<p>henryclay: thank you so much for your suggestions and advice <3 i go to a really small college prep school, so i’m basically forced to take all these courses =___= or not forced, but there’s competitions from where i am (although it’s incomparable to larger competitive public and private school). i’m thinking of taking physics and japanese for SAT IIs (i’m not so brilliant at math) 
but one thing that you did point out that i never thought of before was the whole prep scores > essays, recs, etc. O___O it clearly makes sense though, so i’ll do my best to put in a lot of effort into my prep scores and write awesome essays 
thank you thank you!</p>
<p>wartsandall: thanks a lot to you too! 
i will ask my principal for a rec and see if she agrees. i e-mail her a lot asking about things at our school, so hopefully she’ll say something like i’m not afraid to ask questions or something like that? i will be taking the ACT and SAT again for sure, so hopefully both will be appealing. thanks again for your time, thoughts, and for chancing me!</p>
<p>ilikeuw: i like your username but more than that, i like your advices and i’m very grateful for them. i don’t think you’re cheesy at all, but i don’t think i’m as well-rounded as other students on this website. not to mention, i’m seriously lacking in community services, which isn’t too good. thanks for the chances and time! you’re a seriously great confidence booster :)</p>
<p>THANKS TO EVERYONE! i think that’s all i’ll be asking for thank you so much for all your advices and thoughts - you have no idea how much your opinions matter to me. thank you a zillion times over good luck to every one of you, i hope we’ll all make it to the schools we want, and perhaps we’ll be classmates ;)</p>
<p>(if you still want to contribute your thoughts and time, that’d be really cool, it’s still welcomed, but not needed) i’ll be checking often. i don’t know much about universities other than the ones i want to attend to, but if you’d like me to chance you, i’ll do my best.</p>
<p>MAHALO (thank you) :)</p>