<p>My first day is next monday 
The 27th Good luck!</p>
<p>You guys start school so early. I start September 5th.</p>
<p>“Backtoschool” night today. School starts next Monday.</p>
<p>I haven’t done any practice PSAT. I really should do one so I know where I’m at. I hope I can get above 210 or something. </p>
<p>@IAmSoAmbitious, what did you get in different categories in your PSAT?
When I did the SAT two years ago, I got 620 in math. I know I can do a lot better than that in math by now. But I’m not sure about CR.</p>
<p>Any other sophomores still 14?</p>
<p>Nope. I turned 15 in April. I still can’t get over the fact that I could of been in 11th grade this year if my parents had let me skip 2nd grade lol.</p>
<p>Thanks Alex and Imsoambitious really pleased with getting in. </p>
<p>Also I’m 16 haha, I was held back in 5th grade because … Well , it’s a long story, it had nothing to do with academics whatsoever though. </p>
<p>I’m really worried about AP Physics though!! Math From geometry-precal was pretty easy to me (had some trouble with algebra I though)… So I’m less worried about calculus… Biology was pretty hard for me but I finished with the highest grade in the class (94) and the top exam score (one or two other kids got the same score)… But I’m pretty scared for physics!! I don’t thin my nerves will quit till I get to class and see how it is. I which I could prep a little in this least week for it but everything is for studying for the ap exam and not the class.</p>
<p>I wish I could be that skilled in math. Instead I finished with a 98 in biology without trying, and struggled with geometry…VERY MUCH. Geometry was so hard for me. But I think you will do fine in AP Physics, you have a great math background that will help you a lot.</p>
<p>@UKGirl, turned 15 today 
:D</p>
<p>I have two more days of 14, and happy birthday :)</p>
<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY @crazyfrog821</p>
<p>Yeah a lot of people either thought geometry was super easy or really hard. And I’m glad I have a strength somewhere, I see all these people flying through history/social studies classes or languages and I find both particularly difficult :). Hopefully my math will help , that’s mainly why I’m not taking Chem because firstly, so many sophomores at my school do terrible in that class and next because it’s a lot more difficult science and alot less math while physics is the opposite </p>
<p>Haha next question : dream schools you guys? </p>
<p>I’m shooting for Princeton, Stanford , or Yale but if none of that works out I’ll probably go to UNC chapel hill (it’s super cheap for instate and it’s one of the only top schools I can afford) . Last year two students I know got accepted to MIT and Harvard so I know I have a chance at something top tier if I keep my grades perfect lol :)</p>
<p>UNC Chap and Elon (I can walk to elon lol) for the in state schools. </p>
<p>But I like a lot of schools:
Oxford and Cambridge even though they are in England
I like Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Princeton, I like stanford, but I don’t want to live in Cali. I also like Columbia :)</p>
<p>Either Harvard or Oxford, depending on what I study</p>
<p>@AlexHarper: Why don’t you want to live there?</p>
<p>Ehh, I am not prejudice in anyway, but there really is a big difference in the east coast west coast personality. When I went up there people were rude, no “pardon me” or “excuse me” and “ma’am and sir” were unheard of. It might just be a southern thing, I don’t know, but I didn’t enjoy whatever it was. I know a lot of my schools are up north and I haven’t really been past virginia, so we’ll see how that goes. Plus, California is expensive! And if I’m already paying for stanford, thats a lot of money.</p>
<p>Certain parts of the south are unfriendly as well. Where I live, neighbors don’t even wave or smile at you :(</p>
<p>I got perfect for all categories on PSAT, no questions incorrect. And I dont think Physics B is very hard, If your in calc you should have no problem.</p>
<p>and the Northeast is nothing like that Alex. No ones speaks like that, it is sort of odd that way. I like The Ivies, MIT, CIT, Cmu, Stanford, Vandy, BC, duke, NWU, Rice, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, UMich, Stern, Berkley…</p>
<p>I’ve lived in California since I was two, and people are very friendly. I don’t think they’re trying to be rude when they don’t say things like “sir” or “ma’am”; to me, and probably to the rest of us Californians, it just seems needlessly formal to do so. Maybe we’re just more laid back? Haha.</p>
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<p>Yep. And i will be for another 2 months.</p>