@ak2018 I would suggest you self-study anyway to get the college credit. It could save u a lot of money
That is true @nyuhopeful44 But there isn’t that much I could self-study that could go towards my degree.
I just received 6 college letters in the mail. In one day. How ridiculous and how spammy.
@HelloThereHola I received 4 in one day. It’s insane!
I got more midterm grades back!! I’m really happy with how they went!
History: 104
AP Biology: 83 (most of my class scored 79 or 75)
Math: 93.3
French: 92
I’m still waiting on Band and English.
@HelloThereHola @frazzledazzle For anyone that wants to receive college mail from only the colleges they want, I think I have the solution. I was talking to this guy on the Virginia Tech forum who has some great tips for anyone wanting to receive E-mails from a specific college
You Google “request info” + [name of college]
You can do that for every college you’re interested in.
Here:
http://www.inventyourfuture.vt.edu/request-information/
(Note that you may receive brochures in the mail, but those are subcontracted by VTech to a third party (business that sends brochures for them to every student who reached a certain level on the PSAT). VTech wouldn’t know you got those brochures and so it wouldn’t “count as interest”. What would count as “interest” is receiving one of those brochures and emailing to ask a question based on what you read… or filling out the “request info” form due to the automatic mailing.
I would highly recommend creating a second E-mail address.
Also, some tips for if you want to gain some brownie points with professors at the school. I would highly recommend reading your school’s newsletter. If you want to go above and beyond, I would read the newsletter and, if it peaks your interest, E-mail the professor. Get your name is his or her head!
^it’s very “normal” if you’re a competitive applicant.
There’s also a “VTech Daily News” newsletter, to which you can subscribe for free, and would give you all kinds of good info to feed your stem curiosity, and it’d be fodder to ask questions. Some questions can go to admissions (“I saw in the Daily Newsletter dated … that Pr. X conducts research on …, do you know if s/he takes on undergraduate assistants?” “DO you have a summer science program for high school students and if so, does it cover … that I saw in the newsletter/on your website?)
You can email professors, too, as long as your email is polite, to the point, and meaningful (ie., Dear Pr.W, My name is ZX and I’m a sophomore from Farmville, VA. I saw in the Vtech Daily Newsletter that you were working on … and I had a few questions: …? …? I would be most grateful if you could answer, or if a graduate student working for you could answer. Thank you. Sincerely, ZX.” You can, of course, keep the correspondence if need be. When admission time comes, you can report all this, and it’ll make for a memorable “Why Vtech essay”.
(Note that “Why VTech” is NOT supposed to be why VTech is the greatest college ever. This, they already know, or see you as an applicant would think. The essay isn’t about them - it’s about you. What about you makes VTech a perfect match for each other? What have you done that correlates with what they offer and thus would allow you take your work to the next level? What interests you in science, what have you done to prove it, and how does it relate to what is going on at Vtech’s labs?.. etc.)
I’m definitely going to do this! I’m just gonna do it for every college I want to apply to.
@ak2018 That is actually not that bad of an idea! I just might try that some time. I have only gotten one letter from Thomas college and I don’t even know how they got my address and stuff. It was very weird and I never even considered going there.
@tonyk16 Yeah!
've gotten mail from a bunch of colleges but for some reason i’ve gotten 15 mails from The university of arizona alone
Is all the mail because of the PSAT? I haven’t taken that yet and I’ve only gotten one letter from the university of oregon. Most of my stuff are summer programs at ivies that cost a billion dollars
I don’t know where that might be from @nyuhopeful44
@ak2018 I started doing that in the past few days! The only school I still have to opt-in for is MIT, and I’m doing that later today.
@tonyk16 I’m not even considering the schools I get PSAT-induced mail from. Only the schools I like.
@nyuhopeful44 I received most of my mail because of the PSAT. I’ve only received mail because I opted in from Whitman and Dartmouth at this point, but that’s going to increase soon.
So I got an 8/10 on my algebra 2 quiz… I hate when quizzes are out of 10!
@apple1983 Those are the worst ever! My Geometry teacher did that last year and it was annoying.
anyonr in WHAP have any tips for me to get a 9 on my dbq because i’ve been consistently getting 7’s but i want to figure out how to crack a 9
@BucketsUCSC I don’t know how to get a 9, but I’ve gotten a few 8’s by doing more points of view then what’s required.
@frazzledazzle How is it? How many e-mails have you been getting?
Confession: I love getting all this college mail.
I know it’s all the same generic letter, and they really just want my money, but it still makes me feel special.
Same @wonderfulreads But wouldn’t it eventually get annoying?
ALSO NO SCHOOL TOMORROW OR Wednesday! AND A TWO-HOUR DELAY THURSDAY! Lol I haven’t been to school since last Wednesday. I kind of want to go back! I want to pick my courses already! They better extend the quarter though, because I need to get my grades up ASAP!
How many of you have officially pick your courses for next year, as in SAT down with a counselor and picked them?