Increase chances at Emory (sophomore)

needtosucceed27
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:32:53 +0000

@ab2002 You’re welcome for the advice?? I know you’re not just focusing on Emory, but the fact that you made a thread titled “Increase chances at Emory” shows that one of your main focuses is Emory. I know you didn’t say NHS was significant…not sure how that really adds to this conversation, but I just mentioned that in case you didn’t know. I searched up PSAT score percentiles and it came up with 86th (I didn’t estimate). I didn’t know it was actually the 92nd percentile; that’s a bit better, but you should still start prep. I didn’t say that your extracurriculars “aren’t that strong”. I literally said “Your extracurriculars seem okay” since I’m not that knowledgeable about political science. Don’t say that I said certain things when I never said them. You make it seem as if I am insulting you or putting down your scores and extracurriculars when I clearly was NOT. I also have established my extracurriculars; I’m in five clubs and I plan on sticking with them throughout high school. Poly Sci is an appropriate way of shortening Political Science too. To be honest, you were being quite rude. It’s not too hard to take peoples’ advice instead of contradicting everything we say. I did not say most of the things that you claimed I said. There is a fine line between being brutally honest and being rude, and you were leaning towards being rude.

@bernie12 Agreed. I also think that clubs aren’t that important, unless you’ve accomplished things in them and/or have attained leadership positions. @ab2002 definitely needs to research and look into political science more. I also couldn’t tell if you were being sarcastic about the 1450 percentile? I searched it up just so she could see the percentile jump she’d have to make to reach a 1450 SAT and how that would be pretty difficult to do (since there’s no PSAT to SAT conversion).