<p>Berkeley/Stanford</p>
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<li>Not doing an internship; instead lifeguarding. For fun.</li>
<li>Learning more this year than I had last year in my classes. Emphasizing the process of learning much more than merely getting A’s.</li>
<li>Being an interesting person.</li>
<li>Maintaining my 5-year old writing website; interviewing more authors than I had last year.</li>
<li>Entering writing competitions.</li>
<li>Hacking the SAT method, doing well by thinking like ETS.</li>
<li>Maintaining my decile rank.</li>
</ol>