Anybody going to HOBY this year?
@pseudoprimal Hey, my friend didn’t get accepted to her dream schools - U of Chicago, Stanford, etc. She went to a really good state university (her safety) for a year and got excellent grades. She applied as a transfer student, and she got accepted to JHU, Stanford, and UCB.
Hey, your sister will do great wherever she goes. Good luck!
@SallyStephens LuckyBrave1 is right. At my school last year there was a kid who had taken every AP class we have, was valedictorian, but literally had NO life. Like no ECs at all. He didn’t get into any of his Tier 1 college choices. There was another kid though, who had taken most of the AP classes, but not all, was #2 or #3, and did a lot of ECs he was committed to, like track, swimming, QuizBowl, NHS, etc. He got into Cornell.
Also that kid will is probably just some spoiled, immature brat who has been told by mommy and daddy that he will get into whatever college he wants. Ignore him. Or just watch him struggle next year as he tries to keep up with you. 
My dad and I have been talking a lot about college recently, and for some reason internally I keep thinking I’m a junior and that I’ll be applying next year. I slipped up yesterday and had to explain this, and my dad looked at me, laughed, and told me that I would be applying to college next summer. Obviously, it was not quite what I had subconsciously been thinking, but on the other hand, college apps aren’t really that far away. August 1, 2016, here we come!
Also, I realized today that for years there’s only one road that has ever appeared in my dreams. It’s ten or fifteen minutes from where I live and usually I only have reason to be on it once or twice a week (everything is on the other side of town), but for some reason whenever I dream of being in a car, coming or going from my house, I’m on that one road. Anyone else have dream quirks like this?
And, totally unrelated-- if you’re typing out a homophone-dependent joke, which word would you use? Like “a necessary condition of being a doctor is having patience” or “a necessary condition of being a doctor is having patients”? Is there even a good way to get the point across in that situation?
@17Angel @1LuckyBrave @greeneggsandsam9 You guys are super supportive and I appreciate that so much. and don’t worry I didn’t even read all of that guy’s comment; I don’t pay attention to the negativity 
I saw the word pathetic – if wanting to be successful is pathetic, then I wonder what is non-pathetic?
Anyways… thanks for you guys being positive:)
And oh yeah I heard how valedictorians don’t get accepted a lot of the time. That’s okay, though, because due to health reasons, I have to stay close to home for college. 
There aren’t that many great colleges in my state…
In other news…
Oh my gosh guys I am so nervous. My SAT scores will be released in exactly 4 days. I am dying from apprehension.
@SallyStephens Well, you can take online classes at Ivy Institutions. I’m planning to take some online classes @ UCLA for college credit. Stanford, Cornell, Duke, and UCB also offer online universities. You don’t get the “college experience” from it, but you get the academic rigor that you are possibly seeking.
Also, the new SAT is almost like ACT (from Ivy Global prep books and other sources). This could be beneficial for someone who is direct and straightforward rather than an analytical person. Good luck with your SAT!
Does anyone know of free courses that I can take online during summer? It doesn’t have to be for credit.
@dsi411 MIT Courseware and Coursera.
https://www.coursera.org/courses
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Some community colleges offer free courses if you have a good GPA.
@dsi411
I definitely second @1LuckyBrave 's suggestions. There’s also an online course provider called EdX.
Thanks for the suggestions. I just emailed the local community college to ask about free courses and I’ll check out those websites too.
@dsi411 you live in California, right? As a high school student, you don’t have to pay for courses at all; generally registration opens in May. However (at least for my community college) you have to pay a twenty dollar health services fee and a five dollar electronic access fee.
Oh, then that’s great! Hopefully I can take a course online, maybe the person I emailed will tell me what courses are available for high schoolers since I don’t know much about it. It’s actually a junior college not a community college but I don’t think there’s a difference.
Generally, any UC/CSU transferable course (as long as there’s space–high schoolers are allowed to register much later than other CC students) is available; if you can find past course catalogs on their website, you should be able to get an idea of what’s going to be offered.
@1LuckyBrave The college classes would be just for college GPA, correct? They don’t go into high school?
I wish I could do that, though. I’m so excited because this weekend I’m going to volunteer at the hospital:)
I heard that as well and it sounds really great!! And thank you!! 3 days left:)
@Faultystart I just went on the website and browsed. It looks super cool…
I just looked at my grades online and I got a 2 out of 9 on an in-class essay I did the day before Spring Break. It was a DBQ for AP World History. It says I’ll have to rewrite it. I don’t know what happened, I thought it was pretty good!
@dsi411
Maybe you misread the topic or something like that.
@ThatOneWeirdGuy I guess so…I’ve done that before so I always make sure to be extra careful. I guess I did it again.
@dsi411 Maybe the teacher accidentally put in the grades wrong and that was supposed to be for a different student or something?