<p>Resume padding? Pfft…if anything, I underpad my resume for the lulz.</p>
<p>I love how we sophomores are perhaps the most competitive of any other year.</p>
<p>^I agree, and I don’t like it one bit. I shudder to think how badly we’ll sabotage fellow Class of '11ers, our own friends, just so we can individually become more successful in life. Maybe I’m being a bit extreme, but I can seriously see the competition heading in this direction…</p>
<p>I’m sick of everything. I just want to take a nice long nap. But alas, I have to get ready to BS my English final tomorrow (haven’t read a single thing all year, really).</p>
<p>Class of '11 here, too!</p>
<p>I will probably end up at UT Austin since I live in TX and if I’m in the top 10% I can get into any public university in the state automatically. I do hope to go to a nice private university on a nice scholarship, but I think I’ve been daydreaming far too much these days. :D</p>
<p>And I do plan on making National Merit Semifinalist next year (one of my major goals) and then maybe going to a college on a full ride scholarship. What do y’all think of making National Merit/ the PSAT?</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you people!</p>
<p>^ Oh wow, I haven’t given much thought if any thought to the PSAT next year… California has a pretty tough cutoff score… 217/218… hopefully I’ll make it!</p>
<p>I was so close to the cutoff this year for CA, but I’m afraid next year I’ll get worse and not make it. But I really want to make National Merit.</p>
<p>National Merit doesn’t make a big difference - don’t worry about it too much.</p>
<p>Also, having your scores go down seems unlikely. I took it 3 times and it went up both times (214 –> 221 –> 225).</p>
<p>^ Sure, but I’m nowhere near your level: (179 –> 195 —> ?)</p>
<p>And yeah, chocobok, usually your PSAT score won’t go down.</p>
<p>PSAT…is like the SAT. Recognizing patterns and using some common sense, and most importantly approaching the questions in the right manner. Of course, you can ace it and get a perfect score without doing this. Everyone’s different; I don’t claim an existence of an universal monopoly on strategies and “correctness” on something arbitrary as SAT/PSAT testing.</p>
<p>IMO most people, from what I’ve seen, have the entirely wrong mindset about the SAT and approach it in the wrong way, and etc, it’s less to do with how smart you are (this is hard to prove, but it’s purely anecdotal, and what I heard from many people who aced the SAT’s and etc).</p>
<p>I don’t suggest you worry about these tests (as the other guy above me said), but try to approach it in the manner that you’ll pwn it basically (in the broadest sense of the word, many different applications depending on the person), and you’ll do well.</p>
<p>PSAT- similarly like the SAT, with half-asleepness and bs (in critical reading esp. lol), I scored a 205 as a soph (80M, 70W, …55CR).</p>
<p>Guys, I’m dying this year…can you imagine what junior year will be like?? 
Is anyone else fizzling out?</p>
<p>People like DataBox and tsubomi and other smart people with a bazillion AP/college classes, you guys are crazy :)</p>
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<p>Yeah, nothing is more harmful on a test than negativity.</p>
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<p>Oh heck yes. Online Physics+personal/family problems=death</p>
<p>I’m taking it easy this coming year… well not really but much easier than I have been.</p>
<p>I’m okay actually. I died when swim season started but now it’s actually pretty relaxing if you exclude all the 4th quarter projects we have.</p>
<p>I’m willing to sacrifice my life next year and live a single year of torture and hell combined for an easy senior year. My anticipated senior year rebirth will probably be one of the most refreshing experiences of my school career XD</p>
<p>i’ll have the worst senioritis ever :)</p>
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<p>I’m way past that. I’ve fizzled. I’ve honestly got to change my academic approach next year. Time to ix-nay procrastination and cramming, among other things.</p>
<p>Oh god, I’ve fizzled out completely. I am now counting down the days till the end of school almost every five minutes. I can’t focus anymore. I should be doing homework right now, but I can’t. I should also be preparing for SAT II’s and I still can’t. I need to really work out some amazingly efficient time-management plan next year if I’m going to survive.</p>
<p>my schedule looks like this:
APUSH
Honors English (they don’t offer AP English for juniors, only seniors)
AP Calculus AB
AP Chemistry
AP Statistics
Honors Physics (they don’t offer AP)
4 years worth of Chinese (Mandarin) outside of school
Robotics Captain (Programming)
Key Club Founder and President
DECA Community Service Chair (hoping to make it to internationals this year)
This summer I am interning at the UW Applied Physics Lab and am attending the NYLF of Medicine
I’m basically gonna die next year :/</p>
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<p>Yep, same here. I have two finals tomorrow…chem will be fine. Math will slaughter me. Sooo…I should be studying.</p>
<p>I don’t feel like I’ve learned enough this year in my classes to take SAT II’s. :[ So next year, I’ve clearly got to take matters into my own hands.</p>