@greeneggsandsam9 I probably will go to a couple in Pennsylvania and New York because every summer I go to my grandmother’s lake house in upstate New York so I’ll go to a couple on my way up and back. I’m going to try to convince my parents to take a slight detour (haha more like a couple hours) to Rochester because I really want to visit University of Rochester and RIT.
also I love UMD- I went to a sophomore and junior visit day there and there were a lot of cool information session thingys!
@greeneggsandsam9 There is a chance that I’m going to visit my mother’s alma mater and other northeast colleges this summer, but nothing’s set in stone.
@iamnotironman Ah, University of Rochester. I hear enough about that college (thanks, dad), but very good things.
I’m going to UCD’s Picnic Day this Saturday, if that counts.
I won’t be going anywhere except Stanford, and I’ve been there enough times to make it not at all novel (although the campus is gorgeous).
haha, I can bike to Stanford from my school if I wanted to
That and UC Berkeley are the only colleges that I have been to
@pseudoprimal yeah! I’m debating whether to go into AP Physics 1 (with no prior physics experience) or AP Chemistry (with minimal chemistry knowledge). I think for me, AP Physics Junior year and AP Chem senior year would be good, because I can sporadically study chemistry during junior year so I’ll be better prepared senior year. @KE3299 Ah okay good! That relieves my nerves a bit.
@sprights AP Physics 1 is designed to be a course that you do not need prior physics knowledge for, AP Chem is a class that (at least in most schools) taking with no prior knowledge would mean a death sentence for your GPA. I certainly know thats the case in my school at least haha.
@Cornbread1999 I feel you. Berkeley is a BART ride away from me, and Stanford a pretty short drive. I’ve been to Davis and UCSD before, though.
I’ve been to UCLA on a field trip, UCI for a math competition, and UCSD for a summer program. UCSD is the closest to me but it’s still 1+ hours away driving.
I got into UCSC COSMOS (Number Theory and Discrete Math)! I probably won’t be attending, though, since I got into the other program.
@topaz1116 congrats, even still!
And I hope you other COSMOS kids recieved good news today 
Aw, too bad you’re not going to COSMOS. COSMOS is a pretty good program, (UCSD is the best campus by the way), but the other one you got into is probably pretty good too…
Yeah, and the other one is free (versus our having to pay $3000+ for it). I’d love to go to either (and I’m glad I have the choice, since so many don’t), but if I have to choose between the two, I choose Stanford (barring the obvious reasons, I also get to present my research at the American Geophysical Union and stuff).
Oh wow, if it’s free I can see why you’d want to go. It sounds pretty cool.
Tomorrow there’s gonna be a practice AP Lang exam for free and I signed up for it. But now I don’t want to go. This has happened before, I sign up for tests and stuff like that and then I decide I don’t want to go. For example, I signed up for the ACS (American Chemical Society?) exam, and I even played five dollars for it. I also told my parents to pick me up late from school so I could take it. Then I got scared and took the bus home instead. The teacher thought I forgot and gave me back my money. There was also a $10 SAT/ACT hybrid exam that I signed up for, and then I didn’t take it. It’s not the actual test that scares me, it’s the people. And I don’t even know why, I mean, I go to school with these people everyday. Why am I so scared now? I guess I’ll have to pretend to forget about tomorrows practice test too. Why must I be so afraid of everything? And what will happen when I need to take the SAT? Will I “forget” about that too?
I feel you. I’m currently doing this free prep class hosted by PR, and on my first day I was so nervous because of the people that were going to be there. (well lets be honest, I hate the SAT, it scares me too) but it feels weird being surrounded by kids who probably have much higher scores than me. 
@dsi411
@sprights @dsi411 Wow same. First and second quarter pre-calc I had a 90 and 86 (yeesh) because I am in a class with a lot of juniors and people I don’t really know. I was able to just tune everybody out and I got a 99 third quarter. I guess you should just try to ignore everybody and focus on yourself if that helps.
Okay, so it’s not just me. That makes me feel a bit better.
Unless I’m with actual friends, I hate going for things as well.