<p>Ohio state and USciences finally put their questions on the common app!!! I’ve been waiting for like four days!</p>
<p>I’ve been planning like crazy too, I’ve created priority and checklists for all the colleges I’m applying to and I’ve hanged them up in my room. I also just received the NHS schedule for this year so I was chugging them in my calender.</p>
<p>The problem with living in the future is that you can never be sure there’s going to be one. But living in the present is hard. </p>
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<p>I saw that. And Ohio State requires an essay for their honors program. :mad:</p>
<p>Does anybody know what Stanford’s EA policy actually is? I’ve gotten conflicting information from them in two different places. Capitalization for emphasis is mine.</p>
<p>From the Common App: "I understand and agree that by applying under Stanford’s Restrictive Early Action program I MAY NOT APPLY TO ANY OTHER COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY under any type of early action, early decision, or early notification program, "</p>
<p>From their website: “The student MAY APPLY TO ANY PUBLIC college/university with a non-binding early application option.”</p>
<p>That sucks. I’m not applying to their honors program, I don’t think I can handle something like that.</p>
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<p>I don’t think so. I go to a public high school in the middle of nowhere with four AP classes and I’m happy about it. It’s easy to stand out and there aren’t as many random rules preventing you from doing whatever you want academically.
A competitive high school would only have made my inferiority complex worse.</p>
<p>i dont know any freshmen with ap classes in my school</p>
<p>I have the tendency to do just enough to do better than everybody or just about. However this only included people in my school early on before i came to CC. More competition would have definitely benefited me well.</p>
<p>Academic competition never crossed my mind before I came to this site. I always did my best and couldn’t care less about my classmates. Even to this day, I still couldn’t give a crap. It’s just unnecessary stress and worries.</p>
<p>I agree with egelloc80. I have virtually no competition for my number 1 spot that I became apathetic with my grades. I got 1 B and 2 C’s second semester of last year, and 3 more B’s first semester. Then my AP scores were all okay - they all passed, but I got one or two 3’s that shouldn’t have been if I had put the time and effort into studying instead of playing sports or slacking off. Yet I am surprisingly still number one… :/</p>
<p>But then again, a quick anecdote from my school. Several years ago we had one really smart girl who was pretty much slated to be valedictorian since freshman year. And she was ranked number one all the way up until second quarter of senior year. Then out of nowhere a new guy moved in with a perfect grades, literally took all AP classes his junior and senior year, and took her number one spot (and ended up going to Princeton). Needless to say that one girl pretty much despised the new guy!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank because around 40-50 students would be fighting for valedictorian. </p>
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<p>I would be lying if I said I didn’t envy you.</p>
<p>I live FAR in the future. I dream of being a successful adult.</p>
<p>I’m conflicted about the whole college thing. I’ve literally had little to no choice in what schools I’ve attended for my entire life, and I’ve attended a lot of different schools as a result of moving frequently. So, I’m accustomed to making things work. I b**** and complain frequently but it works out.</p>
<p>So, when it comes to things like colleges, I find deciding on stuff weird. I want to enjoy college but I don’t rlly know what I want. I like beautiful places and campuses, but most schools with nice FA are urban. Things like that. Plus, my parents won’t let me rule basically any school out (except maybe Brown) because they want me to have ‘options’.</p>
<p>If I have children - preferably just one, maybe two, I’d kind of want to send them to a school that doesn’t make them hate learning. Maybe it’s because everything is so stressful all the time (ECs, personal life etc.),but I feel like I don’t enjoy anything.</p>
<p>I have two loud younger brothers, and family is always over so if I lived in a quiet house I might go insane.</p>
<p>I want to have 3 or 4 children that would be good idk depends on how smoothly the first one goes you know</p>
<p>The only visible competition is that of the val & sal. Sal is the type of person who would spend 8 hours doing APUSH homework EVERY night (doing 3 or less got me, I believe, a 90 or 91 for the year), while the val is someone who studied for AP Chem the night before for an hour and would almost always get a high A (I think he might have gotten a B once… compared to the rest of us who failed more than a couple tests). Everyone else? I can’t even name off the top ten.</p>
<p>I like it. I don’t do well in competitive environments; they de-motivate me, rather than push me to do better.</p>
<p>Random: Has anyone read (or heard of) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain? It’s so good; I checked it out earlier in the evening and I’m more than 100 pages in.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of it, but never got around to reading it. Is it worth buying? I’m returning a book I didn’t like to the store.</p>
<p>Hmm… I think very few books are worth buying, but I’m also very stingy. It’s a good book, though; it has >4 stars on GoodReads, which says something about its quality (imo).</p>
<p>I’m really into stuff like this, so none of it is new information for me, but the way that it’s presented and executed makes it a worthwhile read. Plus, as a hardcore introvert, it’s nice to have my actions and personality validated lol.</p>
<p>I got my list to 13 colleges, but I’m so afraid I’ll not get into any so I keep searching. I want to apply to like 20.</p>
<p>@superstarlala, Lol, I want to apply to like 20 too. I keep taking off schools and then regretting taking them off. I took of Pomona and Princeton, but I might end up just putting them back on, lol. This is wayyyy to hard!</p>
<p>^ I have 14 right now (darned Georgetown isn’t on CA so I keep forgetting it lolol). My plan of action is waiting for all the supplements to go up and then deciding whether or not to keep my fringe schools based on whether the extra questions/essays will be too much work.</p>
<p>I’m applying to 5 schools EA. We’ll see about RD. I think I’ll end up applying to around 10-12</p>