<p>@whoeverasked yes, I’m going to Westminster school next year It’s quite common to switch schools for sixth form, which is 11th and 12th grade</p>
<p>I’m still on holiday, but coming home today. I don’t want to face the cold weather! I was swimming in the sea this morning :)</p>
<p>Other things… There’s no way I’m going to a religion-affiliated school. Although, I said that about sixth forms as well and Westminster is church of England. It sort of has to be, it uses Westminster Abbey for assemblies :D</p>
<p>If I go to a school that has journalism, definitely that and probably a double major in political science. Non J-school, political science. The tough thing is, the only majors I like are ones that don’t have great careers (Journalism is now said to be the worst major :/) barely any jobs out there. If all else fails, I could see myself as a lawyer maybe. From 7th grade until now I had my whole life planned out, and now I just don’t know.</p>
<p>Well start out of thinking about your interests, and what career they’d translate into, and voila! Your major.</p>
<p>I’ll probably apply to , but don’t expect much of a response from:
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Brown.</p>
<p>Schools I’m more interested in and expect better chances with(more reach and low reach/match):
Princeton
UNC Chapel hill
Duke
Vanderbilt
Cal Tech
Stanford</p>
<p>Matches/safeties:
Carnegie Mellon
NC State </p>
<p>I expect to be graduating with a 5.3 unweighted GPA and probably around a 2100 on my SATs and I’m also planning on pursuing either programming or software engineering but I also want to maybe sit in or minor in business/marketing and advertisement.</p>
<p>5.3 unweighted??? Whaaat? Weird grading scale. I’ll have a 3.7 or so if I’m lucky (unweighted), I really have no idea right now what my GPA is for both years of high school. I actually don’t even really know my GPA this year.</p>
<p>^And by the time we graduate, it’ll probably become the best major. Funny how the world works…</p>
<p>I guess deciding would be easier if I was actually skilled in my interests…see, I play two instruments, but I’m not looking to perform as a career. Would it be cool to be in a famous symphony orchestra? Yeah, it would be amazing! But I’m definitely not cut out for that.
I used to be really into fiction writing (look up NaNoWriMo-I’ve done it since 8th grade. It’s amazing.), but then I got lazy this past summer and didn’t write at all, so now my writing kind of stinks, and I don’t get the same feeling of satisfaction from it that I used to.
And even though my favorite subject in school is math, I really would not want to work on math problems for the rest of my life. So that’s also out of the picture.
Maybe I’ll just put down something like ‘Liberal Arts Major’. xD I read somewhere that more employers are appreciating liberal arts majors than before, so I guess it could work?
We still have two years, though, so maybe I’ll know by senior year…</p>
<p>@Teaspoons-holy freaking crap. Totally agree with CE there.</p>
<p>@CE-ask your counselors for the information, or, if your school has an online grading system your GPA could be on there… that’s how it is at my school.
Your counselors should definitely have your GPA info, though.
I’m pretty sure I still have a 4.0…but we have to finish up our last two finals on Monday, joy, so maybe not. xD</p>
<p>Yeah, journalism majors are gonna stay bad; newspapers are seriously declining with all the social media and it’s only going to get worse. Maybe I can find a job at the associated press if I’m lucky…</p>
<p>Maybe you can write about musical something or other.</p>
<p>Yeah, well I only talk to my counselor like once a year, when we pick our classes, the guidance counselors offices scare me! :P</p>
<p>@CE: Didn’t think about that. I had a sleepover last night, so that’s probably why…</p>
<p>I think we have too many counselors. No one at my school really knows which counselor is theirs, because they all have different areas of expertise! Like, one of them deals with college planning, one of them with standardized tests, one with pre-AP/IB classes, one with AP/IB classes, heck, the list just goes on and on! It gets kind of overwhelming sometimes…
And only about half of our counselors are actually nice to talk to/be around in general. The others are really grouchy or condescending or both. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>We have like 5, they’re divided up in alphabetical order of our last names. I’m so MAD!!! WE HAVEN’T GOTTEN OUR PSAT SCORES BACK!!! And I can’t access them online without the access code until the 15th!!!</p>
<p>Yeah a bunch of other sophomores I was talking to were also really PO’ed about the lack of communication on the PSAT. So I told them next year to just go in and ask the counselor to see their scores in December instead of waiting.</p>
<p>Ha, I purposely went to the nicest counselor and asked (begged ;)) to see my scores, so she relented, and then I copied down the code on my iPod (she probably thought I was just writing my scores down) so I could see what I did wrong online. LIKE A BOSS! :D</p>
<p>We have one careers/college counsellor who’s only in school one day a week, and a teacher who runs the ucas college applications, but she’s not great for advice. Reason 3 why I’m leaving.</p>
<p>Oh about my gpa, standard classes are worth 4 points (4=a, 3=b etc), and honors classes are worth 5 points (5=A…) and AP classes are worth 6 points. The 5.3 weighted is only if I get a 4.0 unweighted… Which might not happen but I always seems able to pull my b’s up and I’ve not yet had a class where I don’t get the material/it’s hard for me to learn (most bad grades are from missing hw or something or lack of studying on my part). I would also say there are about 5-8 standard classes almost guaranteed but most of my other credits will end up being AP.</p>
It’s quite common to switch schools for sixth form, which is 11th and 12th grade</p>
Do you know what you want to major in?</p>
I honestly have NO idea what I want to major in right now…</p>
So that’s also out of the picture.
it was on the page before and I was in a rush so I couldn’t check.</p>