<p>It is thee math that eez killing me. My teacher is horrible 
Last test particularly, I studied for hours and still sucked… I used to “get” things a lot quicker last semester. It’s like my brain is turning to goo or something.</p>
<p>Come May, all of our brains turn into goo =)</p>
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<p>Okay. Fair. But for me, it’s not about thinking I’ll get in. I just have a problem with your absolute statement that “none of us are getting in.” Seems silly, seeing as you know none of us. =]</p>
<p>Edit: And not winning olympiad or whatever doesn’t equal autoreject…there are other ways to get into top schools. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Math is the one thing that sets me apart from the other students in my school. I actually understand it. I’m in precalc right now (which i guess is apparently now below average since there are some kids on here taking ap calc ab/bc sophomore year) and I help my fellow classmates during choice times, breaks, etc. I wish I got paid for what I do, it’s definitely tutoring. Unfortunately, I can’t just put that I tutored my friends for 50 hours each year on my college application. My friends say I should just teach the class and be the teacher. Oh god, I hope I never become a teacher…ever.</p>
<p>^ i would probably kill myself before I became a HS teacher. I wouldn’t be able to handle the shame.</p>
<p>@databox…what if somebody isn’t interested in music, science, or athletics and can’t win awards that way? I mean, if you think about it, at least there are competitions for math/science. for history no such thing, but that doesn’t mean that history buffs don’t get into HYPS</p>
<p>^ LOL, but to be fair, I’ve had some pretty amazing teachers. I don’t think there’s any shame in being an educator.</p>
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<p>Okay. Fair enough. I just have a problem with your absolute statement that “I know none of you.” Seems silly, seeing as I * do * know some of the peeps posting on this thread. =]</p>
<p>Sorry, that was a horrible attempt at humor, anyways my previous statement wasn’t really the blanket statement it seemed to be. Although the poster who made the original statement about all of us going to H/S, seemed to direct it to everyone, I know that a disproportionately large portion of the statement was directed indirectly at me. And although my statement seemed to encompass all of us, I only intended it for myself.</p>
<p>educator, yes, I would enjoy, like being a professor, that is pretty worthwhile. Being a teacher such as the ones at my HS is shameful.</p>
<p>I would be afraid that I would be hated on and gossiped about outside of class…I know I do that with my friends about the teachers I dislike.</p>
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<p>dude…read the fine print…I said “If you think you are as a sophomore and haven’t won some sort of international olympiad or a comparable athletic/musical event, you probably aren’t…remember complacency gets one no where…” which means that you think you are going to get in as a sophomore w/o any major accomplishments, you probably aren’t making it anywhere due to your overconfidence…</p>
<p>Schedule:
APUSH
AP English Language
AP Stats
Honors Physics
Honors Latin IV
Theology III
Studio Art</p>
<p>Colleges: Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Brown, UVA, William and Mary</p>
<p>^ unless your daddy has donated a $5 million dollar building to the school … life sucks huh</p>
<p>If you mean “major” accomplishments, I don’t think you neccesarily need them to get in. The people I know who have gotten in aren’t like the people here on CC with national competitions or anything. They just have great grades/scores/rank, and good, wellrounded ECs. Of course, it depends what area you live. Where I live, no one has ever heard of those math/science competitions.</p>
<p>OMGSHSHSHSH dude, please read my previous post again, I NEVER said you can’t get in w/o amazing accomplishments…why do you fail to understand my point…?</p>
<p>^haha, chill. I tend to misread people’s posts. </p>
<p>Whatcha guys doing over the summer?</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP Art History
AP English Literature
APUSH
AP Spanish Language
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>I’m planning on self-studying AP Econ, AP Bio, and AP Physics
While taking 2-3 classes each semester at the CC
This summer, I’m going to research with a professor at the university I want to go to.</p>
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<p>^If you actually decide to go ahead with that, can you please start a thread about your mental health one year from this date? i, for one, would be very interested =)
Good luck w/ the 9-12 AP exams!</p>
<p>As I am already nutty, I don’t think loading on the AP courses will make any difference. And I really am only shooting for self-studying one on the side, but if I told myself “only one” I would end up doing none. If I tell myself “three” I will give one up each semester, and it will balance out to one self-studied.
Quite, clever, eh? I just hope I don’t ever catch on to my own strategy.</p>
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<p>4 classes, a job (hopefully), vacation, philosophy work, official duties</p>
<p>Schedule:
AP English Language and Composition
Spanish 3 Honors
AP United States History
Pre Calculus Honors/Analysis of Functions
AP Psychology
AP Biology
Physics Honors</p>
<p>Class Unsure About, but could always replace AP Biology with: AP Chemistry</p>
<p>I like UPENN and Northwestern the best.
But I also like Brown, Cornell,University of Chicago, Emory, Johns Hopkins and maybe few other schools. If all fails … UF which is still an awesome school, and hard to get into due to their random admissions lately. I see Alumni helps if you apply early to UPENN or Brown, and I have like 11 family members who attended UPENN and 2 from Brown. Blah and a couple BIG time Alumni from Emory. So I hope that all helps when applying comes around.</p>