@ak2018 I think that’s a good plan! Building up your score slowly over time is a sound strategy. I’ve got to start using Khan Academy.
My first day is of school is August 31st, but for teachers its August 29th.
Here are our breaks:
Labor Day - September 5th
Rosh Hashanah - October 3rd
Columbus Day - October 10th
Random Day Off - October 11th
Yom Kippur - October 12th
Election Day - November 8th
Thanksgiving Recess - November 24th - 25th
Holiday Recess - December 26th - January 2nd
Martin Luther King Day - January 16th
Winter Recess - February 20th - 21st
Spring Recess - April 10th - 14th
Memorial Day - May 29th
And then the last day of school is June 13th. We get a lot of breaks, now that I look at it all. :o
We a Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur off due to the large Jewish population of the town, which I’m part of, so its pretty nice. We also used to get Veterans Day off, but then the local veterans spoke up and said they wanted students to go to school.
Also, does anyone else here use PrepScholar? It tells the average GPA and test scores of the most recent class. I’ve used it obsessively…
@ak2018 I like your goal of 1300, but I don’t think that it is fair for yourself to be so harsh on a practice test. Just my opinion but I TOTALLY understand where your coming from. Just let your score increase naturally, and you’ll definitely see change!
@LeopardFire I’m going to visit UCONN pretty soon, are you? Its in our home state.
@apple1893 Do you mean a tour, or just to visit? I’ve been there several times since my parents are alumni, I’ll probably go once or twice over the summer. I’ll most likely go on a tour next summer.
Instruction Begins - Wednesday, September 21
Veterans’ Day Holiday - Friday, November 11
Thanksgiving Holiday - November 23-25
Winter Break - December 12-January 9
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Holiday - Monday, January 16
Presidents’ Day Holiday - Monday, February 20
Spring Break - Friday, March 24-April 3
Memorial Day Holiday - Monday, May 29
Last Day of Spring Quarter - Friday, June 16
super long winter break! And winter and spring breaks fall at the end of quarters so I have finals before break and no studying for school over break!
Did you guys know you can make a common app account even if you’re not a rising senior and look at the information you’ll be required to put? I just made one and the reporting of activities is kinda interesting.
@snowfairy137 I made an account last week! It keeps all the information you put in (except financial info, essays, etc) and I’m really grateful for the preview. The essays come out really early (January?), so someone could have almost a year to work on them (definitely wouldn’t be me because I procrastinate and I want to apply EA anyways).
I just found out that restrictive early action is a thing. Schools like Stanford, Yale, and Wellesley make exceptions for you to apply to other schools EA/ED as long as they are not other private universities. State schools and foreign institutions are the most common exceptions. It depends though. Georgetown lets you apply to any other school EA, but not ED and other tiny details like that. One question. Is anyone planning/considering ED? I’m not a fan of the binding thing, but does that appeal to one of you guys?
@snowfairy137 ED isn’t really binding. You can choose to accept it or not, but the catch is that you can’t compare different financial aid awards between different schools because the window for acceptance is very small and early. I’d like to apply ED to Vanderbilt because the acceptance ED is 24% but the acceptance RD is 8.9%
Alright so in the reading section you know how there are easy passages and hard passages like the ones from the 1700s or 1900:…? Which one would you say to do first the easy passages or hard passages first? Remember time is the essence
I agree with @nyuhopeful44. If every question is worth equal amount of points then it makes sense to get all the easy ones and then try the hard questions. If you were to spend extra time on the hard ones you might not even get a lot of them and run out of time and not have the opportunity to get to the easy questions throwing away free points.
@Soccer1235 I’m pretty sure that if you’re accepted early decision you’re legally required to withdraw all other applications and go to the school that accepted you.
@snowfairy137 I want to, but I’m afraid to give my address. I don’t want them to send me stuff… I’m also paranoid something will happen if I make an account early, though I know they all get deleted each year anyway. ^^’
I started using Khan Academy to practice for the PSAT. Today was reading/writing, my strong point, so I actually enjoyed it. I’m not looking forward to the math sections, but I’d rather struggle now than later.
@snowfairy137 that’s only if you accept it. You can deny it if you believe the financial aid is too low, and that is subjective, so technically if you change your mind and you get accepted, you can claim to not have enough FA and not accept it.
OK so I’m at the library and my manager literally asked me at 2:50pm if I could fill in a shift at the library from 3-6pm and I happily accepted on such short notice. I was partnered with a girl that went to my middle school. Once I was on the clock, I was barking out orders left and right. I’m honestly proud of myself. I was such a leader. I didn’t need any help either and I made cute little jokes with the kids. My partner was really great to. We started to talk about the school she goes to, which is my base school, and compared it to mine. She literally just confirmed how hard the IB program is. They literally had to do an individual project for English, that could’ve been done about anything, that took half the year to complete and they were required to write a 2-paged essay every month displaying their progress. She laughed when I whispered “Damn” under my breath. We also talked about the whole Black Expo thing that happened at my school that everyone either loved or hated. She honestly doesn’t know how so many in-the-closet racists can exist in one school. She literally said, “Just because people preach black excellence, doesn’t mean they are automatically antiwhite or anticop.”
There’s always one kid in each of our classes that has a uber-racist. I was talking to one of my friends about this one small kid who honestly said the most awful things, under his breath, to almost anyone that wasn’t white who was in her class. When her teacher asked the class, when they had doughnuts, “Do you think it would be fair to give those who are fasting for Ramadan a doughnut first IF they were allowed to break their fast?” and he was the only one who said no. He even made this really crappy joke about the Black Expo under his breath. He was like “You want a Black Expo, I’ll give you a Black Expo” and he proceeded to pull out a Black Expo Marker. The amount of times that joke had been said at our school is countless. It was all over Twitter and was trending on Twitter here in my county. It’s kind of funny, the school that needed the expo the most hates it and now all of the other schools in my county want one next year.
We also used to get Veterans Day off, but then the local veterans spoke up and said they wanted students to go to school.