<p>How was it?^</p>
<p>10x better than my life at this school</p>
<p>So I just calculated my GPA for the semester (very few things will change from now until then) and my to be cumulative GPA will be 4.19/5.0 and i expect to be ranked around 90ish out of around 800 (top 11%). How are you guys doing?</p>
<p>Are GPA’s in your school calculated by letter grades or numbers? In my school, a 96 and above is 4.0. That makes a 95, 3.99something.</p>
<p>@pastel - Numbers!</p>
<p>@anon - Our school doesn’t rank until senior year, but I don’t think I’ll be val or sal. I’m probably somewhere in the top 10, though (hopefully). My grade only has around 200 kids so it’s definitely not as hard as it would be in your school to land a top 10 spot. (:</p>
<p>I had a 4.5 at the end of freshman year. It’s a shame our school doesnt do class rank.</p>
<p>I have it easy. Unless someone just like me goes to the same big public school, I don’t have any competition for val. Out of a 5.875 scale (SC’s is weird), my GPA is a 5.45 and the next highest is a 5.1 in my class.</p>
<p>Have any of you started touring colleges yet?</p>
<p>The only “real” tour I’ve been on was for Columbia. I’ve toured Harvard and Stanford, but not conventionally with a tour guide (my cousins go there so they just walked us around). Then there are the schools that I’ve visited but never toured - Berkeley, Barnard, Juilliard, Yale, and a bunch of lesser-known and more local colleges.</p>
<p>I also went to Boston last weekend and visited MIT, which was so amazing. I got to go inside their media lab and I wish I could post pictures on here or something - everything was so innovative and amazing and inspiring. (: (You should have seen the bathrooms…)</p>
<p>Wow, i don’t think i’ve ever been on a college campus. Would LOVE to see Stanford though…</p>
<p>Toured Georgetown, George Washington, UVA, and William and Mary. We’ve visited VCU and University of Richmond. A lot.</p>
<p>The only school I’d go to are UCSD and UCLA. I don’t really need to tour them.</p>
<p>I visited three schools that I will apply to lol but out of those schools i want to go to just one. the other two are just like ehh. </p>
<p>its 4:57am and im awake studying/ cramming for my history test. 
this week i have over ten quizzes/ projects/ tests;;</p>
<p>I plan to tour MIT over the summer</p>
<p>1Slytherclaw, VA is awesome isn’t it?</p>
<p>I visited MIT, Harvard, Boston College, Boston University, and Princeton last summer and went to work with my aunt at Plymouth State U (NH). Fun</p>
<p>Visited MIT and Harvard, really nice places.</p>
<p>@imhkim - Aww, well I hope they went well! Same, all my teachers are trying to cram tests in before we go off on Thanksgiving break.</p>
<p>^thanks! i was half asleep while studying for history so im proud with my history test grade 
and the rest were good ~ really good! haha i did bad on my chinese test though… i got in the 90s but still my lowest test grade for chinese ahaha one of the questions was to get rid of one word tht doesnt fit in the sentence and for this one sentence, it looked perfectly okay so i didnt know which one to cross out. then later i crossed out one word that i thought was optional. apparently you werent supposed to cross out anything. but the directions didnt even say that you dont have to cross out sth -____-</p>
<p>Doing most of my visits this summer. Any campuses, in particular, that you guys liked?</p>
<p>Stanford and MIT were my favorites; Stanford’s campus is just overall really beautiful and the view of the Charles River from the back of MIT is phenomenal.</p>
<p>Is it just me or are you guys scared for finals also? I have like straight A-'s and they won’t go down or up so these finals basically determine my semester grade.</p>