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Omega Weapon · 06-12-2006, 11:39 PM

**Beginning of Part Three**

OTHERS

Foreign Languages--I never took any of these exams, though I speak Latin and Greek proficiently. Actually, I consider it something of a personal triumph that I was able to get into Harvard without a single semester of foreign language study on the records I sent them (they wouldn't have been able to tell I spoke another language).

However, self-studying a language is hard, though not impossible. Unfortunately, having not taken the exams, I'm of little help to you. With Latin tests, you'll have to know the classics (in Latin), but that's all I've got.

Computer Science--Know nothing, can't help you. However, there are some other parts of the forum to this, and as always, I encourage the experts here to fill in what I don't know.

I guess that covers it. That only took four hours. Well, it's worth if one kid reads these books over the summer. They're not that hard, honestly. And if you read at a good clip (100 pages a day), you can read them all in a three month period.

When you get within a few months of the early May tests, start reading all the study guides on the Master Study Guide list. You need those to refresh. On that thread I'd recommend someone go through and link everything to Amazon, as I've done here.

A note on buying textbooks: on the whole they're huge rip-offs to buy new. $150 isn't cheap. When I've linked to these pages I assume that you'll only buy used or new from someone independently selling. It's amazing the murderous rates you can get for these books. A hardcover, 1,200-page Art History text goes for around $10, shipping including if you buy used. It's safe, or at least it was for me.

Learn from my experiences. Drop the $100 total on all these books. Read them the summer of your Junior of Sophomore year. Start reading their recommended study guides a few months prior. Take the tests, and you'll get all fives. This is the way to prepare.

Again, I'm doing this because I haven't done anything for this site, ever, till now. And I hope that someone will Sticky this (and the study guide thread) to help me help others.

Thanks for reading this trilogy better than Star Wars. Now I'm off to Harvard.

06-12-2006, 11:39 PM	#163
Omega Weapon New Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 5	Part III Beginning of Part Three OTHERS Foreign Languages--I never took any of these exams, though I speak Latin and Greek proficiently. Actually, I consider it something of a personal triumph that I was able to get into Harvard without a single semester of foreign language study on the records I sent them (they wouldn't have been able to tell I spoke another language). However, self-studying a language is hard, though not impossible. Unfortunately, having not taken the exams, I'm of little help to you. With Latin tests, you'll have to know the classics (in Latin), but that's all I've got. Computer Science--Know nothing, can't help you. However, there are some other parts of the forum to this, and as always, I encourage the experts here to fill in what I don't know. I guess that covers it. That only took four hours. Well, it's worth if one kid reads these books over the summer. They're not that hard, honestly. And if you read at a good clip (100 pages a day), you can read them all in a three month period. When you get within a few months of the early May tests, start reading all the study guides on the Master Study Guide list. You need those to refresh. On that thread I'd recommend someone go through and link everything to Amazon, as I've done here. A note on buying textbooks: on the whole they're huge rip-offs to buy new. $150 isn't cheap. When I've linked to these pages I assume that you'll only buy used or new from someone independently selling. It's amazing the murderous rates you can get for these books. A hardcover, 1,200-page Art History text goes for around $10, shipping including if you buy used. It's safe, or at least it was for me. Learn from my experiences. Drop the $100 total on all these books. Read them the summer of your Junior of Sophomore year. Start reading their recommended study guides a few months prior. Take the tests, and you'll get all fives. This is the way to prepare. Again, I'm doing this because I haven't done anything for this site, ever, till now. And I hope that someone will Sticky this (and the study guide thread) to help me help others. Thanks for reading this trilogy better than Star Wars. Now I'm off to Harvard.