i am most passionate about currently and i also volunteer at a retirement home where i do over 200 hours a year.</p>

<p>My EC's for next year will be: DAPA(plays), Drama (i will probably be in a lot of plays whether it's acting or stage crew) State band (i have been first chair in 7th and 8th grade and plan to continue) art club, challenge group, creative freedom, debate/team debate, link crew(only one year), marching band, National honor society, SALSA (seve and learn ambassadors) spanish club student council, and student trainers.</p>

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<p>I think you might want to duck under a table since CCers really hate middle school kids. </p>

<p>But here is what I think. </p>

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<li><p>You need some ECs that stand out</p></li>
<li><p>Maintain good scores and GPA, being in S. Dokata will help you a bit</p></li>
</ol>

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<p>What type of EC's do you mean? and why will it help me a bit that i am from SOuth Dakota?</p>

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<p>Wait...isn't "accelerated" just another term for honors?</p>

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<p>I don't think it is here because we only have like a totaly of seven that you can take through-out high school</p>

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<p>Hmm, you seem to be missing one thing in that whole extracurricular department. </p>

<p><em>Checks</em></p>

<p>Yep, a life.</p>

<p>Listen, bud, I know how much this means to you, and I respect that. But planning your life out 4 years in advance (especially your high school years) is ridiculous and quite a bit naive.</p>

<p>College isn't everything. Find your passion, and follow it. Anyone can have 800 hours a week ECs, but unless it matters to you, it's not going to matter to AdComs.</p>

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<p>but these all do matter to me...................I don't just do clubs and stuff that i hate thats stupid</p>

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<p>Bull$hit that you have gotten 2300 on preparatory SAT's. I find it amusing, since you can't even use proper grammar. :cool:</p>

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<p>I'm not sayin' you don't love all of those things. What I'm saying is that you're in 8th grade, and you have 4 years until college. 4 YEARS. That is a really, really long time, in which you can change a whole lot.</p>

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<p>I believe him in most aspects, but on his SAT story. He's actually getting a head start by posting here as an 8th Grader, I was viewing this forum in 7th Grade, but I did not register until like last year, my account was suspended for minutiae details, hence I recently registered. If he really has gotten "2300-perfect" on his SAT's, he is my hero, but I doubt so.</p>

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<p>I really have gotten a 2300 on my SAT's i wouldn't lie about something like that why would I on an anonymous site where no one knows me? That's just plain stupid.</p>

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<p>LOL, exactly WHY you would lie, because nobody knows you. You're obsessed with getting 2300-perfect that you actually believe you have, and telling porkies.</p>

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<p>fine visit us back in about 3 years
tell me what u really got on the SATs lol</p>

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<p>Ya, seriously. You're just a kid. Calm downn.</p>

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<p>What can we tell you? Get good grades. Keep your GPA above 3.8. Do the ECs you want to do. The ones you listed are fine. Don't get railroaded into doing an EC just to impress the admissions officers. For example, you don't need to do community service if it's not your thing. I didn't do a single hour, but like you, did theater, art, music, forensics (public speaking), lots of creative writing, filmmaking, etc., and I got into one of the best schools in the country. Oh, and one more thing, do a bang up job on the SATs....Then come back here when you're a junior and blow everybody away with your stats.</p>

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<p>i agree with kevdude.. take a chill pill.</p>

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<p>i second all these opinions; yet, i was in your shoes as well...</p>

<p>I thought I would be a 4.0 Val. 2400/ Cure for Cancer/ Youngest Nobel Prize winner (well, maybe not...)</p>

<p>All I'm saying is that my goals and reality did not exactly match up... i.e. I don't have a 4.0 (getting there), and am not even close to being Val.</p>

<p>I'm just trying to say that dreaming and optimism all well and good, but once you get to High School, it turns out that things don't exactly progress as planned. Still, keep at it!</p>

<p>Just some advice...</p>

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<p>get a life.</p>

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<p>I agree with .:Indian:.</p>

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<p>thank you!</p>