<p>I'm not doing this for the colleges by the way, I am doing this out of self interest. I just want some other people's opinion on which activities would be good for me and colleges, so I'm basically killing two birds with one stone.</p>
<p>Are u a freshman jason4444?</p>
<p>what is an "EC"?</p>
<p>extracurricular</p>
<p>bump................</p>
<p>Thanks for the compliment, cooljoe. Your class alone has 1,000+ students?! Wow... sounds like you get a good handful of fights...</p>
<p>In response to post #14:</p>
<p>Before you start giving out advice about applying to colleges, might I recommend that you brush up on geography and spelling? Somehow, I've never heard of "Montanna or Wiscounsin," though I do know of two nice Midwest states called Montana and Wisconsin.</p>
<p>cooljoe, I am in the same boat as you and the other freshmen that post on College Confidential. My stats are similar to yours, although my concentration is on the humanities. You're doing great so far; keep up the good work!</p>
<p>Deary, </p>
<p>You don't seem very "chillaxin" whatsoever. And I'm sure one can understand that it might of been a type-o seeing how it's easy to press down on a key hard enough to spell Montana with two n's. Also, I have no excuse for Wisconsin other than the fact that I don't really give a ***** and neither should you because this is the online world. </p>
<p>SO crawl in a hole and die you wannabe pretentious prick.</p>
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Are you Asian? Because if you are you're basically like all the other Asians and will end up getting waitlisted at your top choice in college. If you're white, you're doing meh. Do more EC. If you're hispanic or black, your in to your first choice.
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<p>If that's not true, I don't know what is.</p>
<p>That's another thing--I proficiently speak 4 languages (2 I'll study in high school: English, Spanish, Malayalam, French, and I write Hindi.</p>
<p>When you said ASIAN, i thought you meant chinese, oe japenes, or korean, or something, but now that u said you speak malayalam and hindi i guess youre indian?
im indian to and i speak 4 languages:
english
spanish
hindi
gujrati</p>
<p>I'm Indian, yeah. Is that a bad thing? </p>
<p>Thanks Olive_tree.</p>
<p>Righteous_vigilante, actually there really aren't that many fights at my school. It's pretty new, so the kids aren't that rowdy lol.</p>
<p>Freshmen unite!</p>
<p>your name is joe ?</p>
<p>^^I don't know if that was sarcastic, but my name really is Joe</p>
<p>is your name jason? lol</p>
<p>Ooo, I'm Indian too.</p>
<p>Indian PRIDE :)</p>
<p>cooljoe - why you posted this, I don't know.</p>
<p>Anyway, one of my friends took on the same load - AP CALC BC and AP BIO, etc. junior year. He got differed from MIT, but then got in regular. He also got into Harvard regular, and pretty much everywhere else he applied. He's white and jewish. No sports, and perhaps 4 ECs (that includes orchestra, band - he's nothin' special in those). </p>
<p>It's so tough now, especially as my view is pretty much the same as Kirei na Neko Ku's - which is reality. So, keep it goin, do some community service (they love that, regardless of how sincere you are), join some clubs. Oh, and it would be really awesome if you could say that your parents didn't go to college or that your great grandfather is 1/2 native american and 1/2 african american.</p>
<p>As of now, you can submit your app. anywhere. Get your CR up a few and you're in for sure. Good luck, man.</p>
<p>Well, my parents are both doctors, trained in India, so they technically didn't go to college. I'll be the first one in my family to go to an actual college and get a Bachelor of Arts degree (does that count?) Like I mentioned earlier in the post, I have lived on 3 continents and in about 9 cities across the globe. </p>
<p>Thanks--that's really motivating. By the way, what is a CR?</p>
<p>critical reading
btw joe, just shut up and enjoy life and school.....look at our batch....all you hear is rejection and very few acceptances
and WE WERE THE SAME AS YOU ARE NOW AS FRESHMEN
we took the same courses as you, did really well at school, but nothign good came out of it
JUST PLEASE STOP GOING NUTS and JUST ENJOY YOUR TEENAGE YEARS</p>
<p>That's my point--I don't want my senior/junior years to be so stressful, and I want to prevent being rejected from every (good) college I apply to. I just cannot afford to have a gap year, and everyone knows it's good to plan ahead. It seems kinda scary how people who were just like me were rejected from a bunch of good colleges, but what should I do to stop that from happening is what I want to know?</p>
<p>ENJOY YOUR LIFE.....TAKE IT FROM ME....i was the SAME as your now in freshmen year.....who would know i would gett rejected from ally my top colleges</p>