<p>My first SAT IIs this weekend. I’m supernervous because it’s unlike anything I’ve ever done.</p>
<p>Another thing about IB is that since the curriculum is spread over two years, my biology knowledge (and math knowledge, and english knowledge, and…) won’t be complete until I graduate, and thus too late to do well on the SAT IIs.</p>
<p>Philovitist, as the hickey-necked librarian at my school put it, easy bib doesn’t do the correct formatting, it adds the URL which shouldn’t there, I expect the IB will want consistent formatting for extended essays around the world</p>
<p>Agreeeeed, the stuff I needed to know for the Bio SAT 2 (which I took months ago) I am only learning now, and I’ve found out that all that I needed to know for the Bio SAT 2 is basically everything I will learn during my senior year…so I basically had to learn everything I was supposed to learn over the course of this year within 3 weeks…</p>
<p>I agree with you, Philo, about regretting IB. If I get in Yale, then everything was worth it and I’ll be happier than I’ve ever been in my life! If not, well… yeah.</p>
<p>And at our school, we just choose between biology and chemistry.</p>
<p>I only sent Yale my ACT scores. Hope they don’t look unfavorably on that. I think it’ll be okay, though, because the ACT is much more common where I live.</p>
<p>If IB is the sort of institution that gets nitpicky over the bibliography being consistent across the world, then I was misled even more than I thought in the information session. ^_^</p>
<p>easybib doesn’t even do APA style for free if I remember correctly.
I think I just used owl purdue for this assignment.</p>
<p>does anyone ever wonder what kind of people these IB examiners are? I mean, my teachers have been describing them as some sort of isolated population that thrives on cutting marks during exams</p>
<p>My teachers emphasize how easily offended they are if you talk about religion or politics. :P</p>
<p>They’re the same sort of people as those who teach IB courses.</p>
<p>Is it just me or is anyone else finding it hard to do any other uni supplements while waiting for SCEA results? major case of sernioritis right now</p>
<p>YES, redboldx! That’s exactly how I feel.</p>
<p>Doing Yale’s supplement kinda made more committed to it. I was debating between applying there and applying to Duke (better chances, somewhat lesser return, finaidwise), but once I wrote my why yale essay, I just HAD to get in.</p>
<p>My Why Duke essay is not even started.</p>
<p>I LOVED writing the yale supplement, had the time of my life (as far as writing supplements go LOL). I tried doing others but found the questions so dry and mundane. Have any of you seen the princeton supplement? I couldn’t decide which essay topic to do because they were all equally trite. Harvard was okay to write, columbia was slightly more interesting, and I really enjoyed the MIT supplement as well</p>
<p>@CantConcentrate - ah, thank you. I don’t know whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing… any idea what time of day? hahaha</p>
<p>Any of you want me to hardcore chance you? I can give you really specific percentages based on hard data. If you give me a list of colleges, I can compute your chance of getting into at least one of them — or two of them, or so forth.</p>
<p>I’m really bored.</p>
<p>Philo, I’ve been scrolling through pats acceptance/ deferral/ rejection profiles and it seems test scores and grades, while incredibly important, are only the framework (I know, I know, we’ve all heard this before). I’ve heard of tons of people with SATs higher or lower than 2100 getting in, especially in the early rounds, because their essays and guidance/teacher recs were mind-blowing</p>
<p>Oh, sure, that’s why it’s just ‘chances’. Percentiles, unless zero or a hundred, can’t tell you if you’ll get in or not, but what proportion of people with similar stats to yours (scores, gpa, ecs, etc.) will probably be accepted. It’s the variables you speak of that decide which individuals are part of that proportion, and no percentile can ever change that.</p>
<p>For colleges like Yale, though, the percentiles usually just tell you what you already know — crapshoot. Though I did get my first actual 50%+ today. Superstrong app, and still nowhere near 100. Lol.</p>
<p>aha, that’s not reassuring at all. But it is the truth - with the top colleges, your decision turns a lot on how lucky you are.</p>
<p>Chances are always so depressing.</p>
<p>Have any of you guys actually met the admissions officer servicing your area? I met mine, he was in his mid-twenties.</p>
<p>I haven’t met mine, but usually admissions officers seem pretty young. How does anyone end up in that kind of job, anyway?</p>
<p>Eh. Que ser</p>