High School Class of 2014

Pre-College Topics High School Life
10342

<p>I’ve never had a teacher who wasn’t white. (My high school isn’t in Cleveland…it’s in this little unincorporated village where the population is like 98% white.)</p>

<p>Wait…this year I have an Asian professor. But all the teachers at my high school are white.</p>

<p>On Tuesdays/Thursdays I only have one class, and it let out early today, so I was only in school for an hour. And I went to Starbucks while everyone else from my high school sat in the cafeteria drinking milk out of cardboard boxes. </p>

<p>But the work is hard.</p>

10343

<p>I used to live in LA where my kindergarten teacher was Fillipino. Now I live in Kansas and all of my teachers have been white.</p>

10344

<p>Most of my teachers are white. Although most of the kids at my school are Asian, or Asian Indian. I’ve been in the area I’m living in for like 10 years, and I’ve had maybe 5 teachers who weren’t white.</p>

10345

<p>I’ve had a teacher from every background. White, black, Asian (including Indian), and Hispanic. My school’s diversity is truly a beautiful thing. One of the main (and few) positives about that place.</p>

10346

<p><— Goes to an upper-middle class Christian school</p>

<p>One of my Spanish teachers was Chilean. We hired our first black faculty member last year (guidance counselor).</p>

<p>Also, three lab sciences in one year was a terrible idea.</p>

10347

<p>I also go to a Christian school. Most of the kids who were heathens got kicked out/transferred (because they’re too cool) in freshman and sophomore year. So only about 60 kids left in my grade</p>

10348

<p>In all my 12 years of school, I’ve had one African American teacher. He taught French.</p>

10349

<p>Finished my common app essay :D</p>

10350

<p>I’ve seen about 5 African American teachers total at my schools so far which is a pretty good number. But one is a principal of my old school now. Other than that they’re all either Caucasian or Asian.</p>

10351

<p>Okay, I made a college list and I keep changing, but I think it is perfect now.</p>

10352

<p>Haha, I always come to that conclusion… then I think of adding/removing a school… I’m so indecisive.</p>

10353

<p>I have a few that are set, but then I keep finding others</p>

10354

<p>The teachers at my school are far from diverse- we have (if I’m not mistaken) one Asian teacher, no African American teachers, and one Middle Eastern teacher. There’s another teacher who was born in Czechoslovakia. I don’t particularly like her teaching, but she does have really good stories about her life- her parents were anti-Soviet spies and she used to be a UN translator.</p>

10355

<p>I have never ever had an African American teacher or an Asian teacher. There have been Asian teachers in the schools I have went to, and in my current high school, but never an AA teacher.</p>

10356

<p>Drexel offered me a free app so I decided to apply for the heck of it. They have what I want so.</p>

10357

<p>Finished your common app already?
You lucky soul. When is it due?</p>

10358

<p>Lol, I was surprised Tulane gave me a fee waiver since it’s actually a pretty good school.</p>

<p>Also, the Common App is due, I believe, just whenever the individual college your applying to has its due date.</p>

10359

<p>I finished my Common App essay a long time ago. I still have to get teacher recommendations and schedule my second-semester classes and write supplement essays.
But school started and it’s hard, so now I’m basically brain-dead when I’m not studying, and I can’t think to write supplement essays.</p>

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<p>The good qualities I see in myself aren’t really the same as the good qualities other people see in me, and I don’t want to accidentally stop a teacher from writing something really good that I wouldn’t have thought of. I also don’t want my teachers to write things they don’t believe are true…I’m not a very good judge of myself and I don’t know what kind of person I am.
So I don’t want to have too much control over what the letters say, but I also don’t want them to just repeat my resume. I’ve really tried to (academically) differentiate myself from the other kids at my school, and I guess I just hope my teachers will be able to see that without me telling them that’s what they’re supposed to see.</p>

10360

<p>Just a question for you guys:</p>

<p>So, I recently signed up for an Kaplan SAT class to prep me for when I retake the SATs in October. The first time I took the SATs (in May) I got a 2080. Would you guys say it’s realistic to hope that the class will help bring me up to a 2250? I’ve heard success stories, but I would just like to know your opinions on whether this is a realistic goal/wish.</p>

10361

<p>It’s possible…I went from 1970 to 2340 with no class.
(Unfortunately, I do a lot of things with no class.)</p>

<p>But it depends somewhat on why you’re getting questions wrong…do you just lack knowledge of math/grammar, or is it something else?</p>