<p>Guys I started the data box vs. tsuomi1993 thing and it was just about whose schedule was harder, not who was the better student overall. Can we let this die?</p>
<p>My schedule for next year is:
AP Calc AB
AP Chem
AP English III
AP U.S. History
Honors Physics( Soon to be AP if the teacher agrees to let me in :/)
Spanish III
(Possibly if my schedule above is not enough by third week- AP Stats or AP Environmental.)</p>
<p>Will colleges care about how many years I’ve been in a club or volunteering ?</p>
<p>aigiqinf:
I think your schedule is fine, and colleges will care about the number of years of your involvement–and you should too.</p>
<p>Me: On the app do you state both hours and years? If I apply early to a college and I’m in the progress of a 3rd year of a certain club or volunteering, do I say three years? It seems easier to put hours for community and volunteer work then for clubs. Also, if I join a club at the last month of school, can I say I was in it for another year? My counselor said I could but I gotta make sure :P</p>
<p>Schedule:
AP English Language and Composition
Spanish 3 Honors
AP United States History
Pre Calculus Honors/Analysis of Functions
AP Psychology
AP Biology
Physics Honors</p>
<p>Class Unsure About, but could always replace AP Biology with: AP Chemistry
Haha my schedule looks like nothing compared to you all, and I thought mine was bad. I see some kids who already took AP Calc BC and AP Physics by 10th? Then, I see some of you who take like 7 AP’s in 11th.
So… in other news. With all our tough schedules is everyone able to fit in SAT Prep during the school year next year?</p>
<p>it would be hilarious if DataBox and tsubomi turned out to be the same person lol</p>
<p>@ SAT Prep subject: I took it this May, so -crossing my fingers- hopefully I’ll get a good score and not have to worry about it next year!</p>
<p>I’m not going to take a class, just use prep books probably.</p>
<p>@cbisascam: I’ll PM you about Columbia research and professors if that’s what you’re interested in. They have honors math and physics sequences that are doable and interesting, I don’t know if that’s what you’re interested in though. </p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer a lot of AP classes (obscure school, not really intense), so self-studying and college classes were pretty much the only way to go for me. I would still recommend a college class though, you aren’t assigned a lot of useless busy work and I find them interesting. I hope that sort of helped…:p</p>
<p>@MetalMeatWad: I’m probably just going to use prep books starting a couple months before the test and hope for the best :)</p>
<p>Oh LOL @ this epic lulz…now we’re arguing who looks more “resume-impressive”? Epic lulz.</p>
<p>Oh and, the SAT’s a joke, it’s simply patterns and probably has no correlation to intelligence…I’m not someone anyone would consider intelligent by any means, and without any single prep and sleeping halfway through the test I made 2260 which is considered fairly competent (I think)?</p>
<p>Good luck with your uber ambitions, as someone else said in a previous page, I’m chilling.</p>
<p>Thanks for the pm tsubomi it was helpful. </p>
<p>What are your top schools?</p>
<p>cbisascam:
Columbia
UPenn
Univ of Chicago
Brown</p>
<p>@Invoyable: 2260 is hella good. You’re like an undercover genius. If you weren’t so lazy (which is what I pick up from your posts) then you’d probably be “considered intelligent.”</p>
<p>[EDIT] Although I agree that the SAT is not an accurate measure of intelligence, it does tend to be that the most intelligent receive the highest scores. So, it’s still a measure, albeit inaccurate, of intelligence… IMO.</p>
<p>@page 14 of this thread…</p>
<p>The circumstances on the SAT were not good for me at all. I know that my post may seem to be a ■■■■■’s post; it is not fake, it is true. I have worked up from a tough middle school experience and brought myself up to speed in high school. I was frightened when I thought I did well on the SAT when I didn’t. I then said to myself that the SAT is NOT an accurate predictor of my success. Therefore I said that this year would be the year where I improve myself. I am currently taking 2 AP, Euro & Stats. Yes my weakest grade is in Honors English 10 which is a 93 therefore a B. My English teacher encouraged me to take AP English next year because I improved a lot and believed I could improve further. I highly doubt grade inflation is in my school at all. Sophomore students who scored a lot higher than me on the PSAT have trouble with classes like Algebra II and Honors English and Euro. I took the SAT freshman year and was the first one in my class to attempt it. That in part, explains a little for my low score, but the SAT did not predict much I will improve and therefore does not reflect the present of today.</p>
<p>^^mulberrypie, i agree with you on the sat. too often people say “the sat has no correlation to intelligence” and are done with it. this is not entirely true, there is a correlation, just not a perfect one.</p>
<p>^son of school, change your page setting so that this is page 7.</p>
<p>I totally agree with Innoyable with what I can tell from the PSAT (haven’t taken the SAT yet). The math problems are all patterns, so once you’ve practiced them, it shouldn’t be that hard to do well. And the Reading Comp is slightly harder (for some people) in that you can’t exactly study for it (except for vocab), but I think if I just do a few practice tests I’ll be fine. I’m kinda nervous though taking so many tests next year.</p>
<p>yeah. thousand dollar prep classes are definitely not worth it.</p>
<p>Exactly, I agree with chocobok.</p>
<p>
I wish, but nah…perhaps if I can get some things done this year I might…accomplish things. It all depends on the context of my motivation.</p>
<p>And well, I don’t know if it completely has nothing to do with intelligence, but from my experience, and many others, it doesn’t really seem to correlate that much…the ones considered “smart” at my school can’t break a 2100, the ones that bs everything, and are considered average-ish got 2200+'s.</p>
<p>Math = patterns that don’t test any real math.
English = …reading, and writing? LOL.</p>
<p>If anything, I’d prefer SAT II’s as a more accurate measure of accomplishment over a subject, but then again that’s probably less of an indicator of intelligence and more over a mastery (an achievement test rather than an aptitude one).</p>
<p>AP US History
AP English Lang.
AP Environmental
AP Psychology
AP Art History
French I
Debate and/or Creative Photography</p>
<p>Columbia University is my dream school and I would sell my soul to get in lol.</p>
<p>My current school is a boring me into depression so I plan on moving in with my dad to go to a better school, and to help my chances of getting into Columbia.</p>
<p>As far as social life goes, due to all the freaking classes I’m taking next year, I’m relaxing during the summer. The beach is calling my name…</p>
<p>Hey, Databox and tsubomi, how did you guys do your environmental research? I’ve been trying to find professors, and none are willing. Also, how do you guys come up with topics? I’ve been thinking, and I can’t get any really good ideas. One idea I’ve been toying around with is something involving algae and its uses as a biofuel. Any ideas?</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: Hey, I don’t know if this is anything like what DataBox does, but I go to Columbia around 2-3 days a week for classes, then I work with a professor and a group of grad students. At first they taught me how to work the equipment and computers, and at first, all I did was help the grad students, but then they give you a little research job to do on your own. </p>
<p>I did a lot of reading as to what sort of research I wanted to do: I wanted to combine my interests (physics, engineering), with something that could potentially be beneficial. Finding professors often takes a while, I got lucky, but a lot of my friends send emails to huge lists of professors, and their topic will be whatever the professor is currently researching. </p>
<p>I think your topic sounds interesting. If you can’t find a professor, there are summer programs where you can often research with someone at a university. I would do a lot of reading and ask yourself what you would be interested in researching for a while. I hope this helped at least a little (sorry for the long post). Good luck! :]</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: sorry to post again! I volunteer through this website and I remembered that they have a good page on this sort of thing :] </p>
<p>[Science</a> Buddies: How to Find a Mentor](<a href=“http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/top_science-fair_mentors.shtml]Science”>Science Buddies: How to Find a Mentor)</p>
<p>^good website. I’m in sort of the same situation as tmanneopen. </p>
<p>Guys, the freshman thread is catching up to us…</p>