<p>Hi, I am a sophomore attending a public school engineering magnet program.</p>
<p>My rank for freshman year was 28 out of 59X, I don't know what my GPA is but my average is 103 point something, and my PSAT scores are 56 Critical Reading, 74 Math, 53 Writing.</p>
<p>Quite frankly, I am reading other people's threads, and I feel... more or less average...</p>
<p>I am unsure of what schools I want to be taking,or even what a major in robotics would be called... the obvious for robotics are schools like Caltech and MIT, but what are some others?</p>
<p>I am have also been terrible at keeping up with this looking at colleges thing, I am 100 percent planning on going to colleges, some way or another, but I have been unsure about which schools to apply to, which scholarships to do, and so on. </p>
<p>Also, this is my first post here, yay, if you would like more information, I'll be keeping up on this thread. You all seems like nice people, a rarity to find for this age group.</p>
<p>Edits:</p>
<p>A reason for this is that I am unsure about the specifics of everything, I am quite confused about if I meet the standards, what colleges look at, which colleges to even pick, what a robotics major is, how may robotics majors there are, scholarships, and stuff. Basically, I am lost in a sea of information and not sure where to start. My rank, looking at other people's rank on this site, is pretty low, since I see many number 1 ranks and such, but I was a pretty terrible student in my freshman year, missing papers here and there, sophomore year I am taking things very seriously.</p>
<p>Also, about my ranking, here is the problem. It is a very hard to describe problem.</p>
<p>My school has 2 magnet programs. The one I am in I think is the better program, I like the material taught in it better, the types of classes offered, the peers (I like my nerdy crowd more than the socialites), and I just think it is better, but the other program has what I call "ranking steroids", to where they have classes that are easier than my programs classes, but my program's classes only count as normal, while their's counts as pre-ap or even AP. they even have a class that is a combo of history and english, counts as AP, while sophomores can't even take AP and the highest they can take is english II preap.</p>