[maydai3333]

^^ You never know about Stanford. Some girl I know got in early this year, and I heard she got a hugeeeee scholarship. As for senior year, I can tell its gonna be a pinkberry, especially with all those classes I'm taking. I'm kinda scared only because i heard a bunch of my classmates are taking dual-enrollment at the cc and I'm taking AP, which is so much harder. I wanted to take dual-enrollment, but my guidance counselor said AP looked better. But I know m GPA's, which will in turn affect my rank, will take a huge hit...IDK what to doooooo. lol.

As for SAT II's and AP exams, I'm not too worried. Well for the SAT II's I am. What subjects are you taking? The only one i'm kinda sure about is the Math II. IDK what other ones to take. AP Stats is my first one too!! Except, I know I'm gonna end up failing it because honestly, I dont remember anything from the past year, and the teacher did a horrible job of teaching.

What AP tests are you guys gonna be taking?

[&pikachuu__;]

LOL, i love reading your rants. I have similar thoughts on grades and stuff like that, but no more SATs for me. Just a quick question though, where do you plan on applying to? Does anyone have a definite list yet? I feel like such a slacker. LOL, I only have one school that I really want to go to. BLEHH! WE'RE GONNA BE SENIORS!!!

I'm kind of sad about being a senior. LOL I don't know why, but does anyone else get the feeling that you'll soon be out of your comfort zone and like...kind of LOST in the real world? X_X Or is that just me...:x

:[ I'm also really stressed about the AP tests coming up...I'm taking six of them and i want to cry. Also taking 2 SATII's in may and the reasoning test a third time in june. :(
ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS ON GETTING A 2300+?

agh.

[angelfightrJ]

Haha maydai3333, :x senior year is going to kill. I actually made my schedule somewhat easier than I originally planned. I was so set on taking AP Psych, but in my school, that class KILLS. It's really hard...a concept which confuses people who live in the other towns near mine because apparently, their psych classes are easy. Anyway, I can't fit that into my schedule because I decided to continue with something else...

So originally, my schedule = 8 APs (and there are 8 periods in a day for my school...well, 1 period would have been for some sort of physical education class/science lab period, but still...8 AP classes....my entire schedule would have been APs):
AP:
-Gov't
-Macro
-Bio
-Calc BC or AB
-Studio Art
-Psych
-Lit
-Spanish

-Health (mandatory, ew)
-and lab period/phys.ed class

But now, it's "somewhat" easier. Emphasize on "somewhat". Senior year will not be the easy OMFGSH AWESOME, YEAHHHHH CLASSES = JOKE as people say it is....well, it won't be until after all my AP exams in May. (Good thing I'm taking Physics this year...that means I won't have to take the Physics state exam in June in my senior year right before prom like the other kids who took Bio/Chem this year and are taking Physics next year HAHAHA SUCKS FOR THEM (: )

So now my schedule looks like this:
-AP Gov't
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Bio
-AP Bio (lab period)/Yoga (switches off every other day)
-AP Literature
-AP Studio Art
-AP Spanish
-AP Calc BC (:x...but might drop to AB...I just want to give BC a try)
-Health
-College Business Law (1/2 year (semester) course) & College Business Administration (1/2 year)
^that's the thing I substituted for Psych because...first off, Psych will be too much work and also, this shows consistency since I took law since soph year and I'm in the school's law club...(and also because I'm not sure if this goes for the president position or for all positions, but you can't apply unless you're in a law class ): )

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, still not fun.



Okay so my friend already told me that he got above a 2200 (yay! Haha he wanted me to help him cheat on the SAT in January in absurd ways such as buying the biggest eraser ever (as if I would be able to find the world's biggest eraser somewhere near where I live) and writing the answers on it (yeah, I too don't know how this was supposed to help him) except we ended up not being in the same room = he was devastated). He screwed up in January so he decided to cancel it and retake it in March...and apparently, so far, he's the only one that did well in March...except for my other friend who broke the 2000 mark! (: Yay! But yeah, so far, the general consensus in my school on the March SAT = BLEHHHHHHHH EW, DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.

People were like "Oh, what if (not putting his name here because...yeah, but he's that friend I mentioned above) gets a higher score than you?!" and I was like, "I'll buy him a meal."

They were all "OOOHHHHHHH" as if there was some intense competition going to happen.

Except there's not because I told him I'll buy him lunch or something if we both end up getting above a 2300 LOL.

maydai3333:
)': I envy you. Ugh, I wish May was just done and over with; I'd be done with SAT + APs! YAY!!! Um, haha where am I applying to? )': I actually have some colleges that I'm DEFINITELY applying to...strangely, my safeties are giving me a harder time than my "reach" colleges...because I keep switching them around. Example: I got totally turned off from UChicago because of what my guidance counselor said about it...I didn't rule it out entirely, but I don't really have the enthusiasm as I did before.

Let's just say that I am applying to all the colleges that I will get rejected to.

And from your posts, you don't seem like a slacker at all? Or maybe you're like me and you're deceiving that way. I'm a HUGEHUGEHUGE slacker...not good. My younger self (pre-high school self) would CRY by how pathetic I am by being a slacker/procrastinator/lazy bum that sleeps late every day and falls asleep in school...something I rarely did in middle school LOL.

pepe.RO: : P What if I DON'T apply to those places? *DUN DUN DUN* How do you know NKK isn't my dream college? NKK = NCC...haha. But yeah, please don't go around telling people where I want to apply to ^^'' I don't really like talking about that with people to be honest haha...even our friends... :x

By the way, you should try looking for other colleges that are good in education...google them up to give yourself more options (:!

JANG.: I'm ready to go to college, but at the same time, I'm all depressed that I'm aging so fast. I DO NOT WANT TO GROW UP. I'm actually thinking of a UC...but I don't know which one I'd like to apply to ): Anyway, I see some colleges on there that I want to apply to! (: Stanford, Duke (maybe), Emory (safety/just another option? My friend's brother goes there, but I'm not particularly like OMFGSH-I-MUST-GO-THERE-OR-I'LL-DIE passionate about it haha)

APPLY TO STANFORD.
Omgsh, Meena, wouldn't it be weird (and awesome) if we ended up going to the same college? WTH HAHAHA<3 Tuition's expensive, but hm...what's their financial aid like? Do scholarships and other stuff too! (:

Hahahaha, don't worry. I'm flipping out. I'm really, really worried for two of my APs considering I didn't learn anything in those two classes...the other one, I hope I can handle. SAT IIs = I'm taking in June...still debating whether or not to take one SAT II I had in mind that my hakwon teacher insisted that I do.

June is still going to be hell for me because I have to study for state exams (middle + end of June) and I have SAT IIs in the beginning of June.

May = APs & SAT...torture.

[maydai3333]

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So now my schedule looks like this:
-AP Gov't
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Bio
-AP Bio (lab period)/Yoga (switches off every other day)
-AP Literature
-AP Studio Art
-AP Spanish
-AP Calc BC (:x...but might drop to AB...I just want to give BC a try)
-Health
-College Business Law (1/2 year (semester) course) & College Business Administration (1/2 year)
^that's the thing I substituted for Psych because...first off, Psych will be too much work and also, this shows consistency since I took law since soph year and I'm in the school's law club...(and also because I'm not sure if this goes for the president position or for all positions, but you can't apply unless you're in a law class ): )

You're crazy. LOL, and I thought my schedule are bad. I'm so jealous you get to take yoga. We have no fun classes at my school. I think the only "fun" class I really got to take was drivers ed. And it's not that I'm a slacker, I just procrastinate and now that the year is almost over, I really just don't give a crap anymore.

[HELLA COLIN]

angelfightrJ, you're crazy! It's kinda funny how your schedule has more AP classes than my school does altogether. Hope you have fun next year!

[random azn]

So now my schedule looks like this:
-AP Gov't
-AP Macroeconomics
-AP Bio
-AP Bio (lab period)/Yoga (switches off every other day)
-AP Literature
-AP Studio Art
-AP Spanish
-AP Calc BC (:x...but might drop to AB...I just want to give BC a try)
-Health
-College Business Law (1/2 year (semester) course) & College Business Administration (1/2 year)
^that's the thing I substituted for Psych because...first off, Psych will be too much work and also, this shows consistency since I took law since soph year and I'm in the school's law club...(and also because I'm not sure if this goes for the president position or for all positions, but you can't apply unless you're in a law class ): )

Aw, man, your schedule is crazy! And you have 8 classes A DAY?! Or is it blocked? "A" Day-"B" Day?

-Hmm, AP Bio was mad hard at my school. I studied so much for it last year. And still didn't get a good score. The textbook was mad heavy.

-I'm always taking AP Lit next year, but I might just drop it and take British Lit. Since I'm more of a language person. AP Lit in my school is extremely boring and the teacher is mad annoying. AP Language is so much better.

-AP Clac? hehe, me too! I'm taking AP Stats along with it too. I hope I can balance two AP Math.

-I'm taking Business classes next year too, but it's a 3-hour class with an internship during second semester.

This is my schedule for next year:
-AP Lit (or British Lit: I might opt for the easy way out)
-AP Calc
-AP Stats (the teacher is hot )
-Psychology/Sociology (one semester for each)
-Physic (still debating on whether or not to take the AP of it)
-Intro to Business (3 hour class)

^^ I actually only have to take three classes (Lit, Psych & Accounting) next year to graduate, but...I don't really have anything better to do and...this would look good on college applications. Really happy to have block scheduling. Only 4 classes a day. I'm a happy camper. \

[Yuenie]

Junior year really sucks the most IMO. This month and next month will absolutely be the death of me with all these SATs and AP exams. I am really too lazy for my own good. I already took the SAT in January as a dry-run to see what happens if I don't study and I got 1880. >_< Now I'm taking it again in June.

Has anyone here already taken the SAT2 MathIC(aka Math 2) or American History? How'd you do and how'd you study for it? I didn't realize last year that the MathIC is precalculus and under so I didn't take it sophmore year... Now after taking a whole year of calculus, I don't remember precalc stuff!

[JANG.]

I'm sorry that I want to to get into a good college, get a good job, and repay my parents for everything they've done for me: every single sacrifice they made and every time they put up with stupid, teenage me...especially for my dad who basically devoted his life to working to help my family live happily and to put his two daughters in college when he couldn't have the same opportunity himself because he was too poor. I'm sorry I have different, higher aspirations and that I don't want to go to a state school/party school like everyone else.

wow. what you wrote about your parents, specifically your dad, is exactly the same thing i'm going through right now.
from the devotion to working 24/7, to putting two daughters in college, to not being able to have the same opportunity...just everything.
that's crazy. and because of all of that, as "cheesy" as it may sound, i really just wanna make my dad proud.
getting into a good college is the least i can do, you know?

^^ You never know about Stanford. Some girl I know got in early this year, and I heard she got a hugeeeee scholarship. As for senior year, I can tell its gonna be a pinkberry, especially with all those classes I'm taking. I'm kinda scared only because i heard a bunch of my classmates are taking dual-enrollment at the cc and I'm taking AP, which is so much harder. I wanted to take dual-enrollment, but my guidance counselor said AP looked better. But I know m GPA's, which will in turn affect my rank, will take a huge hit...IDK what to doooooo. lol.

As for SAT II's and AP exams, I'm not too worried. Well for the SAT II's I am. What subjects are you taking? The only one i'm kinda sure about is the Math II. IDK what other ones to take. AP Stats is my first one too!! Except, I know I'm gonna end up failing it because honestly, I dont remember anything from the past year, and the teacher did a horrible job of teaching.

What AP tests are you guys gonna be taking?

dang, i would kill to get even a small scholarship to stanford, haha. but really, stanford is my REACH school. applying to duke is even pushing it for me, LOL. and yeah, senior year is gonna be such a waste of my time. ugh, i can't even imagine how slow it's probably gonna go by. wait, the dual enrollment gives more credits than APs? or they count the same? i've heard that colleges prefer APs too though, but that wouldn't be fair for your GPA to go down, if the APs are harder and better to take. ah, i wish i were as calm about these exams coming up as some of you! i'm more worried about the AP exams because you only get one chance to pass them - as for the SAT IIs and ACT, i think i'll be taking each about 3 times. the SAT IIs i'm taking in may are gonna be like...practice tests. XD i don't know if i'll have time to even study for them with these AP exams coming up at the same time. ugh, i'll have to retake them in june and oct. i guess. i'm taking math II and biology (but i haven't decided between ecological or molecular yet). i'm only taking bio because i suck at everything else, haha. i mean, i'm bad at bio too, but not as much as history or lit. i heard the lit. test was extremely hard, so if you're a history person, you should try the US or world test, whichever one you're taking as a class right now! ohmygod, i'm scared about stat too. i mean, my teacher was pretty good, but i don't know how i'm gonna remember all those formulas. x_x

oh, and i'll be taking the AP Bio, AP US, AP Stat, and AP Lang. & Comp. exams next month. ;x

JANG.: I'm ready to go to college, but at the same time, I'm all depressed that I'm aging so fast. I DO NOT WANT TO GROW UP. I'm actually thinking of a UC...but I don't know which one I'd like to apply to ): Anyway, I see some colleges on there that I want to apply to! (: Stanford, Duke (maybe), Emory (safety/just another option? My friend's brother goes there, but I'm not particularly like OMFGSH-I-MUST-GO-THERE-OR-I'LL-DIE passionate about it haha)

APPLY TO STANFORD.
Omgsh, Meena, wouldn't it be weird (and awesome) if we ended up going to the same college? WTH HAHAHA<3 Tuition's expensive, but hm...what's their financial aid like? Do scholarships and other stuff too! (:

Hahahaha, don't worry. I'm flipping out. I'm really, really worried for two of my APs considering I didn't learn anything in those two classes...the other one, I hope I can handle. SAT IIs = I'm taking in June...still debating whether or not to take one SAT II I had in mind that my hakwon teacher insisted that I do.

June is still going to be hell for me because I have to study for state exams (middle + end of June) and I have SAT IIs in the beginning of June.

May = APs & SAT...torture.

LOL. i'm the exact opposite. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET OUT OF THIS CRAPPY TOWN. haha, i wanna grow up and move to a different state NOW, so that's why i'm already anxious for college. i'm applying to a bunch of CA colleges because that's ultimately where i wanna end up, but if the out-of-state tuition kills my parents, then i may not even be able to go there. :/ you're lucky emory is a safety! haha, that would be awesome. i think chapel hill is my only safety, which is pretty risky, i know. i'm not too passionate about emory either, but it's in georgia (my hometown!), and my cousin is going there right now, so it's a good option. you should apply to UCs and duke too! hahaha, that would be so crazy, if we ended up at the same place. XD you're light-years ahead of me though. (; i'll probably apply to stanford, because i wanna have at least one REACH-REACH-REACH college, haha. stanford and duke are gonna be definite rejections, but it's worth a shot, right? ;p i don't know what financial aid will be like as of now, but i already know i'll need scholarships and grants, and other stuff. i feel horrible that my parents are paying so much for my sister's out-of-state tuition at UCLA already. :/ and YES. hahaha, i though i was the only one freaking out. everyone seems so chill on here. i'm extremely worried about the APUS exam because i SUCK at history, and i'm even more worried about the AP lang. exam because my teacher didn't teach us ANYTHING the ENTIRE year. she's the worst teacher i've ever had. we haven't done any MC or practice essays at all. i have to self-study that entire course from now until the exam date. i should've signed up for the SAT IIs in june, with the exams in may and all, but i signed up for them in may because i wanted more chances to retake them. ;x i'll probably be taking them in may, june, and the fall. how many are you planning to take? oh yeah, and june will be hell because i have the SAT IIs and the ACT. crap. x_x

Has anyone here already taken the SAT2 MathIC(aka Math 2) or American History? How'd you do and how'd you study for it? I didn't realize last year that the MathIC is precalculus and under so I didn't take it sophmore year... Now after taking a whole year of calculus, I don't remember precalc stuff!

i'm taking it next month, so i don't have any experience, but i heard that for the math II test, barron's is highly recommended if you're aiming for an 800. and if you want a score in the mid-700s, princeton review is also really good. i got this from college confidential, and everyone on there made 770 or above, haha. you should be able to recognize pre-calc topics with a little bit of review, and since you're in calc, it should be helpful. (:


man, i've been going on college confidential way too much lately.
maybe that's why i'm psyching myself out, LOL.

[christee8876]

LOL. i'm the exact opposite. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET OUT OF THIS CRAPPY TOWN. haha, i wanna grow up and move to a different state NOW, so that's why i'm already anxious for college. i'm applying to a bunch of CA colleges because that's ultimately where i wanna end up.

duuuude. i totally can't wait to get out of my crappy town too.
i hate hate suburbia. sososososo boring. there's old people left and right. and it's a 40 minute drive to the nearest theme park or beach.
i'm just curious, but what state do you live in?
and i hate to let you down, but CA doesn't live up to its reputation...or maybe I don't like it here because I hate my neighborhood. haha but seriously, i would choose NYC over LA and SF any day.
but i guess CA isn't the worst place to live, like in my neighborhood in the bay area it's like 50% percent asian. lol i'm totally assuming you're asian

It's just that it's very frustrating when something like what I mentioned at the top of the page before this happens. I'm sorry I have different goals than you ( I'm not directing this to you...it's just a general 'you'/referring to people I know) and I'm sorry that my parents, friends, family members, teachers, etc. basically have super high expectations for me and I've basically been told that I have to get into Harvard and I actually remember being told this even when I was 5 or even before then, and that it's an immense amount of pressure.

I know this will sound totally insane, but I kindof envy the pressure that you get from your family and friends. my parents don't push me at all because they trust that i will do the best I can...but I can't help but think that if they actually push me a little bit, i'll be doing better in school. it's not like i have horrible grades and i'm not trying, but if i know someone will yell at me if i come home with a B, i would probably push myself more.
on a slightly funnier note, i remember my cousin telling me that her parents in law told her that her daughter, who is like 2 right now has to get into Yale or Harvard. i feel bad for my cousin's daughter, but i think it's so absurd that her grandparents are panning out her future when she can barely talk.

I'm really, really worried for two of my APs considering I didn't learn anything in those two classes...the other one, I hope I can handle. SAT IIs = I'm taking in June...still debating whether or not to take one SAT II I had in mind that my hakwon teacher insisted that I do.

June is still going to be hell for me because I have to study for state exams (middle + end of June) and I have SAT IIs in the beginning of June.

May = APs & SAT...torture.

oh. my. god. SATs APs GPAs
WHYYYY?! oh crap...STAR testing huh? (or another name in a different state....)
these 2-3 months are going to suck.
SAT IIs, AP tests, finals
WHY??!?!?!?! WHY?!?!!??! i swear, they bunched up all the tests to totally kill us with stress.
i'm going to a SATII math class...the highest i've gotten on a test is a 720. the average is 780 and 7/15 people in my class got a 800. the things is that i finish the first 30 questions in 30 minutes... and i totally stall on the last twenty. i spend like 20 minutes on the next 10 and completely run out of time for the last 10. gahhhh.
well i guess my score's an improvement from a 500 3 weeks ago.
I'm really worried for my APs too. well for Bio i'm not too worried because our teacher is hell so he's prepared us to some degree, but my APUSH teacher hasn't taught at all....so much stress.
I would take the SATＩＩ that you're debating about. because you don't have to send in your score if you do badly right? so there's no harm in taking the SATII.
ahaha i got my sparknotes APBio stuff in the mail yesterday and i totally screamed my head off when i saw the sparkchart. YAYYYYY. sparknotes is some amazing stuff.

Junior year really sucks the most IMO. This month and next month will absolutely be the death of me with all these SATs and AP exams. I am really too lazy for my own good. I already took the SAT in January as a dry-run to see what happens if I don't study and I got 1880. >_< Now I'm taking it again in June.
Has anyone here already taken the SAT2 MathIC(aka Math 2) or American History? How'd you do and how'd you study for it? I didn't realize last year that the MathIC is precalculus and under so I didn't take it sophmore year... Now after taking a whole year of calculus, I don't remember precalc stuff!

i totally agree with you. but I think 1st semester senior year will be pretty bad too with college apps and last minute SATs. good luck on SATs in june. it shouldn't be too hard to raise your score i took them for the second time in march and my score went down 120 points. hahaha. everything went down except for my essay...which i got a 10 on again, but my only prep was writing 3 essays the night before.
I think to prep for math 2, you need to just do a bunch of problems...it's the only way you'll get better. and the pre-calc stuff is really basic, so don't stress too much.

weelll...off to outline 5 APUSH chapters. wheee. what a way to spend saturday night.
i can't believe spring break is over
if any one is curious how i spent my break, i spent it my going to SATII math from 12-3:30 m-f, 10:30-3:30 on thursday, and hw is to do another SATII math test. *sigh*

edit- i think this is the longest post i've ever made. o_o

[kiwistar]

SAT - 2120

too bad all my grades dropped this 6 weeks.
I have a C in Physics. Definitely the worst class I've ever taken.

next year's schedule:
AP Bio
AP AB Calc
AP Eng IV
Orch
AP Govt/AP Economics
Senior release

I can't wait to be independent, but what I'm worried about is making friends going into college. I'll leave friends i've known for 4-5 years, and be surrounded by complete strangers. I'm a naturally shy person, so i'm not exactly sure how i'm going to deal with it :/

[JANG.]

duuuude. i totally can't wait to get out of my crappy town too.
i hate hate suburbia. sososososo boring. there's old people left and right. and it's a 40 minute drive to the nearest theme park or beach.
i'm just curious, but what state do you live in?
and i hate to let you down, but CA doesn't live up to its reputation...or maybe I don't like it here because I hate my neighborhood. haha but seriously, i would choose NYC over LA and SF any day.
but i guess CA isn't the worst place to live, like in my neighborhood in the bay area it's like 50% percent asian. lol i'm totally assuming you're asian

YES! haha, i'm not the only one that hates where i live. i can guarantee that your town is 100x better than mine though. i live in north carolina, wilmington to be specific. and i absolutely detest this place. there's NOTHING going on here. it's only good for old people, seriously. it's boring, everything is tiny (we only have one mall, and it doesn't even have two floors), and all of the people here are love-to-go-to-the-beach-and-tan-while-wearing-sperrys/rainbowflipflops-and-listening-to-country-music teens. really, everybody is the same. there's only two asian people in my school, including me, haha. it's just sad how there's no diversity at all. i went to CA for a week recently to visit my sister at UCLA, and i just seriously love it there. my mom drove around to tons of different places, and each one was awesome. it's the perfect environment for a college kid in my opinion. NYC is a little too...busy for me. i've been there a couple times, and it's one of the best places to visit, but i don't think i'd wanna live there for four years. maybe when it's time to look for jobs and internships, but not for college. ;x trust me, coming from where i live, you're so lucky to be in a place like CA! well, i don't exactly know what your neighborhood is like, but i still guarantee that it can't get worse than where i live, haha. and yeah, i'm korean, so some ethnic diversity in a city is important to me. wilmingotn has none whatsoever. plus, you can't go wrong with a koreatown. (;

[angelfightrJ]

Yuenie: if you don't remember precalc stuff, just take math IIC. i did a few practice tests of IC and IIC, and really, it's not that big of a difference. also, i heard things about IC...like colleges don't really care about it that much? and that it has a REALLY, REALLY bad curve compared to IIC?

wow. what you wrote about your parents, specifically your dad, is exactly the same thing i'm going through right now.
from the devotion to working 24/7, to putting two daughters in college, to not being able to have the same opportunity...just everything.
that's crazy. and because of all of that, as "cheesy" as it may sound, i really just wanna make my dad proud.
getting into a good college is the least i can do, you know?

yeah, that's all they asked for really throughout my whole life.
and next year, when i get those rejection letters, i'm going to feel like i failed at life and failed them.
..and failed myself.
lol i took bio but i completely failed at it because first off, i suck at science...and secondly, when i was in 9th grade, i had this absurd thought that i must get an 800. when i took it in 9th grade, i was like "wow this is so easy! (barely studied)" and "i think i'm going to get a 780 or something". but then i went ahead and canceled it because oh man, that 800 is better. and i canceled it several more times throughout sophomore year and finally, i got fed up and just took it without canceling...
..and did terribly. i should have just left it in 9th grade. i don't know what the fudge was wrong with me then.

and i also did terribly on chem. i thought i should take it because i didn't do well in chem in school last year so i wanted to show colleges "hey look even though i did badly in school, look at my SAT II score! that means that i actually knew my stuff"...and also because personally, i was really screwed up last year because of my friend...not going into details. no, he didn't die/get a terminal disease/etc. he's fine right now.

UGH FKELJLJWALKJLWELFWJA. and my guidance counselor wants to send my SAT, SAT II, ANDDDDDDDDDD ACT scores (i finally decided i want to take the ACT so i'm taking after the summer i think). wth?

haha yeah, i don't know what UCs to apply to though ):??? i don't really know them except UCLA and i knew other ones because i've seen people mention them on soompi...and uc davis because apparently kevjumba goes there LOL. i don't think i'm planning on applying to duke since my list of colleges to apply to just grew exponentially and i have to cut down on some colleges lol.

btw, meena, maybe this might help? check out fastweb...it's really good if you set up a profile and stuff there...it's easier to find scholarships and etc.

i'm planning on taking SAT II US, possibly lit (but you just said that lit is impossible? or someone else did), math IIC (but i suck at math), and now the person who runs my hakwon wants me to take sat ii physics because i have to study for ap physics anyway....but i suck at physics and i don't understand it and my school teacher is super nice and lenient....but like...he's not really good at teaching it, no offense T_T

btw, i'm on collegeconfidential right now. needless to say, i just got BEYOND depressed looking at the stats for yale. i fail at life.

christee8876: haha, i like the pressure sometimes...when i was little, i liked knowing that people had expectations of me and they thought i was responsible, dependable, and mature. that all went down the drain haha...i grew more immature as the years went on, become a slob/lazy bum/etc, and yeah. but yeah, don't envy the pressure...i don't think a lot of people know, but the pressure gets to you. i kind of had really bad breakdowns last year when i was alone. it's not fun...trust me. even if miraculously my parents became all chill and didn't push me at all, i'd still have that pressure from the past...and that'll make me fall into a hole of depression (haha sounds so emo!) next year when i realize i freaking let myself down and i disappointed my parents.

so yeah, definitely, pressure/pushing you is good...if it's done in moderation (: it's always good to have a little push haha.

by the way, you know that thing with your cousin's daughter? that's basically the story of my life. :/ it's not even my parents that do this. it's my entire family, friends, teachers (well, less so recently b/c i don't give a hoot about school anymore so i'm not their favorite star student haha...i'm just there writing notes in some classes even if i do well but they all expect me to be successful and go to a good college), classmates, and acquaintances that do this. talk about a lot of pressure. (:

that's why i don't know what the hell i'm going to do next year when i get all those freaking rejection letters from all the colleges i've ever wanted to go to. i don't know if i'm able to handle it (especially from my dream school...i think i'd be okay with the others haha).

[xboredguy]

lol you kids are so cute

venting and ranting about SATs and GPA and what not
a year from now your gonna laugh at all of this

i know i did this year
best of luck to you all
since class of 2010 is gonna go through some rough mini cooper

[maydai3333]

YES! haha, i'm not the only one that hates where i live. i can guarantee that your town is 100x better than mine though. i live in north carolina, wilmington to be specific. and i absolutely detest this place. there's NOTHING going on here. it's only good for old people, seriously. it's boring, everything is tiny (we only have one mall, and it doesn't even have two floors), and all of the people here are love-to-go-to-the-beach-and-tan-while-wearing-sperrys/rainbowflipflops-and-listening-to-country-music teens. really, everybody is the same. there's only two asian people in my school, including me, haha. it's just sad how there's no diversity at all. i went to CA for a week recently to visit my sister at UCLA, and i just seriously love it there. my mom drove around to tons of different places, and each one was awesome. it's the perfect environment for a college kid in my opinion. NYC is a little too...busy for me. i've been there a couple times, and it's one of the best places to visit, but i don't think i'd wanna live there for four years. maybe when it's time to look for jobs and internships, but not for college. ;x trust me, coming from where i live, you're so lucky to be in a place like CA! well, i don't exactly know what your neighborhood is like, but i still guarantee that it can't get worse than where i live, haha. and yeah, i'm korean, so some ethnic diversity in a city is important to me. wilmingotn has none whatsoever. plus, you can't go wrong with a koreatown. (;

LOL, its the same in my town. It's full of old people that drive effin 30 MPH on the main road here. We only have one mall too, and half the stores are gone...I have to drive almost 40-45 minutes away to go to a somewhat decent mall. All everyone ever does around here, including me is movies and the beach. Every weekend of every week of ever single flippin month. There are no asain stores that sell Asian food around here, and the one that does has all this like expired crap. We half 12 Asians in my school out of close to 2000? I used to live in NYC, and I swear, I miss it there so much, but I'm so ready to get out of this place.

lol you kids are so cute

venting and ranting about SATs and GPA and what not
a year from now your gonna laugh at all of this

i know i did this year
best of luck to you all
since class of 2010 is gonna go through some rough mini cooper

haha thanks for the encouragement.

As of today, school offically started again. I was sooo not in the mood to get up.

OH did anyone here apply for Economics of Leaders?

[prechuz_azn]

Oh my gosh, less than a month
until the AP U.S. History.


and SATs...I was doing the practice test
and about a quarter through I got REALLY
unmotivated at the continuity of it all
so I took a break.
x.x

I'm going to take the June SATs, I hope I do well
so I don't have to take it a second time in October x.x

[christee8876]

best of luck to you all
since class of 2010 is gonna go through some rough mini cooper

I'm so afraid that it's going to be even harder to get into college next year if the economy doesn't get better. and the odds are that the economy is going to get worse.
like seriously, i'm freaking out.
thanks for the luck. we're going to need it.

JANG....okay...you win...*taken out* isn't as bad as wilmington sounds. at least you're so close to the beach. it's just that suburbia is insanely boring. it's definitely safer than the city, but it's boring.
I went to NY and LA a couple years ago, and I loved the craziness of NY. the envoiornment is so different. you know how some people can't sleep with cras zooming by, I sleep so much better with that noise. it's like...comforting? haha

...i just checked my grades online, and i realized that my apush grade dropped 4% because i forgot to do a homework assignment. like a did...about 1/2 of it in class the day it was assigned, so i turned it in, figuring i would get some credit. but i got a 0/10. geez. i used to have a 98.3%, thanks to over 30 points ofextra credit. my A in APUSH is slowly slipping away. i need to make up my B+ from last semester.
oh, what prep book for APUSH are you guys getting? my teacher recommended REA, but I don't really like it. my friend says that AMSCO is good though.

[touchthesky]

^ my APUSH grade dropped 3% cuz i forgot to do my hw as well >_< i used to have 97%
but it's okay...im positive i'm getting at least an A- this semester cuz of major grade inflation (thank goodness) so even if i bomb the last unit test i should still have an A. hopefully i dont bomb it though

as for review books, get AMSCO for sure. i got mine off amazon but i'm pretty sure you can get it at their official site for cheaper.

we had another APUSH MC practice test today and i did soo much better than last time. i got 54% last time (yea horrid...) and 81 this time! but it was a partner test so i'm wondering if i would've done horrible anyway if it was individual..haha.

as for colleges, i basically have one choice and its in state. i wish i was smarter cuz i'd have stanford as a choice. i visited the campus last week and it was sooo effing beautiful! and i could live with my uncle. but no, im stuck with UW-seattle and living at home with my parents T_T

[StealthGnome]

Oi. We just finished spring break and today sucked. I felt like crap the entire day.

All this bad news is depressing. Anything cool happening with you guys? lol

I've been addicted to Facebook and we don't have a group so I made one. =] It would be good to put a face to the username.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=79159909803

Post in the discussion board your Username too.

[angelfightrJ]

well, i heard the AMSCO book is really good. luckily, i got my copy for free (: but anyway, yeah. i was a little skeptical, but i'm definitely using it because the people over at CC raveddd about it and every single person and teacher out there seems to recommend it. i also have princeton review. i'm not going to use barrons for history stuff EVER again....they have so many superfluous information in there ):

i'm so screwed for ap physics. i'm not even joking when i say this, but i know nothing. definitely not ready for the AP level, yet i'm in AP, and i'm not even sure about the state exam level...seriously, :x my teacher's so nice so he's really lenient and kind of easy >__<

do you guys have any suggestions on how to study for ap physics b if you happen to suck at science and you learn nothing at school? ): ughh fjewl;jaflwejkaj.

[christee8876]

StealthGnome: sorry...I closed down my facebook a couple of months ago. It was taking up too much of my time. so I had to exert some self discipline. haha

angelfighterJ: duuude....i'd just get like 2-3 ap physics review books and study from those. haha i have no better recommendation for you. :[

thouchthesky: UW-Seattle is a really good med school isn't it? seattle is so pretty!!

I ordered my AMSCO book today. thanks for the input! but i'm keeping my REA until it comes. I'm so scared of the APUSH AP exam. we have 10 more new chapters to learn before the test. actually wait, no. I'm scared of all of the AP tests. there's so much pressure to do well on them...
gahhh. good luck to everyone who's taking AP tests!!! oh. and do colleges see your AP scores?