<p>Yes!!! I have UC Berkeley, UCLA, UMich, U. of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, and USC. I’m from Illinois btw. I know I have a lot of schools in Cali but I want to go to school there so bad. Especially Berkeley. I’m scared I might not get in, so I’m working extra hard this school year. UMich, UCLA, and U of Illinois will be easiest to get in, in my opinion.</p>
<p>If I become a Questbridge Scholar, I know I’ll also apply to Princeton, Brown, Stanford, and USC. With or without Questbridge, I’ll still apply to Yale and University of Penn.</p>
<p>Well, I did poorly by my standards this first term of the year. 3.77 GPA (had above 4.0 last two years) even though I got all As on my exams. I need to step up my game.</p>
<p>Anyone know any good productivity software type stuff?</p>
<p>there’s this </p>
<p><a href=“https://www.beeminder.com/overview[/url]”>https://www.beeminder.com/overview</a></p>
<p>i haven’t tried it. some people like it.</p>
<p>I started another class of 2014 thread just a minute ago… feel stupid now that I see this.</p>
<p>My schedule:</p>
<p>APE3
Physics
AP Calc AB
Journalism
AP US History
Robotics
Symphonic Band
Spanish 3</p>
<p>My passions are history, polisci, and economics. My life revolves around them, and combining economics, business, and government. I am a junior in HS</p>
<p>Played Clarinet with HS Symphonic band since 8th grade, been to several regional bands
Cofounder and Vice President of Model UN: have been recognized/awarded in each conference, other high school politicians are no match for real political strategy.
Invited to Academy of Political Science, a think tank where membership is normally for graduate students and professors
Invited to Commonwealth Club of California, nation’s oldest public forum
Offered internship to Wall Street Journal by its CEO (I got interviewed, at this time they are “still looking for a place for me”)
Work closely with Mayor of my town, advising on economic and political strategy
Have relationship with local libertarian think-tank and economics publisher- Independent Institute
Have a relationship with the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Submitting project to ISEF-affiliatied fair: Using Differential Calculus to Predict World Petroleum production; with economist mentors from the Federal Reserve
Business manager of school newspaper
Columnist for school newspaper
Experienced in generating profits with stock market (maybe I can increase Yale’s endowment? )
And if it means anything, i am a book collector, with 300 books dedicated to my passion.</p>
<p>I have a 3.88 WGPA at the moment. If I get disregarded for that, then to hell with them.</p>
<p>I got my report card for first quarter, a little lower then I am happy with, but at least my two Bs are quarter grades so hopefully I can pull them up to an A by the end of the semester…
AP/Honors English - 101
AP/Honors U.S. History - 94
Honors Physics - 95
Honors Elementary Functions - 87
Gym - 88 (fairly sure the teacher made a mistake/need to talk with them but they have not been in school since we got out report cards)
Yearbook - 100
Sculpture 3 - 100
Ceramics 3 - 93</p>
<p>Oh and my Hebrew 4 teacher says I have an A (we only get final grades in the class), hopefully that stays…</p>
<p>@Ractogon - I think you should be fine. What school are you aiming for exactly?</p>
<p>@ArtsyGirl13 - Get those straight As, you’re doing well.</p>
<p>For me, I’ve been doing fine in most classes. These grades are as of the end of the 1st quarter.</p>
<p>Advanced Music Honors - 100.00%
AP US History - 105.60% (apparently, the summer assignment quiz was extra credit)
AP Biology - 94.48%
AP Music Theory - 100.00%
Pre-Calculus Honors - 96.50%
AP Spanish Language - 91.93% (borderline, since 92% is an A in the teacher’s book)
AP English Language - 90.20% (borderline)
Marching Band PE - 100.00%</p>
<p>I hate English, lol.</p>
<p>My dream school is Yale. My Weighted GPA however and grades are somewhat in the lower bracket. I am praying that my dedication to economics, polisci, and history will make the adcom think twice. I took a practice SAT August of freshman year, got 1740. So when I take a real SAT now, I hopefully get it up there.</p>
<p>You do have better grades than me. What is your dream school?</p>
<p>Mine is UCLA.</p>
<p>I’ll probably take the SAT in March. I got a 205 on my PSAT sophomore year. I took it again for scholarship, though I don’t like the odds, since 225 is needed in California to qualify.</p>
<p>Right now, I’m sort of dedicated to music. I only took AP Music Theory because I had some knowledge in music. Marching Band PE and Advanced Music Honors were concurrent courses, so I’m forced to do a 0-7 period schedule.</p>
<p>I wish you best of luck with UCLA.
Music is a great career choice, if you want to pursue it further. My high school band is the only thing I do with it; I will not be doing regional band this year because I want to put my time in at the Federal Reserve. But whoever can create music, and major in it, has a beautiful mind. I failed the only music theory test I ever took, and I failed it miserably.</p>
<p>Congrats on the 205! My sophomore year I got a 156, so basically it was a mess. Hopefully I will get a 200 this year (I find out in a few weeks), and then I am taking the ACT at the beginning of December and the SAT at the end of January. My dream school is Swarthmore, but my stats are a little low (as of right now 3.85 uw and 13 of 125), so we will see…</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone in class of 2014!</p>
<p>@ryidol, ur in cali too? hahaha well i guess cali is big :D</p>
<p>My dream school is UCSD, and I’m the most interested in the cognitive science with specialization in neuroscience major. However, I doubt I will get in since my grades are so F-ing bad right now. T_T
Granted, only in one subject but STILL.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s my depression flaring up without me knowing it, or maybe I have just gotten stupid. I feel like every year I get more stupid.</p>
<p>The only good thing is that I’m a Siemens semifinalist and I can get a 33 on the ACT (at least back in 8th grade. I will be worried if I got worse…). My SAT on the other hand is not that good… 2150. I got 800 in writing but who cares, they know it’s the easiest part. My GPA sucks… up to this year I had a trending upward gpa but due to my asdfadakjafj situation in Calc, that is going to change. It is currently 3.5 UW, 4.1 UC GPA, and 3.9 W.</p>
<p>I’m also considering Pomona as a dream school for the neuroscience program but it’s more selective. ugh</p>
<p>Is anybody here planning on going to prom?
I’m not.</p>
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<p>haha, I’d only go if
- there is DEFINITELY AC (last year, there was no AC and it was like 85 degrees in there from what I heard. that’s disgusting)
- my friends are going
- i can actually find something comfortable to wear
- someone asks me to prom</p>
<p>otherwise, I’ll just do something with friends for our “own prom”</p>
<p>My dream schools are Berkeley, UIUC, and UMich. Acceptance into at least one, would make me very happy!</p>
<p>^ those are great schools. good luck! UCB and UMich are very demanding of their applicants.</p>
<p>Thanks Ractogon!</p>
<p>Not sure if I am going to prom this year, leaning towards no due to my hatred of dancing, uncomfortable shoes and the large portion of my grade that is unnecessarily loud… I will probably go next year though…</p>
<p>We probably won’t even have a junior prom because the class of 2013 ruined our chances. Nobody went to the junior prom last year and so I doubt my school will try it again for us. The seniors ruined a lot of activities for us. Smh</p>