<p>@Penguinone One little mistake, who cares?</p>
<p>One little mistake, who cares?
^ Well it’s the name. If it was a typo in spelling or something, that would be alright but it seems unwise to get a school’s name wrong if its one of your top choices and you mention that on the app.</p>
<p>I was going to apply to UPenn but I’m too lazy to write the supplement. I may or may not apply to Rice for the same reason hehe. I think my favorite common app supplements are those of MIT and Stanford. XD</p>
<p>Penguin, I don’t think Caltech would appreciate your infidelity with Johnz Hopkins.</p>
<p>@gomdorri Questbridge is a non-profit program that links high-achieving low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at leading U.S. colleges and universities. QuestBridge provides the College Prep Scholarship for high school juniors and the National College Match program for high school seniors. The National College Match program is like the NRMP medical residency match for four year medical students, but it only has 31 colleges to choose from, you can only list 8 colleges you want to go to, and depending on which colleges you get accepted from on your list and how high they are ranked, you are legally bound to go into that college. I read somewhere that you could skip that and just apply to the scholarship in senior year.</p>
<p>Also I want to apply to is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth University, Brown PLME/Undergrad, Northwestern HPME/Undergrad, Emory University, Vanderbilt University, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, and Valdosta University. This is probably going to greatly changed by senior year.</p>
<p>Is it true that Stanford disregards your Freshman year GPA? Also, has anyone taken the SAT yet?</p>
<p>JROTC II
Honors French 3
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra 2
AP Eng 3
AP Psychology
APUSH</p>
<p>I play varsity tennis too(:</p>
<p>Was that your (already completed) sophomore schedule or is that going to be your new junior schedule?</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 7th grade for Duke Scholar thing, I will be taking it again in October.</p>
<p>My schedule:
IB US History
IB Math
IB Biology
Pre-AP Physics(No AP and required to graduate)
IB Psychology
IB Spanish 3
IB English
IB TOK
Band</p>
<p>Is it true that Stanford disregards your Freshman year GPA? Also, has anyone taken the SAT yet?
^ Yes. </p>
<p>And no. I’m taking it in either October or November. I don’t want to take it later because all-state band is in January (if I take the SAT during the same month, I’ll get an 1800 because I am HORRIBLE at switching gears and thinking about more than one thing at once), I have to study for school exams (instead of semesters, we have trimesters so I have three sets of final exams throughout the year… so definitely can’t take the SAT around those times), and my APs and SAT IIs span from May to June. Most definitely can’t take it then.</p>
<p>That, and one of my friends is a senior and is planning to take the SAT in either October or November and I don’t want to be lonely. :(</p>
<p>My sophomore schedule was pathetic. I only had one AP class and slept/doodled through it roflrofl.</p>
<p>Junior schedule is (almost) easy as well, excluding AP english lang, which may steal my 4.0 GPA. </p>
<p>AP English lang
AP calc BC
APUSH
Spanish III
Theology
Band (It’s a class AND an EC… so it brings down my GPA and has deprived me of any last chances I have to be valedictorian or salutatorian)
Honors Chem</p>
<p>-^- You’re probably wondering why I have so few classes. It’s because my school’s trimester system is designed to benefit people who fail classes, and the system doesn’t really like AP students I guess. When we had a block system, you could take 8 classes in a semester. However, now that we have a trimester system, we can only take five (and band. If you want to take band, you have to come here an hour and a half before school even opens). AP classes last all three trimesters, and regular classes only last two. 98%+ of my school only takes regular classes, and so yeah. If they only have to take English for two trimesters, then if they fail one grading period or want to take “fun electives”, then they’ll have enough flexibility in their schedule to retake a class/whatever. That, plus we’re required to take theology and an elective every year and so it’s impossible to take more than 3 APs at my school in one year.</p>
<p>Since my school has pretty mediocre academics, I’m planning to self-study 8 APs and I’ll use the time I have during my easy classes to study for those APs. xD</p>
<p>HAHAHA self-studying 8 APs
Ohhhh good one you almost had me going there</p>
<h1>desperation</h1>
<p>^ Self-studying 8 APs is what you do when you are bored to death with your life and want to be masochistic lol.</p>
<p>I’m going for State scholar and Siemens just for the fun of it.</p>
<p>For me, trying to self study one AP is bad. Studying eight would make me be admitted to the pysch ward.</p>
<p>My high school is switching from a trimester system to a block/semester system. So this year it will be:</p>
<p>A DAY (1st Sem):<br>
P1<br>
P2<br>
P3<br>
P4</p>
<p>B DAY (1st Sem):
P5<br>
P6
P7
P8</p>
<p>And since all AP classes offered are two semester classes, I will have:</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB
AP Spanish
AP Biology
AP Junior English</p>
<p>YEAR ROUND. I’m taking normal US history instead of AP Euro which is what a lot of kids are taking. I WOULD take that 5th AP, but I have football and track, so . . . Also, I have two free periods 1st semester and 1 free period 2nd semester dedicated solely to homework since football and track can go pretty late. Does that seem excessive? </p>
<p>And what college is everyone aiming to attend after high school? For me, it’s Stanford and I’m the only legacy in my class at my high school so that will be a plus.</p>
<p>Some of the AP exams I’m taking are fun subjects though, so motivating myself to study those shouldn’t be a problem. I will also have study groups for chem with my friend, so yeah.</p>
<p>I guess selfing 8 will be like selfing 3 since I won’t really be doing it on my own…</p>
<p>@gomdorri Where are you aiming to go to college?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say having free periods are excessive. At my school, we don’t get free periods. Teachers can only decide if they want their class to not do anything for the day and this usually only happens when its the end of each semester and when they have to put in grades within a day our two.</p>
<p>Competitive Private School, 1930 on 1st SAT, Varsity Lacrosse as Frosh and Soph. for top 50 team in Country, 200 hrs. Volunteer work so far (A project we do required to graduate gives me another 100 hrs.), Apart of Model UN, Sports Debate, SADD, Spanish, and Spirit Clubs (looking at leadership positions in 2-3, and possibly joining 1-2 more clubs), 3.7 UW Cumulative GPA</p>
<p>Next Year’s Schedule (Junior Year): (Our school only has 4 AP’s for sophmores, 2 during the same period (CS A and Spanish, but I chose Spanish), Chemistry and APUSH, but our USH teacher is not very good, and I am SS the class alongside my Honors course of it.)
AP Chemistry
Honors USH 2
Christian Morality (Religion is required every year, there is no honors)
Honors World Literature
AP Spanish Language
Honors Physics
Honors Pre-Calculus</p>
<p>I would also like to get National AP Scholar this year, but unfortunately I haven’t taken any AP’s previously (not allowed prior to junior year in my school, ughhh) , so I will be self studying AP USH, Psych, Environ Sci, Human Geo, US Gov, and Comp Gov. It will be very tough and if I get below a 4 on ANY of those, I am out of the running 
I would just like it to go on my app so I have to take all of them this year.</p>
<p>The only class I’ll probably have to pay attention in is AP English lang, because the teacher is amazing and I’m awful at English… and really need all of the help I can get. u___u</p>
<p>@gomdorri Where are you aiming to go to college?
^ Reach schools are Stanford, MIT and Harvard (applying to Stanford EA)
Also probably applying to Rice, JHU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UMN and UNC.</p>
<p>As a safety school just going to apply to my state college. My counselor said that they give full scholarships to people who get 1900s on the SAT LOLOL.</p>
<p>@mschusler28 Someone said on here that those titles of AP Scholar awards are not very important to colleges, well maybe mainly to the top colleges in America since many people who apply there have those titles on their application. </p>
<p>Also, I want to apply to is Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Brown PLME/Undergrad, Northwestern HPME/Undergrad, Emory University, University Of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, and Valdosta University. This is probably going to greatly changed by senior year.</p>
<p>I don’t think AP scholar awards even matter haha. Especially for top schools, since most of the people who apply to them have taken 5+ APs throughout high school anyway.</p>
<p>I thought I wanted to be a neuroscience major, but I’m not sure anymore. I might decide to major in biology… idk.</p>
<p>During the summer between 5th and 7th grade, I decided that I was obsessed with Princeton because of its website LOL. I didn’t even know much about the school but I liked it because I looked at the common app supplement and wanted to spend 5 hours answering those favorite _____ questions. xDD</p>
<p>/shot’d</p>
<p>Princeton’s campus is amazing though. My sister wants to go there just so that she can admire the campus daily LOL.</p>