<p>My physics teacher is new and she was such a mess last semester so I still got an A but I can’t name all of Newtons laws even if I tried.</p>
<p>I am taking it online/distance learning since we don’t have a teacher for it. That pretty much means I have to teach it to myself using textbook and online slideshows. It’s not hard, it’s just a lot of work and a lot of time.</p>
<p>My school does all number grades when it comes to the report card, but on your transcript we have weighted and averages, but we don’t do the 4.0 GPA scale as far as AP and honors goes there’s a teacher recommendation, but you can override it if you want to be in AP.</p>
<p>Just checked my grades, in precalculus I’m down a 64.325%, AP Chemistry, a 77% in AP Biology a 88% and in English 11 a 100% lol. I freaking love junior year~!</p>
<p>Note to self: NEVER AGAIN have people over right before a blizzard is about to hit. Seriously, all I want is time to myself and to get my homework done before tomorrow. That’s all. I. want.</p>
<p>hahah lldm21 did you not have school friday either? I live right on the coast so I’m still hoping school will be cancelled on Monday</p>
<p>I live toward the center-NE part of CT, and school got cancelled, but it didn’t even start snowing until 4 xD.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’ll have school Monday… I’ve heard that the roads are pretty bad, but most of us have power and there isn’t much damage.</p>
<p>Hey guys. </p>
<p>I just decided I’d join you because I have started to feel self-concious about the fact the I only participate in the parents’ section. </p>
<p>I’m Sophie, from Germany, and I want to attend a college in the US 
So far, I have a list of 34 potentials and I am anxiously awaiting my SAT scores to come out. Moreover, I am not an ivy-bound person. As my mom and we were discussing my future today, I realized that I totally need the non-competitive LAC experience, with people knowing me and supporting me, offering me great opportunities to grow. I absolutely love my high school, there are 130 people in my grade which I consider a good size. Right now the CTCL seem to be high up on the list, as are the “typical” top LACs. Those might be too reachy though as I didn’t cheat on my SATs and therefore will have a lowish CR and possibly Writing score, my math is bad anyway because I am way more language-y. </p>
<p>So good evening to all of you (it’s 11 at night here :)) and I shall get to you know I guess. </p>
<p>Lots of love!</p>
<p>34?! That’s a lot…
That’s cool that you’re in Germany. My sister is actually there on a study abroad from Stanford. Unfortunately I’m not as smart as her so I won’t be getting into any Ivys or similar level schools. </p>
<p>I am also looking at LACs that are more supportive (plus may offer more research opportunities, which are important to me!) but out of the CTCL, I only really like Agnes Scott. </p>
<p>Yeah, I’m joining in after a while of staying silent while everyone was arguing over weird semantics of grading systems. hehe :)</p>
<p>Looks like you speak good English (or atleast write it well or ofcouse just used google translate) so that’s a good start. Maybe narrowing down that list of 34 to like 10 would be the next. GL</p>
<p>Haha, that’s what I am currently attempting to tackle 
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<p>I bought Fiske’s and spend like2 hours a day researching schools.
It is really hard as an international though because I cannot predict where I’ll get in. We are not poor, but we cannot pay 60.000 a year out of pocket. I am a very good student, bust my test scores will be mediocre, and as we don’t have an “involvement” culture around here I barely have any ECs, let alone leadership opportunities. (People around here ridicule you if you say you are in a club in school - there are only two kinds at mine, tutoring and getting tutored.). I don’t party and want to go to a college that is outstandingly intellectual. Discussing-Dante-over-lunch-like, really political and “let’s save the world one person at a time”-like but I have to get accepted and get a scholarship, and I suppose most colleges won’t see any value in accepting me. </p>
<p>Study abroad is awesome! Do you know where exactly she is?</p>
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<p>Thank you! </p>
<p>I have already attempted a lot of those. The schools that are above a 90% match are those 33 (threw Wake Forest out) that I have now </p>
<p>I’m reading myriad review and visit reports to decide on a “feel”, because right now I have Furman to Oberlin and everything in between. I am a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal, no idea where I would feel welcome.</p>
<p>Yeah, my sister’s somewhere in Berlin, though I don’t know which area of Berlin. </p>
<p>Oberlin’s on my list too (at least for now) but I’m not sure I’d like Ohio because I’m Asian (I would rather have a distribution of Asians that isn’t like 3%.). What’s important for me is to be able to do scientific research from the start (I plan on majoring in neuroscience).</p>
<p>Lately I have been adding more schools to my list then I have been removing. I am up to almost 20, it’s not good. I will be visiting Ohio, Washington DC and an area of Pennsylvania that has a cluster of schools I like before application time. Hopefully that will help, I have my ED school, it is just a matter of picking the others.
On a side note… AH!!! SAT scores in four days!!!</p>
<p>I think I failed the SAT…
My grades are slipping too -.-</p>
<p>Sat person here as well… Slowly dying. Haha. </p>
<p>I want to major in neuroscience as well! Behavioral neuroscience and I want to become a psychiatrist and head of a mental health treatment center/professor/researcher at the same time. I won’t ever go to med school in the US I suppose, but I am not worrying about that for now. Maybe I’ll just become a PhD and licensed psychologist and teach myself psychiatry on my free time - I have already started XD</p>
<p>Berlin is lovely! I live kind of on the other side, but in a city with a very similar vibe.</p>
<p>I have EA schools, though I may do ED for Pomona or Brown.
Right now though, I am working on getting all As this semester. Then I’ll actually prune my list. I’m only really doing badly in Physics so far; I’ll probably end up doing a pass/fail thing which colleges apparently don’t like… </p>
<p>I took the SAT subject tests and I’m not sure whether to be worried or not. I took Chem and Math2. I’m retaking the regular SAT in March. </p>
<p>I want to be a researcher in neurobiology, most likely, though depending on my GPA in college I may consider med school.</p>
<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>I’m an international student… I’m really curious about what public school is like in the US. Does anyone mind answering some questions for me? Thanks I can answer any questions about life in China (but no, people don’t live in temples and we don’t eat dogs for breakfast haha. it’s crazy how many times I’ve been asked things like that).</p>
<p>Good luck to those waiting on scores! </p>
<p>I’ve been really thinking about possible majors and realized that although I’m 100% pre-med, I’m still interested in basically every subject/career minus engineering. I obviously can’t major in everything but I would like to have some sort of background in things so I’m not dependent on other people for information.</p>
<p>So, I want to take courses in:
- French
- Hindi (i can speak, read and write and get by but I’d like to know more)
- Sanskrit (interested for religious purposes and also, the script is the same as Hindi)
- Economics (double major?)
- Anthropology
- Sociology
- Neuroscience (hard biochem) -> would like to major in
- MCB (2nd major choice)
- Physics (double major)
- Computer Science
- History, particularly South-asian and pre- Rome history. </p>
<p>Hopefully I can fit in everything. I think the more skills and knowledge you have, the better off you are.</p>