@GrandBudapest: I’d ignore her. She isn’t worth your time. Avoid her as much as you can within your extracurriculars, and try to display your passion for them–if she’s doing them just to spite you, she definitely won’t seem motivated.
It’s normal to experience competitive feelings; hell, I hate people I’ve never even met. And when you go to a competitive high school, it often seems like everyone around you is so much better than you are. However, know this: you bring something to the table that she doesn’t. Whether it’s in your passion or your other extracurriculars (hey, do something you love! start something you love! don’t let anything hold you back), you will stand out to colleges. Don’t worry about her, worry about yourself.
Colleges say there’s no harm in two people from the same school applying, either. And for all they know, if they only have one or two comparison points, the other people could be geniuses.
And you’ve shown improvement in your GPA, so colleges won’t hold it against you as much as they would if you consistently got low grades. You’ll be fine. Don’t worry.
I should have taken AP Bio, but I love physics, so I decided to take AP Physics instead. Turns out I a) have horrible luck when testing projects, and b) can’t answer multiple choice for… well, an expletive goes here. I’m just hoping that my deficits rectify themselves before the final next Thursday.
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) in a few weeks and need to ask my Lit. teacher for a recommendation letter tomorrow. I don’t even speak up or participate in her class! I feel as if everything I interpret ends up being wrong! And when I do talk, half the time people don’t even understand what I say (possibly due to enunciation problems). This is one of the main reasons I want to attend an LAC – a nurturing, discussion-based, and smaller-sized class will do me wonders, I think.