<p>Maybe. Arachne above a few posts was talking about it although s/he may have already known the prompts beforehand.</p>
<p>@quidditchat I am not an international and I looked at the themes and I think I know which one I love and will have plenty to write about!</p>
<p>Repede, the app opens Aug 1 but you can find the essays by googling ApplyTexas 2014 essay prompts</p>
<p>Wow. My school is going down. Budget cuts are a mess.</p>
<p>^ like the UC system. though they’re trying to counter that by letting in more internationals/OOS students with no aid.</p>
<p>Oh wow. We can’t even take seven classes next year unless we want to pay a $500 fee, on top of the fees we already have to pay. This is a public school with a fair percentage of students from a lower socioeconomic background. Class sizes are going to increase. Our writing center will be gone (my essays will be crap now). Ugh…can I just graduate now?</p>
<p>What’s a writing center? (guess my school is already rock bottom)</p>
<p>I do not have a writing center either.</p>
<p>I feel like they should cut from my school because they waste their money. </p>
<p>Did we need two carts of Kindles? No. Did we need 4 carts of iPads? No. Did the 200 teachers need new expensive-looking chairs? No. Did we need SmartBoards in almost every classroom? Um, nope. Most teachers don’t even know how to use them! Do we really need to pay the teachers so much (like 100k per year)? No, because most of them suck, and are there because they tried to sue the school at some point. </p>
<p>And yet they’re like “oh we’re so poor. donate more money for us. oh the budget cuts are just SO HORRIBLE!”</p>
<p>This is why I refuse to donate any money at all.</p>
<p>^Are you sure yours get paid 100k per year? That’s insanely high for HS teachers. </p>
<p>But yeah, we also got a bunch of Kindles and iPads. Completely unnecessary if you ask me. Our science department also ordered a bunch of laptops specifically for themselves, which we don’t need considering we have three different computer labs, and these new expensive gadgets that none of the teachers know how to use and the students don’t even know what they’re for. Yet despite that, we have only one centrifuge that is at least 60 years old, test tube holders that are at least 60 years old, dirty old beakers and other lab equipment, and textbooks that are falling apart. smh…</p>
<p>It seems really high, but most teachers do get paid that much. It’s almost as much as the pediatricians get paid. Which sucks. Because although both jobs deal with kind of the same age group, I think I’d rather be a pediatrician. But becoming a pediatrician takes like 9 years of training, while you could become a teacher in like 5 or 6. </p>
<p>As for lab equipment, yes we do have that stuff but because some company decided my school could take their older models of machines. I guess some grant writer or something works for my school and is good at making up sob stories. </p>
<p>So glad this coming school year will be my last there. Really can’t stand how they use their money.</p>
<p>Holy cow you guys are so lucky. Technology is ridiculously archaic here. No kindles, no ipads. </p>
<p>We don’t even have our own football stadium. We share it with another school. :eek:</p>
<p>Oh and their might be only one counselor for the whole school (2200 kids). I just want to hurry up and graduate so I can get out of this crappy system.</p>
<p>Grades at the end of last year: 6 As</p>
<p>Grades at the end of this year: 6 As</p>
<p>why are we posting our grades again?
my grades aren’t that great due to valid reasons</p>
<p>If I post my grades on here, I’ll get shunned from CC.</p>
<p>^hahaha…nice one</p>
<p>okay. yeah seriously, no offence to anyone, but why is our thread (class of 2014 THE seniors) so boring!</p>
<p>why not talk about random (even shallow) stuff! for fun! loosen a lil really…</p>
<p>lol i agree 2200andbeyondXD
only problem is… what do we talk about? haha</p>
<p>Ah! SAT comes out in less then eight hours!</p>
<p>I feel like all you guys talk about is school… Like its summer you guyssssss!!!</p>
<p>Lol, it’s totally true, but it feels like school never ends (CC is basically my place to vent about school). I have sooo much summer work for APs, and am taking a calc prep class and doing college apps, so yeah that’s my summer.</p>