YesReneau is good, but she’s already graduated from Harvard. Her videos from a few years ago about the admissions process and her time at Harvard are very good!
@ivakk I subscribed to Markian the other day and I’ve been subscribed to Annemarie for a while now.
@snowfairy137 I’m going to try to visit some Boston area schools over spring break. I just need to convince my mom to let us go down there a few days early (we’re going to Boston on a youth orchestra trip and will be there the day after for the scientists’ march). I plan on visiting (hopefully) BU, Harvard, MIT, and NEC.
I have nothing saved to pay for college, so if I don’t get good financial aid I will probably have to take out loans.
@LeopardFire Money is one of my top priorities as well. It is second only to if the school has my major(s) or not.
@nyuhopeful44 your school seems like they have some cool classes
I also have a huge dilemma related to paying for college. I have absolutely no idea how much my parents make and they refuse to tell me. I have asked multiple times, but they brush it off or flat out say it is none of my business. I really need to know before applying to colleges because I do not want a mountain of debt. Both of them went to college for free so they can’t really relate to my anxiety. I think that I will just apply to my state flagship and hope for merit scholarships to roll in
I’m personally pretty lucky that my parents plan to help pay for most of my college tuition so I could potentially get my Masters. I’m obviously going to get a job so that they aren’t fully paying for everything. I just don’t want the burden of my college tuition to be all on them. If I’m lucky, I might be able to save enough money to get my own car and have at least 80% of my tuition paid before I graduate. I might tried to get a paid-internship or research position, if possible. Since I’m planning on going for a Masters, if possible, my tuition’s going to be higher.
If I’m capable, I might try and create a college vlog of my own one day.
Also, for those applying to SAMS, there is a rolling acceptance basis. I’m trying to get my application done this weekend.
So, I have course registration on Thursday. Today invitations for various classes were being given out to students with “potential for success” and I was one of only 47 students out of 2400 that received an invitation for AP Computer Science Principles. I’m really hoping we get enough of them to sign up so I can take this class next year! [-O<
@LisaM yeah my school does have some cool classes. If u want to know what your parents make, you could just google “annual salary for (insert job here)”
@LisaM in the same boat as you with my parents refusing to let me know how much they make. Considering I need to pay for my own college, I feel as if I should at least have a ballpark number of how much we make. No one in my family has gone to college before, so they really do not understand how frustrating this is for me. I just want to know how much financial aid I should expect.
@LisaM Have you considered the Early College Scholars Program? I know you live nearby and thought it might be perfect for you. The program is basically just an agreement that you plan to take around 4 AP classes by the end of senior year and get at least a three or higher on the AP exams. You’ll likely need to talk to your guidance counselor about whether or not they will allow you to take any of the AP classes (the program is more meant to give students in rural Virginia and in small schools the ability to take AP classes online), but the benefit of the program is the ability to take AP classes online, allowing you to free up your schedule take more classes (any class you want). I have heard, however, that it is quite the time-commitment, approximately 1.5 hours/day on each course. I would definitely consider it. I’m taking a course with them through Virtual Virginia.
What do you to happen to mean by my parents went to college for free?
Also, my parents used to be the exact same way. But now that I’m getting closer to college, they’re opening up more.
@nyuhopeful44 my mom has a very unique job so there is no set salary. I have tried the googling method with my dads more traditional job to no avail.
@carmen00 I don’t even know if I have to pay. I wish you good luck!
@ak2018 That sounds like a great program! I do have an account with Virtual Virginia, but I am so busy after school, especially during the first quarter. Sometimes I am not home until 10pm so I don’t thing that would work with the schedule. My parents both come from Tanzania where college used to be free if you did a year of military service.
Guys good news! I got the email from the Hamilton Scholars Admissions and I’m a finalist! I’m one of the 70 applicants left in what they described as one of their “most competitive application cycles” they have ever had! I signed up for my phone interview, so now I just have to wait until March 13th to talk to 2 representatives from the program for a half hour haha I don’t even know what I would talk about! Either way, after the interviews, 70 finalists become 35 scholars, and I’m super nervous…
@LisaM omg same. I finally got my dad to tell me though and I’m like “oh.” Well I’m not getting financial aid at all. Also, why is my phone a piece of crap? @ak2018 Its going ok. I’ve gotten everything done on time but I procrastinate so bad like I have an essay I haven’t started due in 3 hours @LeopardFire hopefully!
Does anyone have advice about app essays/short responses? I’m trying to get my YSPA and SSP short responses done and I’m finding it more difficult than I thought. With only a few short weeks to get my applications done (they’re due March 5th and March 3rd), I’m starting to freak out. Eeeekkkkkk
@frazzledazzle I would say the best thing I can tell you is not to write them too formally. Since they are 300 - 600 word essays, you don’t really have that much room to break them up into paragraphs.
Just heard teachers here are going on a full strike starting Friday, so there’s no school, period :((. Hopefully it doesn’t go on for too long, else I’m not sure what it will mean for graduations…
I’d rather be here than the Class of 2019, no offense to the sophomores!
Hey can anyone give me some tips to raise my science ACT score? When I took the real ACT w/o studying I got a 28, then with studying I got a 31 but my science score didn’t change at all. I always run out of time and have to guess on a passage or two.
So today I signed up for the Annual Student Leadership Conference at GMU in Manassas. I’m signed up for the following three sessions:
Power Players and Dream Internships (11:30am - 12:45pm)
Black and Hispanic Male Achievement - The Path Beyond College (1:15pm - 2:30pm)
Engineering Win-Win Solutions “For-All” (2:40pm - 3:35pm)
So essentially, the event brings students from all over my county who have shown interest in leadership. Through the sessions, we are talked to by local leaders and activists about things that matter to us. It’s supposed to spark the “leader” in all of us. I might change up the sessions because I was made to choose them quickly. The conference is on March 14 from 9am - 4pm, so I get to miss school to go! :))
@acomfysofa Is there any way you could take classes online?
I know that the teachers likely want higher pay, but why can’t they do it in a way that doesn’t affect the students’ learning? I mean, I really do love my teachers and think highly of them, but, for the most part, they are really only the middle man. The way I see it, there’s the information out their in the world and there’s us, the students. Then, in the middle, are the teachers. Although they can help us with many things, there are also many other ways to get the information you need (I.e. self-studying). They are there to help, but sometimes helping yourself isn’t such a bad idea.
Hey guys! I am looking at summer pre college programs now and I was wondering if they help when it comes to applying to the college. Also, My top choice is UCLA and I would love go attend one of their summer institutes but my parents are super against sending me to UCLA because it is on the west coast so they dont want me to attend the summer program.