<p>Hey. I need some help. I'm a sophomore looking for some advice. I really want to go to one of the Ivy League schools but right now high school is really boring. My classes just seem like they don't really have a purpose and i'm nervous my grades are gonna slip cuz i'm not really paying that much attention and i'm not really caring that much. is there anything I can do to get myself to do my work? like it's hard to keep going without wanting to take a break cuz i'm just so bored. please lemme know. it's killing me. :-)</p>
<p>Why do you think you want to go to an Ivy League school?</p>
<p>well the top two schools I wanna go to are Columbia and Harvard. both have very good schools for what I wanna go into, plus both of these schools have a lot of historical value.</p>
<p>what field is it that you want to go into?? also if you just want to go to an ivy becuase it has the prohram you want and historical value then i don’t think you should go to an ivy. Don’t get me wrong an ivy might be the right place for you, but I think you need to find a school that you love for its campus, faculty, people there ect. not because of historical value. I used to to hold the same opinon as you, but then i thought about what i wanted in a school and i found 2 schools thatmeet my needs. I think you should sit down and think about what you want in a school. If you post what field you want to go into I might know of some schools you might be interested in.</p>
<p>hmm. i would look
into private/boarding
school.</p>
<p>Take summer courses.</p>
<p>Check out priavate schools/ boarding schools. They’re prety awesome.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not all people have the financial resources/ability to go to prep or private schools.</p>
<p>I always remember that I am going to have to do the work some time, so I might as well do it now. A good work ethic is hard to develop. You’ll need it in college.</p>
<p>The amounts of financial aid that the schools offer are unbelievable. Some are even needblind. Money is not that much of a matter.</p>
<p>I agree with Megan - “historical value” will probably make very little difference to your college experience. </p>
<p>As for your situation, I can totally sympathize. My classes are so boring, it’s hard to make myself pay attention. I just try to think of how hard multivariable calculus at U Chicago will be if I never learn precalc.</p>
<p>^pre-calc has little do with calculus, to be honest. Of course, UChicago is going to be hard regardless of preparation, methinks.</p>
<p>yeah i guess. i mean one of my classes is Values and Beliefs. When am i gonna use that? i guess i just have to keep pushing myself as hard as i can, is anyone doing the full IB? or do you know if schools, like harvard and columbia, like the fact that i’ll have the full IB? because maybe that will give me encouragement.</p>
<p>on the transcript, it only said IB diploma candidate. (You won’t get the diploma until you pass all your tests and fullfill all requirements. Another words neither you or the college will know the results until after you’ve been accepted. On your transcript it will on say diploma candidate) But i am a full ib candidate, so i don’t know if there will be a difference on yours. In my opinion, it really doesn’t matter. I am not saying that you shouldn’t do it. If IB is most rigorous schedule at your school then do it. In my school, a lot of IB and AP classes are mixed together. So it really didn’t make a difference. It only thing is that the kids who are full diploma at your school might look better than you (assuming if you are applying to the same schools). But then again that statement is also assuming if you guys had everything else about the same (gpa, rank, sat, ecs). It all depends on you as a whole. One advantage that personally benefited me as a student (colleges aside) is the disgusting ib requirements. CAS is a joke. However, TOK and EE should be extremely valuable, given that you take them seriously . Most high school kids won’t take classes like TOK, and it really changes the way you view everything. Although you probably alot of essays around 4000 words during your high school career, none of them gives you as much freedom and requires as much independent research. That essay alone, i think, will really prepare you for college. I’m not saying that because of the EE, writing classes in college would be a piece of cake. It won’t.But it will better prepare you for them. Also, full IB is suppose to teach you time management with all the IA and other one billion deadlines coming at you without warning. But you never know, i didn’t learn any time managment and instead became a procrastinator. so…if anything at least do HL history and HL math. </p>
<p>So i guess what i am trying to say is college admission is RANDOM…at least the ones that you are going for. Do everything you are passionate about and trust me that 's the most important thing in your college application. And write some killer essays. Ps. learn time managment. the first semester of senior is going to be hell if u are a full ib w/o at least finishing part of the EE. Speaking from personal experenice, having to do my college apps, EE, and retaking sats all in 3 or 4 months WAS NOT pleasant!!!</p>