<p>Taking the SAT October 10th, guess there is a few things I should look over.</p>
<p>Applied to Universisty of Illinois-UC ( still have to send test score and transcript), I know that I like the school but I’m starting to like it a lot more than I thought I would… reminds me of University of Michigan.</p>
<p>Taking the SAT October 10th, guess there is a few things I should look over.</p>
<p>Me too. Only more to stress over. =)</p>
<p>Did you guys not take it as juniors? Regardless, good luck!
I’m thinking of taking it in December.</p>
<p>I did. It totally sucked (CR ehem). I haven’t even studied for CR haha. Please pray for me.</p>
<p>O ok, well hopefully you do better:)</p>
<p>No I didn’t take it as a junior, my school doesn’t take the SAT at all ( live in Michigan), entire district etc… all do ACT.
I’ve been really stressing out about SAT due to a lot of the schools on my list average scores ( speaking of the ACT scale, which I’m more familier with grading scale of low numbers) around 30… such as University of Michigan ( I expect my SAT to be much below). There are other universities where average score is lower that I find myself to like, one to mention as I’ve did recently, University of Illinois-UC which does reminds me of University of Michigan ( and MSU in a way also) but their average score is around a 28 ( still high for me ).</p>
<p>Yeah I’m still in the exciting process of applying to schools.</p>
<p>I just did math practice test and it seems better before. (need to higher) I’m thinking do a 25 minute times CR test in a quiet room at school tomorrow. Then I will call it a day, and when I get home… maybe sleep? =D</p>
<p>As for tonight, I have homework to start now. =D</p>
<p>Then hopefully I won’t be as blah, though I have to do a lab for physics this weekend, and I have to finish a write up for a chem lab (actually I haven’t even started lol) and etc. So my stress may just continue until next Friday. Hopefully not. =) (half day may just be what I need.)</p>
<p>How did you guys do?:)</p>
<p>Yeah, that SAT sucked. I got an 800 or close to it on W and M. But like a 700 probably on CR. I hated that CR. With a passion.</p>
<p>That’s not bad. Hopefully you’ll get around 2350:)</p>
<p>gotta start an art history powerpoint right now (promised to email it tongiht to one of my group members)</p>
<p>oof</p>
<p>Had to cancel Bio M test because I know I bombed the test today. :/</p>
<p>Maybe God does not want me to retake a 720 and do better.</p>
<p>I can’t figure out what I should volunteer for. I want to do something meaningful. My intent is to attribute to an organization that will benefit the world. Instead, I’ve signed up for opportunities where the volunteers exceed the participants and there are weight lists. (sigh) I want to do something meaningful, not stand around doing nothing!
I want to be active within my community and the world itself:)</p>
<p>why the hell did i take creative writing? **** my sense. im unwillingly writing a childrens story.</p>
<p>^^ I feel the same way :(</p>
<p>I went to a new high school, and since they supposedly thinks everyone from Richmond VA is ■■■■■■■■, they took away all my honor and ap classes. So now im in my junior year with only one AP and a bunch of normal classes, in contrast to all honors and AP’s if I had stayed in my old school. ■■■</p>
<p>Probably messed up on a few CR q’s on the SAT yesterday and made some dumb mistakes on math. Hopefully I’ll still be able to get a 2300+ but it might not happen if the curve is really harsh this time around… :(</p>
<p>You know what is totally fair? How the middle class get ****** in the butt when it comes to pay for college. Reagan sure did f-up FAFSA, I tell you what. Not considering medical expenses and debt (including a parents college debt that they STILL have 20 some years later) is probably the BEST idea for FAFSA. Cause, you know, when unexpected medical bills pop up, those should not affect a family’s income in no way what so ever. For example, let’s say your sister was diagnosed with Autism and you parents spent 60k a year on her therapy for 3 years. And now that it is FINALLY covered by insurance, the wonderful company that is Aetna is increasing the amount your parents will spend by $6,000 and they will probably lose the coverage for your sister’s therapy anyways.</p>
<p>Now add on to this: You’ve been attending a community college to save them money and living at home. But now that you finally know what you want to do for the rest of your life and you know you want to go to UT Austin and will be accepted come April, the only thing standing in your way is money. That lovely green stuff that means so much to that top 1% and all those ignorant others that think those top 1% act in the middle and lower classes best interests. Scholarships are there, but, as said, FAFSA will only offer a subsidized Stafford Loan in the amount of $6,500. Not that you won’t use it, but it is a laughable amount. So now you have to put your future in the hands of others, whether they be scholarship committees or the university financial aid office who will review your special circumstances form and decide if you are worthy of any extra aid.</p>
<p>Finally, add on a huge heaping pile of guilt because your parents tell you not to worry about money. They will cut any expenses they can to send you to school, including renting a trailer instead of the amazing deal of a rental house they are in to save a few hundred dollars a month (they are not living beyond there means in this current house and found a great rental deal and landlord). They tell you it is your time to be the focus of the family and the guilt increases as you realize you will be the reason for their lower quality of life. You want to get a job, but you are packing in so many classes and don’t qualify for work-study, you can’t find a job that will work around your busy school schedule.</p>
<p>The only solution you can see in sight is some miracle of a benefactor stepping in and saying, “Hey, no worries. Put in on my tab.” So much so, that you dream about this happening. And you beg and pray to God that it happens. You buy a lottery ticket every week and hope that just this one time you will win something, anything at all. And your exhausted about it. You just want to give up and go to a lesser university closer to home, but then you won’t get any aid and your parents will still end up having to pay more.</p>
<p>It’s just a fair system.</p>
<p>*Note: I am not saying that lower income families should not receive, just that they shouldn’t get everything. (i.e. they qualify for almost all paid, plus grants, plus work study) Split it up, will ya?</p>
<p>^Sorry:(</p>
<p>I can’t seem to get up at 6am. I should start investing more effort into that so I don’t become a fat, ugly, lazy human waste of life. Actually, I don’t think that at all. It must be the sleep deprivation:/ O well, time to go to bed:)</p>
<p>I just looked at someone’s ECs and my eyes hurt from opening them in shock too many times.
I am contemplating putting “analyzing my parents’ body language and predicting their future behavior” on my college app. >3></p>