<p>Salutations!</p>
<p>I am currently in 7th grade and I want to attend a prestigious university. I will be applying to Thomas Jefferson and other amazing secondary schools in Northern Virginia. I want to attend UPenn for engineering or business. What are somethings I can do throughout high school to make my dream a reality? (Classes, summer programs research opportunities etc.)</p>
<p>Study and work hard.</p>
<p>Pursue your passions in interesting ways and don’t worry about college. It’s paradoxical but the more you focus on personal interests the more likely you are to be admitted to prestigious college.</p>
<p>Be smart and influential. But you mostly can’t control that.</p>
<p>Ideally you should solve one of the six remaining millennium problems before your senior year in high school. P/NP is probably the easiest one to understand, so you can learn that in a few weeks. And there’s some cool stuff people are doing with algebraic geometry to approach it, which is fairly trivial to learn since AG mostly involves solving systems of equations and interpreting them, so consider learning that at some point next year. </p>
<p>Oh and as a bonus you’ll also win a million dollars.</p>
<p>yea ok that aside,
nothing personal but I doubt you really know what you want to do in 7th grade. just try new things, keep an open mind about the possibilities out there, see what interests you and try to find more opportunities in those areas. </p>
<p>engineering and business are quite different areas (and both are also vast fields themselves), so what exactly is it that attracts you to both of them?</p>
<p>Just don’t spend a significant portion of your life playing video games, and do something. Obviously get the highest numbers, but also figure out who you are and do things related to you.</p>
<p>^Getting off College Confidential until at least high school is a good way to start.</p>
<p>^^nothing wrong with playing video games, as long as you don’t play ■■■■■■■■ ones. upenn needs more people good at starcraft; our csl team is sooo bad.</p>
<p>so yea, go to s. korea and do an internship with a progaming team. certainly a good experience to write about in your college essay.</p>
<p>Get of CC and pursue what you love. :)</p>
<p>^^ According to [Schools</a> by ELO | Collegiate StarLeague](<a href=“Playfly Esports”>Playfly Esports) Penn’s CSL team is tied for dead last with an 0-17 record. Please take up starcraft OP, for Penn’s sake.</p>
<p>yeah dude, I agree with pretty much everybody who has posted here.</p>
<p>Get off CC, go try to get your first kiss and all those other things that middle schoolers should be worried about. Don’t worry about college for a long long time.</p>
<p>everyone here is right. have fun, do the things you want to do because they interest you! wait until h.s. before you start planning for college. it will not be easy, but enjoy your childhood while you can.</p>
<p>You’re a ■■■■■, I highly doubt your a 7th grader who is so serious about admission into these schools.</p>
<p>^^^Hang around CC some more and you’ll see plenty of kids like him. Especially in the fall when seniors are applying, and younger students start fantasizing of the day when they’ll finally get their chance to play slots with schools like Penn</p>
<p>But definitely not a ■■■■■ (at least by CC standards). I’m just glad he didn’t lay out a comprehensive 5 year plan and ask us to chime in on whether ending world hunger, interning at Paulson and Co, or joining the soccer team would improve his chances at Wharton</p>
<p>God, you’re going to die of stress by the time you’re 16. I started full-on freaking out about college at the end of tenth grade, and by the time I got in two years later I was ready to get the hell out of the whole process. Go make some mildly dumb decisions and come back in a couple years.</p>