Wow you guys have some really awesome and developed views on all of this… I just feel really thankful to be in a position where I can give back. I always try to strive to be a leader and a military academy feels like an perfect opportunity to not only train those skills, but serve my country and take advantage of an opportunity that really had no equals. I mean the free tuition, job security, and quality education are great but I guess what I’m concerned about at the end of the day is if I’m doing it for the right reasons.
anyone watching super tuesday coverage? pretty interesting stuff haha
@gormar099 As much as I try, I can generate 0 interest
Why not keep a forum interesting with a debate? It’s entertaining whether you’re involved or witnessing. And, no. Your views on world peace do not offend me. I was simply countering your point. @ak2018
@reid799 Well thank you. And if you do happen to join the military, then I would like to thank you in advance.
@Hamlon,@NYUhopefull I’m ok with aiming high,I mean I’m aiming for NYU Stern(not a UC BTW and rumored to have and acceptances to this school are much more competitive then NYU). But the reason I like the UC’s so much is because they’re right by me and I can get a good education at a solid price and I have countless friends that currently go there and I like the possibility of meeting new people while still having close friends from high school to hang out with. And I was just wondering why everyone only looks at top 20 schools with lower then 10 % acceptance rates i mean everyone can do what they want but me personally think those kinds of lists aren’t balanced and they seem unrealistic but to each his own. That does not make me elitist how does me saying that everyone is unrealistic about their college options make me an elitist, UCLA a much less prestigious school then harvard or yale is somewhere I feel is a slight reach for me, so I’m acknowledging that I’m not perfect in doing so. If I was an elitist I would be saying I’m applying to schools such and such but you all have no such chance I’ve never done that
@Hamlon I have many low-income friends and would love to see them go to college my thread was to simply question if colleges got any commercial benefits from doing so in the near future. Because colleges have shown to me many times that they are a business in the way they run their operations so I was simply wondering if there were any economic benefits to admitting low-income students that is all
@nyuhopefull44 you may have better grades then me I mean i only have like a 3.7 unweighted GPA through high school but I think I have good test scores so far(1440 on the PSAT I did study for the math section however). But i never meant to say that my college list was better then yours simply to question if you have a balanced list of schools that does not make me better just different.
@ak2018 I understand your decision to be neutral.
@BucketsUCSC It’s fine. Let’s just leave this all behind.
@gormar099 I’m following it and can only hope Bernie can recover. [-O<
@BucketsUCSC The endowment of a place like Harvard is comparable to the five year budget of some countries. Their continued existence as a deeply respected and world-famous institution depends on successful alumni.
The kids most likely to succeed during and after time in higher ed. are those with experience really working for what they want. Even if it represents some inital loss, the future returns of taking on a high-achieving low-income student may be outstanding.
Many public universities also use full-paying international and out-of-state students to give you your affordable education. That profit has to come from somewhere.
hm that makes sense @OMPursuit . I was wondering if the sheer amount of financial aid they give can be balanced out by the potential endowment payoff. However, i guess it does given how need blind harvard is yet still has one of the largest endowments.
If anyone is going to the TN stuco thing this weekend, PM me lmao
Well I just planned my schedule for next year with my counselor, and I honestly don’t know what to say. I was basically forced into AP Economics, instead of AP Psychology and I still am a little unsure of whether or not I should do AP English Lang or not next year. I’m going to talk to my English teacher after 4th period and see what he thinks as he recommended me for AP English Lang. The way my counselor explained the difference is that AP Lang focuses on writing, while AP Lit focuses on reading and interpretation. I feel I would like AP Lit more as reading analysis and interpretation Is more of my thing. I’m a good writer, but I just don’t like writing that much. I could just read some of the books over the summer senior year. So here’s my schedule, as of now:
US and VA History
Functions/Trigonometry (Pre-Calculus)
AP Chemistry
Engineering Explorations/Robotics
Spanish II
AP Economics
English 11
At this point, I’m fine with the whole Econ thing as I was eventually going to do it. I guess I’ll just do it sooner rather than later. It is a combo of two AP’s, AP Micro and AP Macro, so that should be okay. I think AP Chem is going to be challenging though. What are your thoughts?
@ak2018 the way I understand it, isn’t AP Psychology one of your electives? Why would you be forced into AP Econ?
I think you’ll do fine in AP English lang because your teacher recommended you. They wouldn’t have given you a recommendation if they felt you wouldn’t be successful. AP lang is usually taken by Juniors and Lit Seniors. Three AP classes would be very manageable for a Junior.
@ak2018
Anyone have to read Their Eyes Were Watching God for English? It’s one of those books that’s so bad it’s funny
@nyuhopeful44 No I don’t, never heard of it actually.
(to everyone) Oh, and I know that everyone was putting their list down. I just wanted to say that the list I wrote, was a list of DREAM schools. I see no point in putting my saftey and matches, cause that will get me distracted from my dream. I was the person who wrote these schools:
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lehigh
Carnegie Mellon
University of Connecticut Honors
My required reading:
Summer- The Dante Club and Life of Pi
School- Tale of Two Cities, A Dolls House, Cyrano de Bergerac, Catcher in the Rye, Julius Caesar, and Oedipus
@reidd799 we have The Crucible, To Kill a Mockingbird, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and The Great Gatsby. I’m taking American Literature which is the standard 10th grade english class at my school
I’ll list mine too because why not:
9th - The Odyssey (WHHHYYYY), 1984, Escape from Camp 14, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
10th - The Crucible, Macbeth, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby
I feel like the books I read last year were harder than this year’s. :s