@SallyStephens if you did that at my school you would have a mob of angry parents trying to kill you xD
hello… im a sophomore from Fiji who will come to USA during Mid-Junior year in Nov 2015 ,its really shocking to me seeing how many classes americans have to take as here, one must only take 5 classes a year to get a perfect gpa lol 
I’m taking the AP Physics 1 test and AP Physics 2. Ive had to self study the majority of AP Physics 2 and I’m a little behind which is making me nervous… at least I have spring break this week to catch up!
@fijiavatar at my school, it’s only 6 unless you’re taking extra classes (Peer Resource/Marching Band/Musical Theater are the 0/7th period classes), so it’s not too different.
Where (state/general area) are you going to move to?
We can only take a maximum (and this is counting all extraordinary circumstances put together) of 13 AP classes at my school, and nobody in the history of the school has done that (although they have taken that many weighted classes, which includes college classes offered on-campus). In order to do that, though, one would have to be a math prodigy (there’s like one every other grade; this means you either have to have moved schools from a school with a more advanced curriculum or you have to have been three grade levels ahead in math in elementary school) and have been willing to sacrifice their life (we only have three easy APs; the rest are hell on earth). Said person would also have to take three sciences in one year, which only one person has done before (junior year, she wasn’t taking any math because she was a math prodigy and had taken BC as a sophomore; she got two hours of sleep a night).
24 AP courses? That’s crazy.
haha your reactions were funny to read ^.^ To be perfectly honest, our teachers aren’t difficult so half of the AP’s I wouldn’t consider AP’s. It’s such a corruption… there are a few teachers I appreciate for being real but the rest should really really strongly consider a job in comedy or babysitting. Just saying
“the rest should really really consider a job in comedy or babysitting.” I’m laughing. Well put, @SallyStephens.
@pseudoprimal hehe:)
@SallyStephens you’re really lucky xD If only…
But my high school gets at least five people into all the colleges I want to go to per year, so maybe it’s good that I go here (or maybe it isn’t). I don’t know.
I have added Brown to the list of places I want to go, and I’m thinking of removing MIT from that list because stress levels. Hm.
@topaz1116 funny, Brown recently crawled its way onto my list of colleges that I’ve chosen to learn more about!
@petitlion Duke is awesome! I have a really close friend that goes there now and I visited campus (and him lol) a while ago and I love it. The campus is beautiful, there’s such a diverse amount of people, Durham is AMAZING, and there’s a Chipotle.
I visited the campus of Northwestern and UChicago and I’m in love with NU but their grade deflation is turning me off a bit, LOL.
you’re all so lucky you’ll have the opportunity to go to any college you want 
i have to stay local due to health reasons and i cant get over it. there were so many places i wanted to go…
I’ve never visited any colleges, but hopefully next summer I’ll visit Georgetown (I literally live 20 minutes from DC).
I’m visiting UVA this summer because of the Writing Program, yay!
My other prospective choices are probably NYU, Amherst, and might as well put Columbia too! ;D
Realistically, though, I’m hoping to at least get into UVA and/or College of William and Mary. My backups are JMU and CNU (I live in Virginia, so yeah haha).
What about all of you? What colleges do you plan on applying to.
I visited Northwestern over the break (and was going to visit UChicago but ended up getting sick ) but I’m very familiar with my state flagship (it’s two hours away, but I’m up there usually more than once a month) and a few other random college campuses (F&M, MSU, University of Nevada–Reno).
I don’t really have anything even resembling a list right now, though I want to by around the start of junior year, but right now I’m thinking
*state flagship
*hopefully a national merit school or two
*Carleton, Reed, Swarthmore (dependent on if I can stand such a tiny school, and if I can, I might look more at LACs)
*a more match-y school
*a couple in the orbit of Northwestern, URochester, JHU, CMU
*Harvey Mudd (and maybe Pomona, too)
*Brown, Yale
*maybe Princeton? I can’t figure that place out.
*maybe one of MIT, Stanford
I know I want a school that doesn’t have a lot of core (though I might compromise this), is large enough that I can find people sort of like me, leans way to the liberal side of things (including having a happy queer community), is politically active enough that I’m not the most politically active person there-- ie, not most random tech schools, has enough math that I won’t run out (there are a few small LACs that just can’t work) and hopefully has a strong math (and linguistics?) department, isn’t too pretentious but also isn’t concerned about being cool (the duck syndrome at Stanford worries me), has people who talk about intellectual sorts of topics a lot, has lots of interesting options for social life that aren’t partying/drugs/Greek life, has cool theater productions that non-majors can do, and has around a 50/50 male/female split (I’ll go up to about 60/40, but I’m not considering the 80/20 tech schools. Most of them are way too engineering based anyways.)
That was just off the top of my head, so I’m probably missing a few criteria, but that’s the general idea of what I’m looking for in a school: a liberal place full of people who are interesting and interested.
(Also, you COSMOS kids-- I have my fingers crossed for you for positive decisions on the 17th!)
I would LOVE to go to UNC Chapel Hill. I live around 45 minutes away and it’s the dream in-state school for me. It also helps that it has an amazing journalism program, which is one of my top majors right now. But I probably won’t get in so dream on…
I attended their J Day session with my newspaper staff, and I also got a journalism tour last fall. I’m going to do a regular campus tour this fall and hopefully will also check out Appalachian State University and University of South Carolina (I already toured UNC Wilmington and ECU with my sister).
For some reason, I toured UNC Greensboro even though I’m not interested in attending there at all, but hey, my mom wanted to start touring random colleges.
I’m going to tour NYU this summer, which I’m massively excited about!
My list is as of now:
In state:
UNC Chapel Hill
UNC Wilmington (my sister goes here—second choice for in-state–decent film school)
Appalachian State University
East Carolina University (safety)
Out of state:
NYU
UCLA
Emerson
University of South Carolina (USC)
A few of my schools are incredible reaches, but I think I have a good list compiled. I hope. Changes will probably take place in over a year we have left.
@pseudoprimal Thank you (I applied to COSMOS UCSD)!
@pseudoprimal Hey, I visited Northwestern over break too!
I have absolutely no clue what my college list will look like; right now, I’m just focusing on finishing sophmore year with good grades. I have been to a bunch of colleges for swimming; I can say without a doubt that OSU’s swimming pool is the best I’ve ever seen.
@picuberoot Wow this is such a coincidence, but we were driving through Durham after visiting UNC today and I said that I preferred Duke because there was a Chipotle :P. Are you watching the championship, by chance?
UNC is completely flawless, however. I truly can’t think of a single thing that isn’t amazing about it. It’s close to home, the academics are great, the campus is BREATHTAKING, tons of school spirit, there’s a lot freedom, etc. My brother and I (we’re in the same grade) both loved it, which is impressive considering that we tend to value different things. I’m in Williamsburg right now and we’re going to WM tomorrow.
I don’t actually really have a list yet :P. Did y’all hear about the guy who got into all 8 Ivy League schools?