<p>I’m preparing for 3 subject tests at the same time, but I think I’ll only be comfortable with 2 of em by the time I take em in October.</p>
<p>Haha… One time I was talking to some people and I was saying that part of the reason that I’m taking all honors classes is because some of the colleges I want to go to won’t even look at you if you’re not taking advanced classes (if they’re offered). One girl snarkily said, “So you’re saying because I’m not taking honors classes, I’m not going to get into college?” </p>
<p><em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>I replied, “No, you’re just not going to get into Harvard.”</p>
<p>I recently told a sophomore who had a 2.5 GPA that literally everyone from my school has gotten into Alabama. I think I made his day.</p>
<p>I deleted Wellesley because I’m not a girl</p>
<p>^ Well played.</p>
<p>I deleted every public OOS uni because UT engineering is better than most of them and on even footing with the rest.</p>
<p>Some times I wish I was a girl because I would LOVE to go to Spelman. It’s the only HBCU I like.</p>
<p>^ I went there when my father had his Morehouse College reunion. Morehouse and Spelman are great schools.</p>
<p>I deleted Stanford because:
a) They have a $90 application fee and I have the exact same chance of getting in whether I apply or not.
b) At the beginning of the summer I wrote their supplement essays without intending to apply, because I liked the prompts. Their website initially said they were supposed to be at least 250 words, so I made mine around 300 words. But the Common App text box has placed a 250-word maximum on them. Screw that.
c) My parents think its name is Stamford.</p>
<p>I deleted the LACs because they have bad financial aid and no graduate classes. I would have liked to go to an LAC, though. </p>
<p>I deleted all my non-Stanford reaches other than UChicago and Michigan because
a) I don’t want to do the extra work and
b) I would only have been applying for the prestige.</p>
<p>The University of Dayton called me on the phone (with an actual person, not a recording) demanding to know why I wasn’t considering them. I’m not considering most colleges…</p>
<p>So I finished my Common App Essay (Draft 2, the first one was absolutely awful), and it is almost 100 words over the limit.</p>
<p>Please just let me die right now. I don’t know if I can go on.</p>
<p>I have the opposite problem. My Common App essay is about 650 words under the limit.</p>
<p>You and I, Repede. One and the same.</p>
<p>I had mine at 650 and cut out all the unnecessary fluff to get it to 520, and I still think it’s effective.</p>
<p>Mine’s 350 words right now.</p>
<p>Two of my friends said my essay is great (2/2!), which really makes me happy!</p>
<p>I just have to cut out about 100 words of fluff, and then I’ll be good to go. Yee.</p>
<p>Prepare yourselves, colleges everywhere. Ya’ll won’t even know what hit you. Yee.</p>
<p>Yup, so far my readers have enjoyed my essay even with the fluff I originally had. </p>
<p>Pretty satisfied. But still so many supplements to do…</p>
<p>I don’t know how to use my essay to tell people about myself. Mine’s about baking and it’s half done, but it’s basically experiences I’ve had rather than why I’m content.</p>
<p>My essay was exactly 650 words. Then I cut like, 6 words. There’s a section I really need to develop more, but I need to provide proper context for it to make sense as well. My counselor thought it was pretty good but my English teacher thought it needed to be more emotional or personal. I know I probably should improve it but I can’t quite figure out how to go about that.</p>
<p>I’m too negative, apparently. Well, I knew that, but still.</p>
<p>Both my parents and my friends think I’m pessimistic and lack self-confidence.</p>
<p>I call it being realistic.</p>
<p>@collegeluva101: HA. Me too. Wish I had a Princeton friend to stalk on Facebook…</p>
<p>@lldm21: Weird, I swear I’ve heard scary things about MIT.
But I guess those problem sets can’t be too terrifying; otherwise no one would make it out alive. (The fact that MIT students are all geniuses can’t hurt though)</p>
<p>@superstarlala: I think people just get scared because the college admissions process happens in a big black box. I don’t see why more than one safety school is necessary…that’s why it’s a safety school.</p>
<p>Edit: whoa, evidently I was responding to replies a few pages back. My bad lol</p>