<p>I’m confused about what to do regarding this. It’s for next year but my GC is completely new to this since kids don’t often apply to the states. </p>
<p>1) I participated in one major EC last year and qualified for provincials (states) for it but since some personal issues came up, I did not participate as much this year and was not eligible to participate in the qualifying tournament. Should I try to explain the discontinuity in my app or ask my GC to elaborate on the reasons behind less school EC participation in general?</p>
<p>2) Also- in freshman year, I lived in NY and I got some state awards for writing (ESSPA) and business (FBLA)- do you think it would make sense to include them on the CA? I’m still very much interested in entrepreneurship and will probably participate in this “create your own business” thing senior year. I also qualified for nationals in both the categories for FBLA but couldn’t go because it was too expensive.</p>
<p>I haven’t even thought of donating blood… still trying to graduate high school, thank you! But I really don’t want to at the moment.
Do you all already know what your major will be? I really have no idea, which is hard because I need to do things that tie into that as far as ecs.</p>
<p>Vsinclair, you don’t need to know your major, just whatever field you’re interested in. If you like science, do a science-y ec, same for any other field.
If you don’t know what field interests you just do what you love and show passion.</p>
<p>I know I want to go into computer science and some sort of business. My EC’s don’t really reflect that though, except for the business part. I figured I’d spend high school trying new things which I did/am doing. We really don’t have a “computer science club” and I have no incentive to start one. Debate and Student Council, and a few smaller clubs are all I need lol. </p>
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<p>Thanks to Cal Newport, I now hate the word passion.</p>
<p>to whoever was talking about FBLA---- love that group. Running for state parliamentarian this year again, was runner-up for that and state south VP last year >:( So mad that I was close on both</p>
<p>At my school, Spanish is not offered until freshman year, so Spanish 4 is the highest we go. Next year my schedule is messed up. I don’t know what I am going to do!! I completely exhausted my school’s math/science curriculum beginning sophomore year, and so this year mine are online… but now I have exhausted that too.</p>
<p>I already know my major; it’ll be neuroscience!
I feel like my schedule isn’t too tough, and I won’t have that much homework. </p>
<p>Apparently AP Chem is a joke now at my school. We used to have this epic teacher but she’s away in Turkey right now. So now we have a flake. As for AP Econ, nobody at my school complains about it, and nobody worries about it either. For AP Comp Sci, there’s no homework and the only thing that really matters are the tests. For AP 2D art studio, I can finish the work during class. And AP English is apparently a joke at my school too. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what I’ll do for math next year, but I’ll probably have to retake 1st semester of calc and then the course after calc. So probably I’ll do a correspondance or online course. </p>
<p>@ecouter11, you could write about why, but you should also tell your GC to explain why as
well to make it more legit. </p>
<p>@weiscool, maybe you could graduate early, or if you have reasons why you wouldn’t want to go to college early, perhaps you could do a gap year.</p>
<p>I would like to double major in computer science and computer engineering.
And funny story about Spanish… By the end of high school, I will have taken it for 13 years, gotten 6 honors Spanish credits, and 3 AP Spanish credits. Unnecessary? Maybe. But I wouldn’t do anything differently.</p>
<p>Wait… you guys are all 18?
I’m in 11th grade too and I’m 16, and even my friends with the earliest birthdays are 17. Or are there different reqs depending on where you live or something?
I HATE giving blood and needles in general (which could become a problem if I do in fact decide to become a doctor, but I’ll figure that out later…) which means that I’m not entirely sure I’ll be lining up to donate blood when I’m old enough (though I’ll definitely be feeling very guilty about not doing it). Then again, it also comes up at the doctor’s, and I’m NOT really looking forward to my upcoming rheumatologist appointment because I hate when they do bloodwork. Imagining that two vials multiplied by ten is a pretty (mentally) nauseating image to me…</p>
<p>I am definitely going to be an english major, maybe double major in business admin too. My school has up to spanish 3 and an option to take an online dual credit class. I’m only sixteen too and I will be seventeen my first semester of college.</p>
<p>I’m (only) sixteen too… My birthday’s in the summer so I’ll be 18 right before entering college. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if I’m going to minor in something. The problem is, I have many side interests… That’s why I want to go to U Rochester, although it may not be possible. </p>
<p>Hannahbanana, if you became a neurologist, dermatologist, anesthetist, radiologist, etc. then you only have to deal with blood in like the first year of med school. and then never again.</p>
<p>I’m 16 too! I can donate blood at my schools theater blood drive next October at 16 (I’ll still be 16). I missed the birthday cutoff by a week this year.</p>
<p>@quidditchcat - a large portion of my old HS’s graduating class attends U of R. I also have worked there, so if you have any questions or whatever, feel free to ask U of R has great research going on and the campus is quite pretty. The open curriculum is also quite nice.</p>
<p>I want to major in Neuroscience or Microbiology/Immunology (not offered in many places) or MCB. I also want to try an economics minor/double major if possible.</p>
<p>I’m 16. This year I will probably be heading one of the blood drives at our school… so I will have to donate blood, but I don’t mind needles or blood. Surgeon or dermatology for me (both very hard fields to break into) and probably majoring in chemistry or biochemistry. It runs in my family, chemistry does, as does medicine.</p>
<p>^^U of Rochester has Eastman school of music, right? I know a little too much about music schools, due to some of my teachers and my music-y friends, considering I don’t want to go into music…</p>
<p>At our city’s blood banks, you can donate blood when 14 with parental signature, but 16 without. We just got one that pays you money for your donation, so I guess that’s what some people are starting to do… Funny story, one time in China in like the 70’s my grandpa and my mom were watching a movie and over the loud speaker they announced that they needed somebody with O blood to donate to a dying person in the theater who had apparently hurt themselves, so my grandpa volunteered himself and claims that, 40 years later, he still feels weak and tired from that one time… LOL</p>
<p>I’m 16, and will also become 18 the summer before college. Woot!
I’m into business, political science (kinda not really after this past congress LOL), and environmental science. Kinda all over the place!
That’s why I have currently been looking at liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>I wish I could donate blood. Past years i was to young. Apparently you can just lie though, never thought of that haha. But I realized I can’t anyways because of track. It’s like the biggest rule of track: No donating blood. (Our big blood drive is during the 2nd week of training which is by far the most important week of the season)</p>
U of R has great research going on and the campus is quite pretty. The open curriculum is also quite nice.</p>
I know a little too much about music schools, due to some of my teachers and my music-y friends, considering I don’t want to go into music…</p>