<p>I’m hoping for princeton class of 2020 :)</p>
<p>This is really irrelevant but how long do severed spider legs move on their own? I accidentally lacerated it while killing the spider.</p>
<p>Columbia’s campus and Morningside Heights is so nice! I just can’t get over their core…guess it’s not ideal for everyone. /:</p>
<p>Columbia is one of my top choices but I’m definitely open to many others.</p>
<p>If I got into any of the top 20 schools (and if it wouldn’t be too burdening on my mom) I would love to go to Duke or Columbia. I love NYC but moved away in third grade :(</p>
<p>I’ve been to Duke before, the area around the school isn’t that great but then again I’m not a big fan of the school in general so I might be a little bias.</p>
<p>My dream is MIT, it was Stanford, but my parents said that that’s too far away for them to visit me enough (North Carolina to California). My only concern, is that it will be too cold for me if I got accepted to an Ivy school up north.</p>
<p>With Duke, I hear you’ve got a “gothic bubble” and that seems appealing. Besides, if I get one of their awesome merit scholarships, I could overlook any negative aspects.</p>
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<p>True that.</p>
<p>I have a minor dilema. I wrote some essays and asked my counselor to give them to one of my teachers to read and edit. The teacher doesn’t know I wrote them and I’d honestly prefer to keep it that way. They were personal, but not too deep. I just don’t like my teachers and classmates to know too much about my life outside of school. The teacher wants to meet me in person to go over some edit suggestions he made. I’m more than happy with what I wrote and I’m open to other opinions but I just don’t feel comftorable talking about them with the teacher. Should I just go anyway? What would you do in my position?</p>
<p>Why shouldn’t you go? You’re getting the advice you wanted and it will erase this barrier you have set up to talk about your work.</p>
<p>ON another note, I had no school today–awesome. </p>
<p>For any of you who do research, do you know when/where you apply?</p>
<p>Yeah I want to know, like Meander. I’ve found some professors at nearby colleges, but there’s a problem. So many professors have undergrads researching with them, and I don’t understand a lot of what the professors are researching…</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity, I’ve seen that video. It actually made me cry lol</p>
<p>@letmeseetheworld - Agree with Meander; you have nothing to lose!</p>
<p>@cupcake - Hahah it made me cry too, I’m a little obsessed. :P</p>
<p>Have you guys seen that video with those Asian kids and their Ivy League aspirations? I think there was this one jock who got like a 1400 on his SAT (out of 2400) and didn’t even take the SAT II’s, and he was rejected from Columbia.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s called Ivy Dreams and you can find it on YouTube. My mom actually showed me that lol…I actually thought their scores weren’t that impressive though. /: I mean, this one girl got a 600 on multiple subject tests and she and her parents were seriously considering Harvard.</p>
<p>Yeah. That’s the problem. It’s not a bad idea to be like “Oh, I’m really going to try to get a 2400,” but you shouldn’t say that if you have like a month left till the SAT test date but get like a 2000. I feel like it’s just so important to go by your standards and concentrate on your path. That’s pretty much why my mom doesn’t go like “Go to Harvard!” but instead nicely tells me to go to a place where my stats are average or a bit above average.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>The applicants themselves didn’t seem that impressive. I mean, one girl wrote about NHS, which is really stupid imo.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I’ve seen it because it was on the video recommendations or whatever for people getting accepted to their dream schools. I kind of sighed a little because I’m a mean hag because as a person who is Asian that goes to an Asian-dominated high school, my classmates do a lot more stressful stuff than the Asians featured in there. But then again, it was the 2005s and people take a LOT more APs nowadays <em>nod</em> </p>
<p>The person who wrote about NHS and asked the lady to fax her stuff back really surprised me. I wanted to go up to her and scream “noooooo what are you doing”</p>
<p>I feel like it was a good thing that the ones that didn’t get accepted to Ivies didn’t because they probably would have been better off going to a not-as prestigious college (which they did) than stressing out about getting into an Ivy or getting into an Ivy just 'cuz of the “prestige”. (The kid with the 1400…putting most flirtatious omf)</p>
<p>I agree with both you guys. Honestly, anterograde, you perfectly summarized my opinion in your last paragraph. I would be super sad and stressed out if people all around me seem so much smarter.</p>