6/10 FTW!
10/10 whoop.
@Cornbread1999 I’m pretty sure at least half of the graduating class applies to Stanford every year, yet on Naviance they said only 71 had applied (and 6 got in); I’m pretty sure there’s something wrong with our Naviance. I’m also pretty sure more than 22 people apply to MIT from my school every year.
My school doesn’t have a score.
My school is rated 4/5 stars. What is really fishy about all the reviews about my school is that they are all on the same day… a little fishy much? About 10 all on the same day!
Right now, I believe that I’d like to double-major in physics (concentration: astrophysics) and geology (concentration: either geophysics or planetary science) with a minor in English, then get a master’s in Geology and maybe eventually earn a doctorate. Probably not going to last, though. My mind flows in a thousand different directions. Also, I’d have to convince my parents that it’s feasible and that I’d have a chance of getting a job.
I really change my mind a lot.
My school has a 10/10 too and 4 stars out of 5 based on reviews
procrastinating
@topaz1116 same. I went to a math circle today, and while on the one hand it was really great, it also took a lot of time out of my day and since then I haven’t been able to focus. I got about a quarter of what I needed to get done today done. whoops!
The worst part is that I purposefully locked myself out of Twitter and Facebook so all of my procrastinating is on CC now
@pseudoprimal idek I want to do everything but math (what I’m doing right now). Like, I finally got around to doing some stuff for the literary magazine I run (neither of the other editors do anything and it really pisses me off because I’m human and I forget to do stuff and it makes us look bad and ugh). Tomorrow the full weight of everything I haven’t done (worked on English thing which no one else in my group has looked at, study for Spanish final writing portion, finish studying for math, get together my chem binder and make any revisions/corrections I need to) is going to hit me and I’m going to get super stressed-out. And I won’t have much time to study for finals on Tuesday, either (although our guard coach is letting us go a little early on Tuesday, it’ll still be 5:30 by the time I get home). I’m going to study for history now and it is a breath of fresh air.
But oh well.
Also, @Cornbread1999 I’ve heard about the Stanford thing… sniffs Y’all are lucky. You guys get as many kids in as [name of that one really, really expensive private school]… Our school only gets, like, 7 in a year and your school has almost 100 fewer students than us per grade…
On that note, have you ever been to Stanford Splash?
There is only one kid at my school that’s been known to get into Stanford, and he has the option of going there on a football scholarship. He has many other offers as well (NC State, Virginia Tech, Tennessee, East Carolina, Florida and Wisconsin). The kid’s got mad ball skills. Or at least that’s what I hear (I avoided the football games like the plague). There is one girl this year who got into Yale.
Last year, the valedictorian was accepted to Columbia and also got a huge scholarship (pretty sure they’re need-based?).
That’s the extent of impressive acceptances at my school. We have many kids accepted into UNC, but considering we live in North Carolina, that’s not as formidable of a feat.
@topaz1116 No, actually, I haven’t even heard of Stanford Splash.
And I think that the high Stanford admission rate at my school is simply because the children of Stanford professors go to my school. The admissions to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the other Ivies and MIT are not that high.
@Cornbread1999 it’s basically this two-day thing where you sign up for classes on anything and everything; classes are from 10-6 each day (Saturday and Sunday) + free food. The classes are taught by Stanford students and can be really interesting–there are classes on Quidditch, black holes, Arduino, and really anything you can think of (there used to be a class on chocolate). It’s really, really fun–one time I got to derive e=mc^2 and another time I learned about how weird time is. Classes are usually 1-2 hours, so you can sign up for a bunch.
I highly recommend going to the next one. I think Berkeley started one as well, although I can’t go because of an MUN conference (which our club officers are being super-unorganized about–position papers were due two weeks ago, meaning nobody can submit theirs anymore and we still haven’t been assigned countries or committees–and the conference is in two weeks; honestly, I doubt we’re going at this point).
My school gets around 5 people into each of the top colleges; slightly more for MIT, Columbia, and Princeton (I think we had nine acceptances to MIT last year, and seven-ish people went to Princeton, which means more were accepted) and maybe one or two less for Harvard/Yale. There was a girl who graduated last year who got into Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Columbia, CMU, Duke, Cornell, Caltech, UC Berkeley and UCLA (both with the Regent’s Scholarship).
@topaz1116 ahhh. That does sound fun.
I wish I lived close to a big university like you guys.
Splashes are actually held at a couple of places-- I’m pretty sure MIT and Columbia have them, too.
Awww It would be awesome to live close to a big, famous university like you guys 
Anyone here applying for any summer internships/jobs? I’m looking for one in a bank, financial institute, or a consulting/law firm. The only problem is how hard it is to find one at this level.
I’m applying to volunteer at a hospital summer program, does that count?
I have to be 15, and I turned 15 in September soooo I can finally do it this summer