<p>^^HAHAHA </p>
<p>sorry, that was seriously uncalled for. no bodies perfect harvey mudd.</p>
<p>I’m not a perfect student…even though I finished valedictorian (out of 42), I completely trolled my US history final last year…lol.</p>
<p>To everyone saying there’s no such thing as a perfect student, I think all that means is that everyone’s put on a curve and the top .5% or so are considered perfect. My schools valedictorian two years had a 4.0, took the hardest classes possible, had 2200+ SAT, was the best oboe player in the state, was SGA secretary, did lots of volunteer work, had research internships, and was incredibly nice. Was she a perfect student? No, but I’m fairly certain she was pretty high up there compared to the rest of applicants and was not significantly lacking in any category schools care about, so she is perfect for all intents and purposes.</p>
<p>Lol there are a lot of us who aren’t perfect.</p>
<p>Wow some people here are extremely rude and judgmental. If I could afford an ivy league school then I absolutely would go. The reason I joined this forum was to ask questions about paying for college. It’s extremely unnecessary to try and put me and others in my situation down. Sure I didn’t start of school as the top scholar but at least I don’t have the personality of a shoe.</p>
<p>I get straight As and I’m on the math team and the scholar bowl team and I win first place all the time at regionals and once at state in my division, and I play piano and violin, etc, BUT for the entire first semester of 9th grade I ditched this one class (PE) almost everyday. I would be there during rollcall and then I would get my stuff and change in the bathroom and leave. The teacher never noticed I was missing. I guess that makes me a bad student.</p>
<p>I had a final exam in US history where I had to memorize a bunch of MC and T/F questions from this study guide. Already bad enough, right? There were 30 T/F questions divided into three groups of 10 (each group for a different section of the course?).</p>
<p>So what I did was I let T = 1, F = 0, so that each group of 10 was a binary string, then converted into base 10. For example, TFFTFFTTFT corresponds with “1001001101,” or 589 in base 10. Therefore by remembering “589,” I now know the ten T/F answers in order.</p>
<p>This is what I meant by trolling the US history final…guess I’m not the most studious at my school lol 
Got an A in the course anyway.</p>
<p>No wonder you’re going to MIT</p>
<p>But on a slightly more serious note, that is one of the most awesome things I’ve read all week.</p>
<p>In elementary school, I never knew what I was doing. I constantly got Bs and Cs when I was focusing. Somehow, I managed to get straight A’s in all my classes in middle school except for one class (one B in one quarter of bio honors). Now, I’m heading to high school, and I’m not sure what my grades will be like. So basically, I wasn’t close to perfect. But I may have a chance to show what I can do in my high school years.</p>