<p>@evanb: Our school doesn’t really give that much funding to support music, so we make up for that with the fundraisers of the honor society.</p>
<p>@sardony: The marching band always encourages the school to give us money because we win 1st or 2nd in our class every competition we go to. We are almost unstoppable, but there’s always one band that a select judge has to give an extra point to.</p>
<p>@evan: oh wow, transferring. Well i assume that the school you’ll be going to will have a lot more opportunities? Dedication is good. I plan to stick to Debate and Tri-M (when i create it. I have stiffened my resolve). I’ll have to participate in both our school’s Robotics team and Envirothon, and see if i’ll dedicate myself to them. </p>
<p>@sardony: Yess, they are amazingg. Wow, this is really expanding the ideas i had. I was thinking maybe 2 ensembles or something, but having people play what they want/even solo is good too. I think that when i create a Tri-M in our school, i’d also like for all the members to participate in 1 piece as a whole group (i guess i’m still a little clingy on the orchestra/symphony idea xD). Does it get a little disorganized with people playing whatever they like? Well maybe not, since i guess the managers of the club do their job well. 
Thanks for all this information, it was extremely helpful!</p>
<p>@upinflight: Yea, I’m planning to transfer to the NC School of Science and Math. NCSSM is one of the most elite public schools in the nation and was the first state boarding school in the nation. I’ll apply in December and find out in April if I am accepted or not. A lot of kids there are #1 in their class at their home high schools. But, the school doesn’t rate students and hopes for the best in their students.</p>
<p>@evan: Nice!! Seems like an ideal school with all of its students intelligent and motivated. Best of luck when you apply, and i hope you get in. (:</p>
<p>Forgive me, i might’ve read this and forgotten, but what do you want to be when you grow up? [wait, wasn’t it a professor/a career in education]</p>
<p>He wanted to be a bio-chemist.</p>
<p>^ okay, thanks. Then, who was it that wanted to go into education? o_o Ah, my memory fails me.</p>
<p>@nothingto and @upinflight: You are both wrong (in a way). I wanted to be a pharmacist w/ minor in Spanish and Business Administration. If didn’t get into pharmacy school after two years undergrad, then I would major in biochem w/ minor in education and teach biology or chemistry for a few years, then keep trying to get into pharmacy school.</p>
<p>Hey there guys! I’ve been out of the country for the last few weeks but I feel like I’ve missed so much of this thread ):</p>
<p>Is anyone else freaking about summer assignments?! </p>
<p>I have to write a page about 25 different supreme court cases for AP gov :3 and do a literary analysis/book report for HN English.</p>
<p>@jerevedeparis: I’m not freaking out because I found out that my Honors English 2 class wasn’t until 2nd semester so I have an extra 18 weeks to watch a movie, read analyses, and read the Theban plays by Sophocles. I had one earlier for camp to prep me for research at Duke.</p>
<p>@evanb that’s great news!! </p>
<p>Research at Duke?! What? That’s pretty sweet, how’d you score that?!</p>
<p>@jerevedeparis: I scored research at Duke from this camp at the NC School of Science and Math that I’ve been going to for the last four years. It’s for minorities in northeastern NC to encourage us to pursue degrees after the bachelor’s since our area has the lowest Master’s and above degree rate in NC. Also, it is also used to encourage us to apply to NCSSM since our area has the lowest application rates in the state. Lastly, it wants to keep us up-to-date in the field of life sciences since it moves so fast and minorities are usually the ones to get left behind. It’s alot of negatives about where I live, but a lot of good things here happen that don’t get recognition like it should (my school’s band is a 2 time national champion, a person created an internationally recognized motivational speaking company).</p>
<p>@upinflight: Hmm… I wouldn’t say it got disorganized because we had orders for who was to perform next and such. Good luck, and you’re very welcome :D</p>
<p>@anaychi. Nice job on the clubs! That’s awesome! I definitely will pursue this now; thanks for the input!</p>
<p>@sardony. I love the coffee house idea! I’ve been wanting to put together something like that at my school- mind if I steal your idea? ;)</p>
<p>@ jereve. Firstly, je reve de Paris, aussi! I’m going next June!! <3 As for summer assignments, I still have to read 3.5 of the five classic American novels I was assigned, and then write a minimum of ten page paper linking them all to each other, and to my perception of the “American Dream”. All for day #1 of school~</p>
<p>I want in to Duke so bad :(</p>
<p>It’s like the ivy league for non-ivy league schools. </p>
<p>Or Stanford.</p>
<p>@evan: Dang, what amazing opportunities. :]</p>
<p>@nothingto: I know what you mean, I’m just dying to get into one of those schools. T_T</p>
<p>@sardony: I looked into Tri-M a little further, and i found that it DOES exist in our school. The weird thing is, i asked a lot of upperclassmen (many of which who love music) and they said they’d never heard of Tri-M at our school. =/ I’m thinking either 1) The club somehow died due to lack of participation/poor management 2) None of the magnets participate, but maybe the nonmagnets at my school do. I just find it really strange that not a single one of my friends has heard of this, and yet it’s listed as a club on our school’s website. They only listed the club and provided the sponsor’s email though (in this case, 2 sponsors), so i emailed them. I later found that one of the sponsors isn’t working at our school anymore, so i’m thinking it’s very possible that Tri-M no longer exists at our school. Very ominous… lol. As you might’ve guessed, i didn’t really get any actual work done today.</p>
<p>@jereve: Wow, you guys certainly have alot of hw. D: I’m taking AP NSL too, and we have some 6 page thing related to the constitution. For precalc C, i have some math packet (but it says to complete it on the last week of summer vacation…), and i have to write one report for english.</p>
<p>^Stanford would be amazing. I think outside the Ivy League, the three best non-tech oriented schools are Stanford, UChicago, and Duke (in that order). </p>
<p>It’s going to be fascinating watching everyone’s admissions decisions unfold in a couple years. I, for one, cannot wait.</p>
<p>@studious: I know! It’s going to be really interesting to see what we’ll achieve in the next 3 years and what our efforts bring. </p>
<p>This brings up the topic: which universities do you guys really want to apply to?
As for me, Harvard (dreaming right now), Columbia, U Penn, J Hopkins, and Duke are all up there.</p>
<p>@upinflight For the Computer Science Club, it was co-founded by a few computer-oriented friends and I. Philosophy Club, on the other hand, was solely founded by me. It was a small idea I had that I brought up to my AP World teacher, who is fascinated in the subject of philosophy. When it came to recruiting members, Computer Science club was a bit low-key. We wanted it to be a club for people who are genuinely interested in computers, so we didn’t try to pursue a large member base. We just put together some flashy flyers in photoshop, and that’s it.</p>
<p>Philosophy Club was started in the middle of the year, and to kickstart advertising, I gave the school office some rather comedically cheesy scripts for the announcers to recite in the morning. That garnered a satisfactory amount of members, based on the idiocy of the announcements alone. A lot of the marketing was also word of mouth, from the my AP World teacher, and many of the members. Due to the swift, and relatively “in-your-face” advertising, we gathered members quickly. Our high point was about a month into the club’s life, with about 25-30 members.</p>
<p>Also, hopefully we don’t have some sort of genetic link. I’ve been noticing how many times we cross-post. Haha.</p>
<p>EDIT: upinflight, our desired colleges are almost the same too! Just replace Stanford with John Hopkins, and that’s my list, really.</p>
<p>Question: I was also wondering, do you any of guys go to “high-brow” private schools? Like Phillips Exeter, Boston Latin, IMSA, if you’ve heard of them.</p>