<p>Ey, I mean, chance threads provide you with someone else’s perspective on how you’re doing. They definitely don’t always boost your esteem.</p>
<p>PSAT scores- 68 CR/61 M (up from 54 last year)/75 W/204 total- in other words nothing special, but better than the 179 I got last year.</p>
<p>Chance threads have the potential to be really helpful. Unfortunately they aren’t use correctly in my opinion. When I visit them, I don’t chance them, I more so give them my perspective of them as an outsider. Just like an admissions officer does. Not trying to say I am one, obviously I’m not. Telling someone what you think about them from an admissions standpoint I believe is more helpful than just saying match, reach, and then inserting my own chance thread link.</p>
<p>hello friends. nice to meet you. just joining this thang</p>
<p>Welcome to the thread, gardenia :)</p>
<p>Still don’t have my PSAT scores. Probably going to get them on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Midterms are looming. Jan. 22(?)-25, I think. I’m scared for Chem because I’m pretty much going to have to re-teach myself the first 11 chapters or so (I only just recently figured out what I need to do to succeed in that class), and then I’ve been slacking off in USH, so I’m going to have to re-read 100s of pages :l. The midterm average last year for USH was ~74, and my teacher is constantly telling us how they were such a better class in terms of academics (as well as personalities), which I definitely can’t disagree with.</p>
<p>But, on the plus side, I saw Three Days Grace again last night, and they were amazing (although less amazing than the previous two times I’d seen them; maybe it’s because I’ve grown up a little in the past few years, so my angst level has gone down to almost nothing).</p>
<p>LOL my semester finals start tomorrow with AP Chemistry, which I estimate will take a minimum of 2 hours, if not 4. WONDERFUL. Good thing it is an online class so I can take as much time as I can afford to take with my schedule :D</p>
<p>Our final test before break is in AP Biology… I have a 92 in the class so I really have to do my best. I almost got an 90 in AP Chemistry, I’m at an 88 now and we just took a test. So it’s probably going to go down to a 86 or something. It’s only midterms, but I really want an A in that class.</p>
<p>I have B’s in USH & English. Essays always bring down my grade because I get 5’s/6’s (55%, 67%) in USH because I never finish them within the allotted time, and I have 2 DBQs this week and 1 FRQ on chapters I know basically nothing about. So I’m probably going to get a C in USH this quarter (but hopefully not). Tomorrow I have a quiz in L&C on the memoir Angela’s Ashes, but I haven’t taken a book quiz in that class yet, and she wouldn’t even tell us the format (“run-of-the-mill book quiz”).</p>
<p>On the plus side, I have A-'s in PreCalc & Chem. Still kind of upset it took me 1.5 quarters to get an A on a chem test, but I guess that’s why it’s AP and not honors. My PreCalc grade might actually go up to a regular A because I (somehow) knew what I was doing on the test we took last class.</p>
<p>@WeIsCool Where do you take your online courses?</p>
<p>Exams the week after break. Wonderful.</p>
<p>Information retention rate = zero.</p>
<p>My exams are also right after break. Well not right after, we have a week then exams</p>
<p>Overslept this morning. Grr. Well, I’ve already missed APUSH, might as well just stay home and do homework. What a life.</p>
<p>@HStr96: There’s no life without APUSH xD</p>
<p>202 PSAT gompoalfja.
Maybe I’ll qualify for National Black Achievement or w.e</p>
<p>@biovball, I take it through my state’s online high school. I live in the Midwest and my state is very rural, and many schools don’t have the resources or enough students to have anything beyond the basic classes (sometimes not even that, sad to say) or students are homeschooled and live on a farm far away from everything… so my state has an online high school with AP classes and stuff. That’s where I take mine, but not sure if every state has it</p>
<p>And it would suck to have exams right after break. We have ours before break so we can relax and do nothing during break</p>
<p>I have a honors pre-calc test tomorrow, a honors physics tests the day after that and an a honors English test Thursday. Oh how I hate the week before break, and then I have a scholarship application, three essays and studying for midterms to do over the break (we have midterms like two weeks after we get back from break). Oh well, at least I start my duel-enrollment class soon. How are you guys?</p>
<p>I have EVERYTHING Thursday. 2 day History test Wednesday and Thursday, Film project due but my groups turning it in late. Math quiz, probably French hw, AP Chem test Friday that I have to take Thursday, Film questions due Friday that I have to turn in Thursday.</p>
<p>On another note, do any of you know what you’re doing this summer?
I’m applying to work at the JCC (Jewish Comm. Center) as a counselor, and applying for an internship at NIH</p>
<p>My school announced that they would be mailing out PSAT scores “sometime soon.” </p>
<p>I think they mean before winter break, because apparently there’s a junior class meeting going over the PSAT, what it means, etc. during winter break.</p>
<p>But who knows, my school has had problems with “stress” aka a bunch of people committed suicide one year. I’m sure they don’t want to be known as suicide school as they kind of already are known. Since finals are this week, perhaps they don’t want to stress us out. Which is really stupid. I think more kids are stressing out over NOT getting their PSAT scores than what they actually got. </p>
<p>As for finals, mine start on Wednesday. <em>I used to have finals AFTER winter break and then they changed it this year.</em> I have AP Stat, then English Honors (don’t have to show up to class. Yay!) on Wednesday. Then I have Calc and AP Bio on Thursday. On Friday I have History (Don’t have to show up) and AP Physics C. I also have AP Japanese but I’m doing the presentation tomorrow instead.
I’m actually only worried about Calc and AP Physics C. The rest I can pretty much do what I’ve been doing the past semester and still have good grades…</p>
<p>For summer, I’m applying to about 20 different research programs because I think I basically have 0 chance at most of them. Sorry if you don’t like pessimism, I call it realism . No use pretending to have stats you do not have. If I don’t get in to any of them, then bummer, but I’ll try to do research on my own as I did this past summer. Also hopefully I can get started on college apps. XD
Stocked up on the common app prompts…</p>
<p>Haha, sorry for the long post, but I doubt anyone ever reads mine. If I come off as a pessimistic loser fishing for compliments, I’m seriously sorry. That is not my intention and only sometimes how I act in real life.</p>
<p>I am applying for several summer research programs as well, hopefully I will get into one, but they are so competitive, so we will see… If I don’t get in it looks like I will be doing a paid internship at an organization I volunteer at.</p>
<p>I plan on taking Calculus at UChicago over the summer.</p>