<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 2-3 hours
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 1 or 2 hours on average
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them):
September to November I have marching band, which probably averages out to 3 hours a day, including weekends.
November to February I have Orchestra, which is one hour a week.
January to April I have Jazz Band, which is 3 hours a day without weekends.
Current year in high school: Senior
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 5.60/6.00 W
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell</p>
<p>It certainly feels like a lot of work at times. My world cultures teacher literally gives projects as soon as we finish the previous one.</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 3
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 2
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): Volunteering 2 hrs/week; 1 hr/week for FBLA, NEHS, NHS, Environmental Club
Current year in high school: Senior
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 3.9/4.3
SAT: 2120
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: UVA, Georgetown</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 1-3
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 3-5 (I’m including self-studying for AP’s and my night classes here)
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 4-8, depending on the day of the week (music stuff)
Current year in high school: senior (12th)
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 4.0 UW for all of high school, 4.9 W for senior year, and 4.4 W for all of high school
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Dartmouth, Yale, Brown
SAT: 2230 single-sitting (760cr, 720m, 750w, 11e), 2280 superscore (770m)
ACT: 35 single-sitting (33e, 35m, 35r, 35s, 10e)</p>
<p>Honestly, all the times vary by the day of the week and how much homework I get.</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 2-5. It depends on so many variables, including how nice my teachers are that day, how much I’ve procrastinated, how much I procrastinate while doing homework, etc.
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 0-2. Depends on the class the test is in; I do a lot of studying in other classes, at breakfast, at lunch, etc. though.
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them):
Soccer/ 2-3 hours, around 3 days a week (practice or game).
Best Buddies/ 1 hour, one day a week at least (meeting or activity).
National Honor Society/ 1 hour on Tuesday & Thursday (tutoring & meeting).
Spanish Honor Society/ 1 hour, once a month (meeting).
Other random things that come up…NHS events, volunteering, Relay for Life, etc./ 4 hours a week.
Current year in high school: 2013
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 3.78 unweighted, 4.87 weighted.
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Realistically? Haha, what does this mean?.. but anyway – accepted EA to UChicago 2017, hoping for an acceptance to Columbia as well. Those are my top two.</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 20 minutes for all my classes except AP Human Geography. Most times, I can just do the homework when its assigned in class. However, AP Human requires that I do surveys, analyze houses, conduct interviews, etc. So for that class, its probably more like 1 hour a day.</p>
<p>Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 0. I scan over things before I take a test, but that’s all. But reviewing/preparing for competitions takes up ~2 hours a day.</p>
<p>Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them):
Youth Orchestra: 4 hours/week
Chamber Rehearsal: 2 hours/week
Piano Lessons: 1 hour/week
Envirothon (its a nature competition thing): 5 hours/week
Quiz Bowl: ~14 hours/month
Math Tutoring: 1 hour/week
Coaching middle school Mathcounts team: ~2 hours/week
Online course for fun: 6 hours/week
Figure Skating: 1.5 hours/week
Dancing: 1 hour/day
Science National Honor Society: 2 hours/month
Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society: 2 hours/month
Latin Club: 6 hours/month</p>
<p>Current year in high school: Sophomore :)</p>
<p>Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: Umm, Unweighted is 4.0, no idea what my weighted is, maybe 4.3? And ranking should be 1 as long as I keep my grades for this semester</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: Maybe 20-30 min.
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 5-10 min.
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 2 (basketball)
Current year in high school: Senior
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 3.7 UW
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Texas, Carnegie Mellon, Rice, UPenn
SAT: 2060 (620 R, 790 M, 650 W)</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 4
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 1.5
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 1.5 (Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, English Composition class…)
Current year in high school: 12
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 4.0 unweighted
Some universities that accepted me: UVA, University of Rochester, Franklin & Marshall…</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 1-2, sometimes way more than that
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 0-1
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 2 hours (Math League in the fall/winter, Tennis team in the spring)
Current year in high school: Sophomore
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 3.6 unweighted, 4.2 weighted, top 10%</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: Generally 0, but this is only because my classes mostly stop assigning homework after spring break. It peaked at about 30 minutes this year, but most of the time that would consist of one day with 2 hours or so and a few others with little or none.</p>
<p>Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: Generally 0, but it’s peaked as high as 2.</p>
<p>Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): About 2-3 per weekday, and a lot of weekends. Track, swimming, and cross country take up the overwhelming bulk of that. I have a few academic ECs (Beta Club, Quiz Bowl, Model UN, NHS etc.) that are almost no time commitment.</p>
<p>Current year in high school: Junior</p>
<p>Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 1st, 4.0</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 1 at the most
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 0 (I should work on this, shouldn’t I?)
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): It depends; usually 1.5-2 but it’s different each day
Current year in high school: 9th
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: UW: 3.97, W: 4.9, Rank: 14 of 442 (but it should be better now)</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 1-2
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: Usually 0, maybe .5 to 1 if I have a test the next day
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 2 (Varsity XC, Soccer, and Track)
Current year in high school: Junior
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 4.2 on 4.3 scale
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Princeton, MIT, Stanford
ACT: 36 Composite (35 English / 35 Math / 36 Reading / 36 Science / 11 Writing :()</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: 1
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: .5
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 3
Current year in high school: Senior
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 4.79, 12/500
University(s) you’re accepted at: Princeton, Duke (full ride), Cornell, Vandy, JHU, Ohio State, I think that’s all</p>
<p>Hours per day doing mandatory homework: Usually 1-2, up to 6 the night before a huge project is due
Hours per day reviewing/studying for tests, etc: 0
Optional: Hours per day doing ECs (list them): 3-4
-A sport (20hrs/week)
-Art Club (1-2 hrs/week)
-Math Club (1-2 hrs/week)
-DECA (over now, but 2-3hrs/week before)
Current year in high school: 10th
Current GPA and/or percentage average and/or school ranking: 95.8/100 GPA, unofficially ranked ~6/116
University(s) you’re realistically reaching for: Johns Hopkins? LOL I lack matches. I only have reaches and safeties (that I really like, so I have no problem going to them).
SAT: 2250 (800M, 730 CR, 720/8W)
^Retaking, lol</p>
<p>Test days: from 7-11
Quiz Days: from7-930,10
Ec’s: hockey season ended (8-9 twice a week and games)
General service clubs and etc
GPA: 3.75(uw) 4.5(w)
Taking ACT in June. Hopefully I get around 31-33.
Colleges: Safeties are UNC and NC State, Reaches are WashU, JHU, UPenn, Vandy</p>
/ 36 Reading / 36 Science / 11 Writing :()</p>