<p>ArtsyGal: Have you really never done anything just for fun?</p>
<p>I never said that wouldn’t be fun. By “doing something just for fun” I mean just doing something for the hell of it. I just thought that you might have done something for the sole purpose of having fun or just because you felt like doing it, in some point in your life. Yeah, I do agree finding the cure for cancer would be pretty fun. </p>
<p>And anaychi, sorry I don’t have any witty titles for you, but I think it’s a cool idea. Kind of like making fun of the whole college marketing process. </p>
<p>EDIT: You could even draw some conclusion about how super selective colleges go to a lot of trouble to market themselves to the masses, when the truth is they will select very few of them. Like how lots of colleges do it just to boost their stats.</p>
<p>I was aiming for your second point with the idea of listing the colleges day by day and their repeats. I settled on “Dear _____, we’re interested in you!” A simple play on the college letters themselves. I’ll post the URL when I’m done finalizing the design.</p>
<p>Matriculettered. (Matriculation + lettered) Mail-Dominated Education. Haha I can’t think of anything good.</p>
<p>Edit: @anaychi: I like that.</p>
<p>You’ve got mail?</p>
<p>Here you go, guys! - [Dear</a> _____, we’re interested in you!](<a href=“http://collegemail.■■■■■■■■■■/]Dear”>http://collegemail.■■■■■■■■■■/)</p>
<p>I decided to start with the letters I got yesterday to start the pile small so we can see a genuine buildup over the next few months. Enjoy.</p>
<p>I’ll probably do a “Best Letter of the Week” segment once I find a good letter opener (I want to maintain the stack for photo purposes).</p>
<p>I’m totally posting that on my Facebook for the world to see.</p>
<p>And lol, opening letters. I try and rip open one end of the flap and it tears so I just end up ripping down the side.</p>
<p>Do tell of the responses you get!</p>
<p>I suck at opening letters with anything but a standard letter shearer. I usually end up with a lot ripped, crumpled paper.</p>
<p>@Studious Yes I believe I know Ethan. I’m not very familiar with ISB people. I do remember we called you guys “isb-ians”.</p>
<p>@anaychi: I’m favorite-ing your blog on my phone and computer internet browsers.</p>
<p>Sent from my ADR6350 using CC</p>
<p>Hope you can keep up the blog, anaychi. I’m so bad at keeping up blogs, I made a tumblr then forgot about it after about 3 days.</p>
<p>Not to brag guys, but I am just gonna post the college letters I can remember off the top of my head in response to anaychi. (I have a crate full of booklets and such)</p>
<p>Eckerd
Hampden-Sydney
Michigan State
UNC Chapel Hill
Elon
East Carolina
Drexel
San Diego State
Stanford
Case Western
NC A&T
NC Central
NC State
Campbell
Elizabeth City State
Rice
Lenior Rhyne
Uni of Miami
Emory
Purdue
VCU
Western Carolina
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>I know there are probably many more, but those were the ones that were sitting on top of the crate. I think it is ridiculous for just a sophomore!</p>
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<p>I’ve gotten 12 in total so far… am I slacking? xD Out of curiosity, what are your primary sources for getting so much mail? Most of my letters mention my PSAT score, and some mention my AMC 10 score.</p>
<p>I get letters from my PSAT score and some through the summer program I went to. The only ones I’ve kept info from have been Rice, UChicago, Rensselaer Polytech, Vanderbilt, URochester, Stanford, Washington St. Louis, and Carnegie Mellon. I should probably read all the letters I get but I get lazy and usually just keep the more sciency schools.</p>
<p>Some of them I requested (UNC, Elon, and a few more), some from SAT, some from PSAT, some from PLAN score (that I haven’t received yet), and some from people who pass my name on to their alma mater (my Bio teacher passed my name on to Emory’s admission department).</p>
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<p>i think all of my college letters are from my PSAT scores. </p>
<p>I am also getting a ridiculous amount of college emails everyday. </p>
<p>what AP tests are you guys taking this year???</p>
<p>@chessaholic: Yeah, Ethan was a pretty good friend of mine. And we called you WABbits.</p>
<p>I have no college mail :(. It’s probably because I live in Canada and not the states and couldn’t convince my school to have the PSAT.<br>
APs: chem and Calc BC</p>
<p>I am getting quite a bit of spam from colleges after taking the PSAT (spam since none of them are particularly good). I kind of messed up the PSAT so planning to do better (when it really counts) next year.</p>
<p>As for AP’s this year, I plan to take the AP NSL exam and AP Computer Science A exam.</p>
<p>Yesterday we got forms regarding what courses we’ll be taking next year. I’m kind of having a difficult time deciding. Seeing as i want to take the biology route, i’ll be dedicating myself to the bio/genetics/chem/etc. classes. </p>
<p>However, I wasn’t sure if i should:
- drop spanish (right now in Honors 4 A/B)
- replace spanish with Studio art (I really enjoy art; although this wouldn’t really be a ‘breather’ class either since it’s going to be pretty vigorous, seeing as I’m the sort of person who takes their time/is a bit too much of a perfectionist when it comes to drawing/painting)
- Take neither and replace the space with an additional 2 bio courses (each a semester long)</p>
<p>Too many choices.</p>