High School Class of 2014

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<p>FollowTheReaper: I think I have a good relationship with my counselor. She understands that I and my friends are smart and that we’re not the same (academically or personality-wise) as many of her other students. She’s a great counselor on the whole. We can seek out our counselor’s advice, but they don’t require us to go and talk to them (except once in Junior year for like half an hour) – if you actively go and talk to them then they can be a great help. My counselor was the one who let me test out of first-year chemistry and instead take AP chemistry, and she’s always had answers to my questions.</p>

<p>I think it just depends on how you personally get to know your counselor – you can seek out their advice or just go without it.</p>

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<p>My counselor is pretty nice. My school is a bit “quirky”, if you will, so he’s used to deal with all kinds of people and has given me some pretty good advice. </p>

<p>He wrote a rec letter for me once also and I got in, so that was good too :slight_smile: </p>

<p>It’s a small school though and he’s kind of busy so I don’t see him often.</p>

4584

<p>Well my counselor told me to discuss it with my family and I rarely see my counselor as well. She’s always busy so whenever I get a chance I try to say hi at least. I know it will be important for me to get a good relationship with her going for next year. But I just got elected president so I think I will be seeing her a lot now :slight_smile: I think I’ll take the ACT in the spring as well. </p>

<p>Sent from my MB525 using CC</p>

4585

<p>Congrats! :slight_smile: ^</p>

<p>Honestly, depending on who you are and what you read and how you think and if you remember to like eat breakfast and sleep more than 4 hours before the test :wink: (I did this), you can probably pull a 2200+. You will need to be pretty intense about your prep, though, and I don’t recommend waiting till 2 weeks before, like I did. </p>

<p>IMO, if you get all the grammar down, get all the math down, memorize all the words in DH 1 and 2 (as an aside- they have way more than 430 and throw in other ones too) and do at least 5 practice tests, you can probably do quite well. Reading books helps too.</p>

4586

<p>My counselor is the best. I talk to her like everyday to discuss college plans:):):). She is one of my biggest supporters :):):)</p>

<p>Random// the walking dead only few days away!!</p>

4587

<p>My counselor and I joke every day. I always get to school early and sit in the same chair waiting on the Calc teacher and he’s started calling it my office. In other news, I. Want. My. SAT. Scores. NOW!</p>

4588

<p>I wasn’t expecting the SAT to be so easy… Then again, I could be kidding myself.</p>

4589

<p>Wait was it really hard (the SATs)?</p>

<p>Taking mine in the Spring</p>

4590

<p>The real SAT was a good bit easier than many of the practice tests I’ve taken. But I’m not complaining. ;)</p>

4591

<p>I’m taking it in November (the SAT), but in November I’m preparing a little but it’s going to be mostly cold to see how I do.</p>

4592

<p>I’m taking the for the first time SAT in the Spring.</p>

<p>Will take Math 2 in Nov though.</p>

4593

<p>@Studious: Exactly… I actually left only 3/4 math questions blank instead of my usual 6ish, haha. </p>

<p>I’m taking it again in June, (3 AP study halls after May will give me plenty of time for last minute prep) and then I’ll be done. :)</p>

4594

<p>I’m nervous about it, I need high scores that I’m not sure I can get.</p>

4595

<p>I just realized that after Homecoming on the 13th, I have several tests/quizzes on that following Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday is the PSAT, and on Friday there is no school. The tests include:</p>

<p>9-weeks test for Pre-AP Precalculus
9-weeks test for AP Statistics
9-weeks test for AP Psychology
9-weeks test for AP Biology
Unit 2 test for AP Biology(writing only, no multiple choice)
Quiz for AP U.S. History</p>

<p>AND on top of that, I will have whatever else 5 AP classes have in mind for homework. Oh well, I went last year, and I still have next year. Might as well not go this year. XD</p>

4596

<p>@ATP: Why, what colleges are you looking at/scores are you aiming for?</p>

<p>@SteelTrap: I’m not going this year. Last year was okay, although 5 of my friends would surround & grind on me collectively every 20 minutes because I wouldn’t do it willingly <___<. One of those friends told me that she’s looking forward to trying out her new daggering skills on me this year, SOOO.</p>

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<p>Well I can get the scores but I really need these to look good for recruiting means. I’'m aiming for MIT, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, Caltech so I want around a 2300.</p>

<p>For recruiting means though I need about a 2100 first time to make a good impression</p>

4598

<p>I have a big history test on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and my grades are so bad right now. But my math grade is going up (finally) because I got an 100 on a quiz! And now I’m passing English!</p>

4599

<p>Good luck, superstar :)</p>

4600

<p>So the first quarter ended on Friday, looks like I have an A+ in APUSH and AP Psych, an A in AP Lang, a B+ in Precalc which I can bring up, and a C+ in AP Physics which I really don’t know what to do with…</p>

4601

<p>I wish my school was on a quarter system. My grades right now would make me very happy to be permanent.</p>