<p>How you manager to get perfect stats in HS? Please don't just list what you did, but rather how did you do it
it's rather like this topic <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/239319-straight-students-how-do-you-do.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/239319-straight-students-how-do-you-do.html</a> but I just want to see how Ivy Leaguers do it. Thanks</p>
<p>i didnt study. next question</p>
<p>^ same answer as that ■■■■■</p>
<p>Not all Ivy League students have perfect stats. Last year from my school, two kids went to Harvard. One had perfect stats and was waitlisted. The other had one B and got in right away. The sister of the one who was waitlisted (she’s a senior at Harvard) had perfect stats and got in right away too. Her brother had perfect stats ad got into Stanford right away (he’s graduated from there) but didn’t get into Harvard.
One of the other 4 '08ers with a perfect GPA goes to UPenn now. He was also one of two people at my school to get into Northwestern. The other was my sister, who wasn’t even in the top15% of her class (she was, however, in the top 16%). Another guy from my school who applied, our sal, didn’t get in.
Our other vals didn’t get into Ivies and don’t go to them. They go to top 50 schools (Emry and Carnegie Mellon), and one got a full ride from Emory so he didn’t care much about which Ivies he got into or didn’t. There are other people from my school who go to Ivies like Brown and Cornell and Columbia (two there) who weren’t vals and didn’t have perfect stats. The guy who got into Brown wasn’t even nice. He was a total arse actually. One of the kids who got into Columbia had a 3.5 unweighted (but still in the top 10% of his class. my school doesn’t inflate grades) and was waitlisted at Michigan. The one I mentioned above who was waitlisted but got into Harvard was rejected by Columbia despite her perfect GPA and her general amazingness.</p>
<p>No one can tell you anything that’s going to guarantee you get into an Ivy League school.</p>
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Im not a ■■■■■. I literally studies minimally to get the grades I wanted. Basically if you pay attention in class (for most classes) and dont doodle or screw around you will pick up a vast majority of the material</p>
<p>I’m very proud of having put in the minimum amount of work to yield the maximum possible outcome (from my perspective) :). In my opinion, one has to rectify marginal cost with marginal benefit (econ!), which is how I ended up where I am while retaining my sanity. Then again, some kids just have to work really hard to get anywhere at all…Depends on the person?</p>
<p>I love arrogant pricks that think that think so highly of themselves because they didnt have to study in high school and yet still made an Ivy League school.
You guys will definitely be in for a surprise when you get to college when you’re not even close to being the smartest person you know anymore.</p>
<p>^^ Agreed. The whole “there’s always someone better than you” concept definitely applies in the college atmosphere.</p>
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<p>Not an arrogant prick, but high school definitely wasn’t worth studying for. At best it was just regurgitation of facts that were drilled into us over and over again, not like college where you’re supposed to actually understand and be able to apply to concepts.</p>
<p>As for college: seriously, you’re going to know how much you need to study to make the grade and you’re going to put in just that amount of effort. No point in studying everyday if you only need to study every few days to get an A or whatever grade you’ll be satisfied with. When you get to college, you’ll realize there’s still a lot of kids that can get good grades even though they don’t study that much. The key is to study smarter, not harder. I’m definitely studying more than in hs, but I’m still not studying much compared to everyone else, and I’m managing above-average grades.</p>
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The last sentence applies for a lot of college classes too, although you will need to put in some extra effort like going to office hours, and I called you a ■■■■■ because it’s quite well-known you ■■■■■ a lot.</p>
<p>I didn’t study much either (likely letter to 1 ivy). </p>
<p>My MIT interviewer told me (to my surprise, at the time) that MIT looks for students who have done well throughout high school without much effort. Same sort of mentality would go for ivy league schools I assume. </p>
<p>I do regret not studying more, my grades could be significantly higher. For most of high school i mostly played music, did my sport, watched movies, met with friends, and played computer games (haha). Did most of my homework between classes or on the train.</p>
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<p>Your high school seems ridiculously easy.</p>
<p>Unless you go to a wicked competitive hs that has a legit grading scale (Cs really are average, even in honors classes), then it’s not too hard to be on the honor roll. Sorry, but too many people make hs more difficult than it is. Just show up to class, pay attention to what’s going on, do the work… and you’re set.</p>
<p>I’m going to an Ivy next year and… honestly… I haven’t pulled a single all-nighter. In fact, I go to bed at like, 10 every night. You just have to be good at managing your time… and be willing to grind work out when you actually have to do some. Like, don’t do a sport, go home, go on Facebook, eat dinner, take a shower, talk onthe phone with your friends, play video games, etc. etc. all in one night.</p>
<p>Break up your work in increments and get the little stuff out of the way first. Keep rewarding yourself throughout the night with things that won’t distract you. Oh, and get up and do something other than work when you start to feel burnt out. </p>
<p>The biggest piece of advice I can tell you is… don’t stress out! The reason that people find hs such a pain sometimes is because they feel special if they have a lot to do, so they tell people that they’re wicked busy to feel like they have a life… then they internalize what they said and freak out. Don’t do that!!</p>
<p>um i’ve put in minimal effort too, and i’ll be goin to a few decent colleges next year as well. as people have reiterated in this thread, hs truly isn’t that damn difficult. i do pull all-nighters, but that is the product of my procrastination and staying up late playing guitar, watching movies, or doing silly things.</p>
<p>i do expect to study more in college, as should most of us probably. still, smart studying is the way to go. not staying in your room being worthless all day…</p>
<p>Yeah, hs is easy. All through middle school the teachers kept talking about how “Hard” it was going to be, but once I get there its not that bad. I do study my ass off, but only to apply myself for my own benefit. </p>
<p>Not going to an Ivy school just thought I’d add that.</p>
<p>I studied for a math test once.</p>
<p>i read all my textbooks and did the odd-numbered problems</p>
<p>except for chemistry, which is why i don’t remember my chemistry anymore</p>
<p>^ but technically caltech’s not an ivy =P</p>
<p>i havent really studied for anything ever, but my school is fairly easy… all you have to do is listen a little bit and be able to figure out what is important and what isn’t… i’m sure there will be a rude awakening once i get to college though</p>
<p>It depends on which hs you go to</p>
<p>My son got into every ivy he applied to and came up with some good strategies to manage time with his workload that I can share with you (he’s too busy managing his time well at the ivy of his choice to go on this site).</p>
<p>One, he did not watch TV and only rewarded himself with computer games when he had finished working. Two, like coteee, he always got a good night’s sleep since he discovered he was slower without sleep. Three, he brought his books with him everywhere and worked whenever he could. He had clipboards with him on long car drives. He managed to play sports, play in three musical groups, take college classes. He basically went to school all year round (he loved learning) and would actually complete whole years of classes in the summer in special programs, which would give him more breathing room in the fall. Hope that helps.</p>