@frazzledazzle the deadline is the 15th of March!
Ugh… APUSH Socratic Seminar AND physics test tomorrow, back to back. Plus an acting scene, and AP Lang video, and a French project. Kill me now.
Finally finished a summer program application. Hopefully I can get the internship!
@minimango For what? SSP? I know for sure the YSPA application is due on Sunday the 5th.
Update: I just checked the SSP website and it for sure says that the deadline is March 3rd.
What does SSP stand for? We might be talking about different programs. @frazzledazzle
My first few summer programs will be responding sometimes soon (maybe this week?) [-O<
SSP is summer student program http://www.summerscience.org/
@minimango SSP is Summer Science Program. It is a summer program in astrophysics that now has a program in biochemistry.
@Soccer1235 Hopefully you receive good news! I won’t be finding out until April for both programs I applied to.
@LushLillies I too am a huge Impressionist fan, but my loyalties would lie with Post-Impressionism.
Also can’t say I’m a fan of Renoir. I find his overwhelmingly saccharine style tacky, for a lack of a better term. But I can see why he does have his fans. Monet, Caillebotte, Degas, and Pissarro would have to be my favorite Impressionist painters. Debussy easily tops my list for music.
I live in Boston, so if anybody has questions about Boston, don’t hesitate to inquire further. I can’t promise I’ll get back to you quickly, though.
Course selection just opened for me! It’s kinda weird to think that this is the last time that I’ll ever have to do this for high school. It feels like yesterday that I was choosing my freshman classes. I decided on
AP English Lit
AP Calc BC
AP Art History
German 3
Physics (no honors/AP at my school)
AP Psychology (1st semester)
Anatomy and Physiology (2nd semester)
With this I’ll have taken all of the AP classes at my school minus Calc AB, Environmental Science, Spanish, and Gov (for which I took a class at a college instead).
Guys, sometimes I wish my school was much harder than it actually is. Like, today, in a class of 20 juniors who take all honors classes, not one knew what a primary source document was. Our teacher was shocked that we hadn’t been introduced to using primary source documents until the second semester of junior year. In my school, the honors classes often have little homework and the students often feel as if they should have two months to read a 100 page novel (if that) and write less than a page about it. They get dates pushed back by slacking off and complaining to the teachers instead of being responsible. If I did not do an assignment, I expect a 0, not to get the due date pushed back by a week because I slacked off. Some students are extremely smart and work hard in every class, but others seriously make me want to pull my hair out. Sorry about my little rant, I just sometimes can’t believe that these students are allowed to be in honors classes.
@Wolfgangbread Have you visited Emerson or Simmons before? Those are both colleges in Boston that I’ve been considering.
@carmen00 Kids like that bother me a lot. My Latin class was full of them last year…
I got a job application today to be a cashier at a local pharmacy. Its only a 10 minute walk from where I live, so it would be great if I could work there! Plus I wouldn’t have to worry about paying for all my college apps and tests and whatnot.
I’m getting close to getting to choose my classes for next year and it seems like yesterday I was signing up for classes for junior year. My goal is to get as much college credits as possible and get a 4.8 GPA so I can graduate Summa Cum Laude.
Calc AB
AP Lit
AP Gov
Chemistry Honors
Nutrition Honors
Dual Credit Anatomy (1st Semester)
I don’t know what class I will take for the second semester but probably some easy honors course online
Also yesterday my class went to a field trip to a state school in my state. The visit to the college and talking to students there made me really excited for next year and the following years to come!
As for the summer I am shadowing my doctor in the afternoon for the month of June; for the whole summer I am working as a camp counselor. It’s a perfect job because I only work the morning or night and then have the other half off. This will allow me to work on my AP stuff and writing applications!
I’ve got 2.5/5 of my SSP essays done and it’s due in around 30 hours… yay. I have ideas for the other 2 though, so that’s good.
As soon as I finish this tomorrow, I should starts studying for the sat :)) and then later I’ll do my SAMS essays. My chances for that are probably really low cause I’m taking a long time to submit my supplements and it is on a rolling basis… oh well
You should apply for the Economics for Leaders program this summer! The deadline is March 15 so you might have to write your essay in a little bit of a hurry, but that is okay! I was accepted at the Brown location and I haven’t found anyone else that is going there!
@Soccer1235 I’m happy I could just copy-paste my essays from my YSPA ones and tweak them a little bit so I didn’t have to write all new essays. All I have to do is edit and submit them which I’ll do during study hall tomorrow. You applying to the astrophysics one? If so, which campus? I’m applying to the UC Boulder one.
Just found out that I’m not doomed for SAT reading, it’s just that my strategy of going at it previously was bad! Instead of doing the strategies here on CollegeConfidential, I simply read through passages quickly while highlighting in Khan (so underlining/circling IRL) the things in the passage that seemed important, then answer the questions. Now instead of typically getting 5/11 on Khan, I’m getting 10/11 or 11/11 
Who knew watching that KhanAcademy SAT Reading Class livestream actually helps…
@acomfysofa I went through something similar! I was always told to read the questions first and then skim the passage for answers, but that proved detrimental to my reading score on the ACT. I finished with 5 unanswered questions and got a 20. It works so much better for me to fully read the passage. That way, I completely know the context and can answer all the questions quickly and with only a few glances back to the passage. I’ve been doing great on practice tests doing that, and I think I did pretty decent on the actual test. I guess it goes to show that some strategies aren’t one size fits all.
My sat reading strategy is to skim the passage and then answer the questions. I used to read the whole passage, but I would get a different interpretation and would get the questions wrong. When I skim, I get a general idea of the passage and then use the line numbers in the questions to guide my answers.
I got denied from two summer programs today yay. Hopefully I have better luck on these next ones
So, apparently I have both an English test and a PreCalculus test on Monday and both a Physics test and a Biology test on Tuesday. RIP studying for SATs. But as a side note, my (Canadian) teachers are impressed at how I’m taking - what they call - ridiculously and unnecessarily hard standardized tests; more so than even the schools I’m applying to. One of the seniors I knew was initially looking at taking the SAT last semester, but then saw how thick the prep book was when he got it in the mail and said “nope”.
Just curious, do your Math and English classes in the US set aside time to prepare for the SAT? Or are you suppose to study it on your own?