<p>I think stanford is turned off by people who “count” community service hours. Maybe you like to give back to the community, but there’s a different way to show passion other than counting hours</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, just dont list the hours on there. I didnt, so the adcoms have no way of knowing if I did 60 or 600. Theyll just think I forgot to mention it on my long list of community service activities.</p>
<p>As several ppl have said already, you can’t predict your stats. Top students in middle school become mediocre students. On the other hand, ppl with mediocre grades in middle school might end up becoming valedictorian in high school. It’s all up to you. Your “predicted stats” can be your goals for high school instead. But before the challenges of high school set in, just sit back and relax.</p>
<p>Forgottenhawk is right about high school. My high school is notorious for the amounts of homework. Like how college students don’t go to all of their classes, high school students don’t do all of their hw. The situation is so serious here that today, my AP Chemistry teacher told us that half of our class owes him problem sets or lab writeups.</p>
<p>Finally, you might want to check this out:
<a href=“You’ve requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News”>You’ve requested a page that no longer exists | Stanford News;
Stanford Commencement address by Steve Jobs.</p>
<p>ahh… steve job’s commencement speech at the stanford ceremony is memorable, that’s truly a fascinating life story</p>
<p>but not nearly as funny as conan o’brian’s commencement speech for harvard, that’s a must-read for everyone :)</p>
<p>C’mon guys, it’s obviously some random guy pulling a prank. Besides, if it was a real 8th grade boy posting on this site, I don’t think he’d use a stupid user name like “8thgradeboy1”…think about it. You’re only an “8th grade boy” for a year; what do you do after that? Change your user name to 9th grade boy?</p>
<p>nah, I think it’s true (he’s real)…I mean the entire conversation from his side sounds too immature to be any older than 8th grade.</p>
<p>how can you say that YOU will lead your high school team to 4 straight championships, and also be captain. I do not know very many freshman who make captain their first year. I live next to Harvard-Westlake High School, who has one of the strongest high school basketball programs in the country. Four sons of NBA players/coaches go their. They win state or sectional champs every year. Not one of them has ever been all American, and of the three kids who applied to Stanford from the basketball team, only one got in, and he was not recruited. All american is not things easy to do. Most all americans could dunk in 6th grade, and are close to 7 feet tall… You need to focus on things that you can change, like grades and a job, not a fantasy</p>
<p>anyway, you need a team to win a championship, not one good player.</p>
<p>hahaha this is the funniest post ever</p>
<p>please, live ur life, and dont even think about college till at most soph year</p>
<p>please lol</p>
<p>6’3" and you havent yet hit puberty???
your gonna have a frickin huge pen15</p>
<p>haha…now don’t corrupt the little 8th grader…hehe</p>
<p>hahahaha the guy said the thread was closed and stopped posting and everyone keeps on posting</p>
<p>well i will succumb to my own criticism. i go to lynbrook and i assume u go to miller. yeah we have a decent bball team, not too good, not too bad. no way u will take our team to a state championship. if u can even take our team to ccs (central coast section) that’s pretty good. but seriously, second to everything everyone has said.</p>
<p>this thread reminds me of the iwannagoivy thread. that was hilarious lol</p>
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<p>One of last year’s valedictorians at our school got 5’s on like nine (all, I believe) of her AP exams … and most were independent study. She got into Harvard, of course.</p>
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<p>I loved Conan before I read it, but after I read it, I totally worshipped him. It also (kind of) made up for the fact that I felt adequate to him in EVERYTHING after I found out he went to Harvard.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I’m yet another Asian who thought she would ace high school. I wore my Stanford sweater in eighth grade, thinking I was gonna get in for sure … and then, like everyone has already said, I got to high school. I actually feel pretty stupid for working so hard in middle school because IMO it really didn’t help … I should have lived it up in middle school and started working my butt off in hs.</p>
<p>But just in case your basketball doesn’t work out, definitely keep up your academics, and find another passion too, something not physical.</p>
<p>is this kid for real?</p>
<p>yeah dude ur whack</p>
<p>Kids like you commit suicide during high school for getting a B in class, so I suggest you just chill out. Whatever is going to happen will happen, so no reason to fret over it.</p>
<p>ok kid wow, if you’re for real then i feel really bad for you
just how exactly do you plan to balance all of this? you know if you’re gonna be that good in bball ur gonna have practice like everyday and games, so how do u plan to do those 2000 community service hours?
think reality!</p>
<p>yes yes i am sure many of us on this board came into high school thinking we’d get 4.0’s and 2400, 800,800 but high school is harder than that. you must remembr that if you want the full experience you must maintain a social life?
if you don’t go out on the weekends you’ll be too depressed to do well in school in the first place. what gets me through school is thinking about my plans for the weekends. yes i do a countdown to everyday since 7:00 monday morning and countdown until summer since school starts. what do you plan on havin your motivation to get through school be when you want to even spend your weekends studying?</p>
<p>Summer vacations are the best.</p>
<p>I agree. </p>
<p>Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn’t Work Hard</p>