My schools I’m looking at are Vandy, Duke, Cornell, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Case Western, Notre Dame, and WUSTL. Good safety schools for me are Penn State and Maryland.
Ugh I am so done with school. I have 9 days left and we are still learning stuff in Spanish 
My top schools I want to apply to are UVA and Georgetown. My Ivy-League reach is Columbia, although I’m not all focused on going there. Would be nice though. 
lol when rankings come out for my graduating class, I’m pretty sure that my school will fall off the rankings lol
My top schools are UC Berkeley, UCLA, CalTech, (Ivies are a reach), Carnegie Mellon, (Stanford and MIT which are also reaches)
are you guys going to take the new SAT or the old SAT next year?
I don’t know, I want to take both but I’ll probably get lazy and do only one.
Hey all I hope everyone has had a wonderful sophomore year. Has anyone taken any standardized tests yet? If so, how’d it go? Good luck to everyone for junior year hahaha I am already stressed about it…
@shussain2 Might retake old
@Isalck32 Okay…
SAT: 2270
ACT: 35
SAT Bio and Chem: 800
I am in the Class Of 2017! We are the greatest! 
@Frigidcold what are you talking about? Your stats are amazing!
@shussain2 Oh, I was mainly saying that the studying and stuff was boring 
@Frigidcold You got a full score on the SAT Subject tests for Bio and Chem? wow! Which colleges are you looking forward to attend?
@AnniiT My list right now is Duke, JHU, Northwestern, UVA, UNC, Emory, and Rutgers. No Ivies for me because I’ll probably end up going to med school and I don’t want to be swimming in debt.
@Frigidcold Nice choices! Anyway, I am looking forward to attend medical school as well and some of the ivy leagues have very good medical schools. However, I feel as if my chances of getting accepted are very low due to the lack of extracurricular activities I have.
I’m taking the SAT Chem (and Math 2, but Math 2 is easy and I don’t care) in a week and I’m stressing out. Maybe it’s just Barron’s, but the practice tests are really annoying…
@AnniiT Well, for med school I’ll definitely apply to the Ivies because the prestige of med school will count for far more than the prestige of undergraduate. Just hoping to save money by taking full ride undergraduate so maybe I can come out of med school debt free. As for your lack of extracurriculars, I’m sure you’re overexaggerating.
@topaz1116 Taking Math II in a week and for me, Math II is significantly harder than Chem. Probably because I took AP Chem this year and Precalc like 3 years ago.
@Frigidcold ahh. I’m in Precalc right now, and I’ve barely touched (read: I took the diagnostic test) the book for Math 2. I’m in Honors Chem right now, so that could be a factor in my unpreparedness. I hope that I’ll do well on the subject test, though; I have yet to take the official College Board practice test (since I only have one), but it’s said to be far easier than Barron’s.
Hey guys, class of 2017 here. This is the first time I’m writing on here, I mostly just stalk everyone else’s comments.
I feel like things are really speeding up, because junior yr is the last yr before college admissions!!
IM SO FREAKIN WORRIED ABOUT MY GPA!! :(( By the end of junior yr it’ll be a 3.85 :(( :(( I hope I get a 2200+ on the SAT, so I’m getting the new blue book as soon as it gets out. What really sucks tho, is that I feel like I’ll be unfairly compared to other students when applying bc of my gpa. My school is seriously SO FREAKIN HARD. AP classes are a requirement and it’s an all IB school. Freshman yr all incoming freshmen are automatically signed up for APUSH and honors classes. Sophomore yr all sophomores are automatically signed up for AP lang, AP world, and honors classes. Junior yr everyone’s does IB (and takes the AP test for the classes). So by senior yr, I should have 11 APs. It’s a charter school tho, so the students chose to go there.
But seriously how the heck does a school like that compare to easier schools where it’s easier to get a 4.0 gpa??? I mean if you look at The Washington Post’s article on the most challenging high schools in the country, my school is on there. At least I know I’ll get into my state school bc the favor my school (since it’s one of the best in the country and the best in the state)…but still :((
@ZBlue17 How do you do compared to everyone else? If you’re ranked first with a 3.85, they’ll know the rigor of your school.
I’m limiting myself to 12 schools. My school is small tho, about 360 students in all 4 grades, so there are not that many teachers. Not sure how I’m going to get all the letters of rec I’ll need.
I’ll apply to 3 safeties, 4 matches, and 5 reaches. What about u guys?