<p>i think it was yescalcnohis(at)yahoo.com</p>
<p>Great going Ishmael! </p>
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I second that!</p>
<p>I hope you are considering other need-blind/need-based colleges too, though I’m confident you’ll get into Princeton</p>
<p>9 800s :o!! <em>faints</em></p>
<p>I third that!</p>
<p>can someone try yescalcnohs and see if he replies?</p>
<p>omg man. damn. u inspire me so much. i cant believe u have done so well…</p>
<p>ok we should to keep this thread alive until ishmael comes back…</p>
<p>alive…</p>
<p>what can I say? If Princeton does not accept you I don’t think there is a chance in hell that I will get in!</p>
<p>That is some SERIOUS inspiration right there… i am KINDA in the same situation right now, i am going to be a 16 year old high school graduate, i am homeschooled, my step dad died last year, and my mother is trying her hardest to support me right now with what little she has. No one in my family has ever went to college, and i really don’t know how to go about appyling to them, i want to be a non- invasive cardiologist, the last time i checked, which was about 3 months ago, i had a GPA of 3.5 and i have not taken any of the SAT’s… if ANYONE has ANY advice for me, please feel free to EMAIL me at <a href="mailto:LOOKYMYSN@aol.com">LOOKYMYSN@aol.com</a> … any advice/ help would be GREATLY appreciated … Thanks </p>
<p>-Samantha</p>
<p>Advice for Samantha2788: prepare for the SAT I and SAT II tests by getting the College Board books on those tests, and then take them soon. You don’t HAVE TO graduate early, although you may want to in your circumstances. I’m a homeschooling dad (oldest child age twelve) and would be happy to answer more questions.</p>
<p>well i am almost done with my credits that i need to graduate, i have finished ALL of my core classes, and i only need to finish about 2 more elective classes, and then i can graduate in june with the class of 2005 at my original high school. What should i expect when i go in to take the SAT’s? and can i take then after i have graduated high school or no?</p>
<p>Now I’m puzzled, Samantha, because I’m not sure what your local high school has to do with it. If you are homeschooled, can’t you decide what your graduation year is? </p>
<p>To apply to colleges, you have to fit their admission application cycle. A FEW state schools still have admission slots for next school year, but even those may not be able to process your application on time if you’ve never taken the SAT. (But ask, maybe you will find out you still have time.) Probably, you need to find something useful to do during your 2005-2006 “school year” (which could be working for money, given your family circumstances) and fill out applications in the fall for admission to the FOLLOWING YEAR’s (2006-2007) entering class at the colleges you desire to apply to. You should have a good chance at some state schools, if you do reasonably well on the entrance tests, but Princeton (the topic of this forum) is not easy to get into for anyone. </p>
<p>What you should expect when you take the SAT or the ACT college entrance tests is a bunch of multiple-choice questions about reading, English grammar, and math, and these days also a short handwritten essay test. More details can be found at </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeboard.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.collegeboard.org</a> </p>
<p>and </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.act.org%5B/url%5D”>http://www.act.org</a> </p>
<p>The tests scare a lot of students, but you will do better if you are confident and keep your cool. The tests are timed, so concentrate and keep going during the test, but don’t worry if you run out of time–quite a few test-takers do. </p>
<p>I see your location is CA, and that will make a difference in terms of what kinds of state regulations you deal with as to declaring when you have graduated from high school and for getting into state universities (harder in your state, definitely). </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>To reply on ur comment about the whole “what does your high school have to do with what year u graduate” … i am in a program called “independent studies” it is basically like homeschool, except i see a teacher every week so we can go over my work because no one in my family is educated enough to teach me. So the program is through the high school that i am supposed to go to. I am supposed to be the class of 2006, but since i have been finishing all of my classes, the school decided to move me on to the graduating class of 2005. Regarding the SAT’s, someone told me that i DIDNT have to take them to get in to soe colleges… is this true?</p>
<p>Samantha,</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that most top colleges/universities require applicants to take the SAT/ACT, but here is a list of schools that do not require them.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.fairtest.org/optinit.htm[/url]”>http://www.fairtest.org/optinit.htm</a></p>
<p>Sorry I didn’t realize that even some of these school require that you take the test, but they just “deemphasize the use of standardized tests by making admissions decisions…”</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone that has been helping me, and giving me advice, i really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Whatever happened to Ishmael?Anyone?</p>
<p>Hey, maybe Ishmael was lying. All the world isn’t honest and good. If you just look at what he wrote, we can’t really tell if he has been schooled or not. All there he wrote is " ‘homeschooled’. " Does that mean living in the library is his education? I don’t know if he actually looked at pton’s essay topics, but only one of his supposed essays fits a one of the topics. Plus, I wonder where he got the $ to take all those tests and apply to those colleges, since I thought you had to get a waiver form from a counselor…</p>
<p>“I can’t afford/high schools around here don’t provide their students with APs so scheduling conflicts too”
-Can you clarify this a bit? scheduling conflicts? with other classes? didn’t you say that you’ve spent most of you life at the public library?
-Wow, 800s in Spanish and French are pretty impressive. How did you do that w/o taking classes? Just by reading? The public library in your “horrible area of California” must be pretty wealthy and well-equipped then.</p>
<p>I learned German on my own from an old library book…not that hard…</p>
<p>Yeah you can easily teach yourself a language if you absolutely want to without much expense.</p>