<p>Is school making anyone else seriously depressed? I expected a 100 on my English quiz, I got a 93. It’s hard NOT to define myself by the scores I get.</p>
<p>So the counselor came to our class and talked to us about colleges. I was like an expert,
I knew everything about sat iis, the act, sat. Everyone was joking about harvard and little do they know, people on CC go there and I have inside sources</p>
<p>I feel like my school doesn’t support going to college at all. They don’t talk about. You’re only allowed one college visitation day excused and everyone goes to state schools. The most they do is take us to one college fair because individual colleges don’t come here. Ugh rural public school :(</p>
<p>@55al00m - I’m pretty sure my school doesn’t even take us to college fairs…most people here go to state schools, too, there’s only 1 or 2 people each year who end up at really good schools (last year, the val and sal went to Brown and Penn).</p>
<p>So like I completely was not informed that there’s a SAT II test scheduled this Saturday. It’s for Japanese and the test doesn’t even use characters, it’s just romanized in English.</p>
<p>I’m taking the bio one this Saturday^</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity nobody goes to Ivies here ever. Atleast I’ve never heard of anyone. Last year’s best students went to penn state, Pitt, and grove city.</p>
<p>2012’s val went to Stanford, and a few years ago, one girl got into MIT.</p>
<p>That’s about it, though.</p>
<p>Catchinginfinity, don’t worry about it. I mean, as long as your GPA is 4.0, I don’t think it matters. Besides, you’re allowed to have one weak subject lol :P</p>
<p>I’m horrible at English when it comes to stating grammar rules and whatnot, but I consider myself a relatively good writer. My weakest subject would still probably have to be English, though. Idk, it just bores me.</p>
<p>We have everyone going to either uva, William and mary, vt, or VCU. In state for uva is much easier. And then one girl went to Syracuse and everyone oohed just bcuz it was OOS I guess, I’m not really sure why. Also, what sat 2 test r u guys taking? I’m thinking Spanish, bio-m, and maybe world history maybe chem I don’t really know. I’m really trying to stay away from straight math so I figured that chem was close enough</p>
<p>@Slyther - I’m planning on taking chem and history by the end of this year, math II next year, and maybe physics and Chinese in 11th grade too.</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt - Hahah thanks…just curious, what’s a 4.0 at your school? My school only does scores out of 100.</p>
<p>And “val went to Stanford…that’s it”? I would do pretty much anything to get into that school. I’m pretty sure only one person from my school has been accepted there, and that was because of an athletic scholarship. ):</p>
<p>This guy went to Yale two years ago, though, and a bunch of people get accepted into NYU and Cornell each year…so I guess that’s decent.</p>
<p>haha good luck with the SAT II’s guys! 
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<p>last yr seniors (so current college freshmen) at my school are like everywhere. 5 are at columbia, one at stanford, one at harvard, one at princeton, one at yale etc etc the val is at columbia (accepted to columbia with regular decision lol) and 6 people are at the my dream college and i think 6 is actually a lot. </p>
<p>you know when you make the stupidest mistake ever and youre just like if i had gotten this right, then i could have gotten a hundred… there was this word problem on my math test that i knew how to solve and stuff. the question included the given information “40 minutes” while the given rate was “56miles per HOUR” but i didnt see that one unit was in min and the other in hours so i got that one wrong… but the way i solved it was right 
does anyone else make silly mistakes like mine?</p>
<p>Slyther, I’m doing Bio-M this Saturday, Math IIC this December (or November, idk), and Chem in May/June (or maybe right at the beginning of junior year).</p>
<p>Catchinginfinity, 4.0 is 90 or above. 97-100 is an A+, but I forget the other ranges.</p>
<p>Lol I didn’t mean to make his accomplishment seem small. I meant that the val was the only person to get into a top tier school in the last two years :P</p>
<p>So is a 5.0 97 - 100?</p>
<p>@imhkim - ALL THE TIME. We had a history quiz and each question was worth ten points…I could have gotten 100, but I changed my answer at the last minute. ): And on my math test, I made so many silly mistakes, like forgetting to simplify or solve for y after I found x…argh.</p>
<p>Not exactly. An A or above is a 4.0; that’s the highest the scale goes. The school doesn’t weight, I don’t think.</p>
<p>What ap prep book is best for ap gov? And did you guys/ are you going to buy prep books for the SAT 2s?</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity- ik i hate it when that happens! its actually so disappointing… and today i actually made another careless mistake too… on my chinese quiz, we had to write down the characters and for one of them, i forgot to include 2 dots on the top grrrr! </p>
<p>@55al00m- i have no idea for ap gov, sorry! but im going to take math 2c and probs buy barrons? or maybe princeton revieew idk yet lol</p>
<p>No idea about government. For the bio SAT II, I’m using Barron’s and Kaplan.
For chem, I’m using Barron’s. Barron’s is widely regarded as the best SAT Math 2c book since.it’s much harder than the actual test. Also, the subject test blue book is pretty nice for practice. I just took the official biology practice exam and got a 790. Missed three, skipped four. I hope I do this well on the actual one. This practice test didn’t have an organ, though. Pretty atypical, imo.</p>
<p>Have you ever done better on a reading quiz without reading than someone who actually read and took notes? I got a 2/5 and they got -1/5(yes they got a negative, it’s taken off another quiz grade).</p>
<p>omg you guys get negative points? LOL awww i shouldnt be laughing but… for me, im usually one of those people who read and just do worse than the people who didnt read… I have a bad memory and I just cant remember all of the small details or just often overlook them :(</p>