<p>^Same here. After I get back on April 8th, I don’t have any days off until Memorial Day :(</p>
<p>I have spring break this week, but each of my honors and AP classes gave me work over spring break. :(</p>
<p>My spring break is the 15th to the 17th. Woo.</p>
<p>Are people beginning to ask you guys (on a regular basis) where you’re applying/what you want to major in?</p>
<p>Yea, all of my dad’s friends are asking me if I’m going to UT Austin.</p>
<p>Also, post #6666</p>
<p>Where I live, the conversation usually goes like this.</p>
<p>Them: Where are you going to college?
Me: I don’t know, I have to apply to places and see if I get in.
Them: What’s your ACT score? <em>doesn’t know about SAT</em>
Me: <em>tells them</em>
Them: You can go anywhere you want then.
Me: No, some colleges even reject people with 36s and 4.0s.
Them: ZOMG, really?
Me: I also have to see what schools I get good financial aid from.
Them: Oh, you’ll get a $100,000 scholarship with that score.</p>
<p>The other one goes like this.</p>
<p>Them: What do you want to major in?
Me: Math.
Them: <em>finds way to end conversation quickly</em></p>
<p>You can’t really blame them though.</p>
<p>Question…
I’m going to be spending the next three days in Massachusetts visiting schools. I’ve only ever visited schools when the weather has been nice, so I’m not exactly sure what to wear for these visits. I live in the Northeast, so I’m used to (endless) winter, but not exactly sure what to wear visiting schools when its still really gross out. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Its miserable to visit schools when its raining. But when its cold is not awful. When I toured UMass Amherst it was around 15 degrees and windy but the guide just made sure to stay inside for as long as possible</p>
<p>@halcyonheather That’s exactly how my parents and grandparents operate. But like Kongo said, it’s hard to blame them. My grandparents never went to college, and my parents went to college during a time when a 28 was an impressive ACT score. Oh well, I’m not applying to elite schools, so I guess I won’t have to shake their worldview by getting rejected, haha.</p>
<p>Whenever I meet adults it usually goes like this:</p>
<p>them “where do you want to go to college?”</p>
<p>me “MIT is my first choice”</p>
<p>them “YOU want to go to MIT?”</p>
<p>so many people stereotype it as a nerd school lol so because i play sports and dont have glasses they freak out</p>
<p>I live in a pretty competitive area, so this is what conversations go like:</p>
<p>Them: So UC Davis is the “lowest” school you’re applying to, right?
Me: Um, no actually. I’m trying to see where I can go with a lot of financial aid.
Them: What are you talking about? UCs are dirt cheap. Why would you bother with financial aid? Also, USC?
Me: Well, my sister’s in college, and only one of my parents holds a job…
Them: Oh… I’m sorry
Me: Don’t be sorry. I can go to a perfectly okay school. But I don’t want a huge debt and some of the ivys don’t fit my personality, my interests, etc. That’s why I’m not applying to all the ivys.
Them: WHAT? That’s blasphemous.
Me: Well, I’d rather not waste the money to apply to the ones I’m not even interested in.
Them: But…</p>
<p>Yeah, so basically most of my friends are planning on applying to all the Ivy League schools, and the UCs (and USC) are their safeties. Well, I hope they don’t whine to me when they get rejected from all their schools. (They’re not planning on applying to the “lower” UCs such as UCSC, UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UC Merced.) </p>
<p>I will, on the other hand be applying to four UCs (probably) with a range of selectivity: UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, UCSC. And, only three of the all the top 15 schools most people at my school will apply to.</p>
<p>“during a time when a 28 was an impressive ACT score”</p>
<p>It still is, as far as I know (except on here). The average is like 21 or something.</p>
<p>I’m so jealous of all you people who get comments about going to a nerd school or financial aid. For me, it’s like this:
Them: Where do you want to go for college?
Me: Idk, Barnard, NYU, hopefully the best university I can get into…
Them: Not Touro or Stern???
Me: Nope! I want the best education possible!
Them: <em>GASP</em> But that’s not a Jewish college…you can’t go there!
My principal is not just gonna have one cow, she’s gonna have a whole farm of cows when she finds out I’m not going to a Jewish college…Oh well.</p>
<p>A Composite score of 28 is 91st percentile.</p>
<p>And I just signed up for the AP Spanish Language Exam. Only problem is I’m not in AP Spanish. I need help self studying for the AP; any advice?</p>
<p>I should have been more clear. Impressive as in the high score some years for many schools. At least according to my mom, 28 was the highest score she knew of for her class. She had a 24 and was given the presidential scholarship to a local LAC, so I’d say the bar has been raised quite a bit since the 80s. And the valedictorian of my dad’s class apparently got a 30.</p>
<p>I got a 33 and apparently that was the highest score my GC had seen in his entire career. Like I said, I live in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Apparently so, haha. Well I sort of live in the middle of nowhere, but lately we’ve had some good test takers. We had a 36 in the class of 2012, a 36 in the class of 2013, and a 34 this year. Though I have a feeling he will end up with a 36 in the April test. I got a 32 personally. Not exactly sure where that puts me in the context of the rest of my class, since I don’t know everyone else’s scores.</p>
<p>Congrats on the great score, by the way!</p>
<p>Private schooler here. I got a 36, and two of my friends got a 2400 and a 2390. I also know at least 5 people that got a 32+, and 5 people that got a 2200+. And that’s just my class of 120.</p>
<p>Visited UW-Madison today, and I was really impressed. It feels a lot more urban than you would think, but it’s really clean and not overwhelming like many big cities are.</p>
<p>The buildings are all pretty close together, which is good for a Wisconsin winter. The unions seemed really nice, and there are several new facilities, dorms, and apartments. Also the lake and scenery was pretty serene. </p>
<p>All the people were really nice too. Which I guess is to be expected from tour guides, but still. All the prospective students I talked too were cool as well. </p>
<p>Overall I’d say it’s better than I thought it would be, and I thought it would be great. I have UIUC tomorrow, and Iowa St on Thursday/Friday, though I really don’t want to go to ISU anymore. Sadly we already have hotel reservations, and if I said I didn’t want to go it would stress my parents out even if it was possible to cancel the reservations.</p>
<p>Is college confidential a harmful website now? On my home computer, it says nothing, but on my mobile, it says that “this site may harm your computer.”</p>