<p>I am a high school freshmen and I have being living in the United States for 5 years but for all this years my english was not satisfying to me. When I read the comment/essays people wrote, it made me feel very uncomfortable b/c everybody was so good with their engish. ^_^</p>
<p>I don't know what to do in High School...I don't know what I am suppose to do to get in Yale. Any help will be very helpful. Ex. how to study for SAT (b/c I am taking it this year), exams, IMPROVINT english, going to yale?????????
Note: does the high school you went to effect your chance to go to Yale?? my High school is "unknown" "not good"
Thank you for reading</p>
<p>Don't get too harsh on yourself. As a freshmen, taking the SAT is not beneficial and could be detrimental. I recommend taking the Practice SAT in Sophomore(10th) year and then the real thing Junior(11th).</p>
<p>Now is the time to read more, write more to improve English. The best way is to read more news articles, such as BBC.com, if science orientated, Scientific American.</p>
<p>susi93: you are FAR too early in the process to worry about what it takes to get into a school like Yale. The fact is that Y's admit rate is around 8% and for someone in your position to be so slaved to attending Yale is at best unwise -- at worse, foolhardy.</p>
<p>Foster your desire to learn, go for the toughest schedule available. Be a GREAT high school student, not attempting to be a PRE-YALE student. There are more important things in life than just the college that confers your degree.</p>
<p>Yeah... read more, write more, be confident in whatever you do, and do what you genuinely love. I'm sure you'll do fine no matter where you decide to go in your senior year.</p>
<p>I agree with the others...if at the end of your four years, you haven't been accepted to yale and all of your activities and time were devoted to that purpose, you'll find that you wasted what could've potentially been some of the best years of your life. just enjoy high school and let the chips fall where they may :)</p>
<p>Enjoyyyyyyyyyy high school for now. I'm a bit flustered now I guess since I don't know exactly how this whole app process works as a junior..but hey, i still got a while to figure it all out. However, i do NOT regret starting it later because freshmen/soph year were great years to really enjoy that high school experience. Take classes you like, do things you like to do, and worry about it as it comes along (and now is NOt the time..)</p>
<p>Get a vocabulary SAT book and study the words; write them down in a notebook and make sentences that make sense with them. Also, write down any words you come across in your reading that you don't know in a notebook and look up definitions. Also READ a lot and from a variety of sources. Classic novels (Dickens, Austen, the Brontes, etc.) and news analysis magazine articles from Time or Newsweek are the types of things you'll see on SAT excerpts.</p>