you tell me what to do. ill listen.

Colleges & Universities A-Z Princeton University
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<p>Ok, i think i have to resolve this last resort... i have so much to do in the next week that i dont even know where to restart or how to even do them efficiently. so please pretend that im a robot/computer/machine and you have to dummyfeed me to tell me what i should do.</p>

<p>here is a list of things</p>

<p>-College apps to (MIT, Harvard, Yale, UChicago, PENN, Cornell, JHU, Columbia, and Dartmouth. (myabe Caltech if there's time.)
I've started most of time, almost finished the common and finished the ones ive started. the only one i havnt started is Penn. It's mainly the essays and small paragraphs i have to worry about.</p>

<p>-Study for SAT 1 in jan.. which is driving me nuts b/c i dont know how to improve my critical reading. got 690 in V. I need to study a bit of vocab too. maybe 500? How would you study in a systematic way? what would you do?</p>

<p>-Read Othello and 3 other novels :(</p>

<p>-Send updates to Princeton. I still want to go to princeton over any other school.</p>

<p>-Schoolwork - i see these as lease important and urgent...</p>

<p>Please help. esp with sat studying and apps. how would you approach them?</p>

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<p>SAT - Don't fuss over it in dec. Devote yourself to the apps and essays</p>

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<p>-Finish your apps. Double check spelling. Make sure you sign everything. I finished some short answer things last night, so I'm done. weeeee.</p>

<p>-You probably should worry about the SAT's after the apps are due.</p>

<p>-Sparknotes can really help the busy person. </p>

<p>-Were you deferred? I don't really know much about that.</p>

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<li>School work? ha</li>
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<p>And most of all, have a merry christmas! (did you ask for an SAT prep book? If you did, thats sick)</p>

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<p>Finish your applications first. Period. Screw the SAT's and any Princeton updates, for now. You can always send Princeton more stuff in January or February if you had to. And you can practice the SAT's after the new year. For Othello and the other novels, read the sparknotes or something.</p>

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<p>In all honesty, I would say if you feel like you have too much to do, don't apply to all of those schools. 10 apps to do? That's a /lot/. I'd narrow it down if you can - are there any schools on that list where you wouldn't be happy? Are you applying to any just for the name? etc. etc.</p>

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<p>Remember, for college apps there are essays where you can modify a pre-existing one for a new question. (Like, I'm using my personal statement for Penn's autobiography question) Also, for SATs, get the Princeton Review's online self-directed SAT thing. You can skip over all the stuff you already know so you don't waste time, and they send you lots of advice on how to learn vocab and a book of vocab words that's fairly useful. I found their analogy tips very useful as well. Just take their reading comp advice with a grain of salt (they tell you NOT to read the entire passage, just to try to skip around and only find bits that pertain to the questions...this does not work) and it should hopefully improve your score. (Also, it's not too expensive....I think around $75)</p>

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<p>One quick question.....did your GC already fill out their end of the apps?</p>

<p>Our school had a cutoff date of December 15th, which I think is totally unfair.</p>

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<p>i say screw your homework. i never did mine for two months. PENN's essay require you to think REAL hard. i haven't started ine either. but i have only that essay to do. :D</p>