Official Unofficial Class of '11 Thread

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881

<p>Schools in which I’ve been looking at there websites and like: (That have the major I want right now)
UGA
PSU-UP
OSU
Pitt
IU- Bloomington</p>

<p>yeah… i don’t have much obviously, so any suggestions would be great.
I don’t have great grades, but they aren’t like awful (GPA in 3.0-4.0 range… I’m going to try and raise it a lot this year though, soph year was a really hard year for many reasons)
I want a reasonable price, pretty campus/facilities, big school, lots of school spirit (good sports is a plus!), and preferably the major I’m interested in right now: Social Work.</p>

<p>All of my schools on my short list have Social Work (I think) besides PSU… which I’ll probably apply to regardless because my mom, and cousins went there, and my brother goes there right now. (It’s pretty much where I’m expected to go, and although I like it… I just don’t want to go there.)</p>

<p>Any suggestions would be AWESOME!</p>

<p>You guys have all realllly long lists though, haha!</p>

882

<p>I’d want to major in Chemical/Materials Engineering</p>

<p>Reaches:</p>

<p>MIT
Cornell</p>

<p>Matches:</p>

<p>University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Duke
Lehigh
UC Berkeley
Rice
RPI</p>

<p>Safeties:</p>

<p>UMass Amherst
UMass Boston
Northeastern University
Boston University</p>

883

<p>coollege- Your list looks somewhat like mine. XD</p>

<p>Lots of Southern schools.</p>

<p>I want to stay in the south so bad… but my dream school is in DC. =(</p>

884

<p>Part of me reallly wants to stay in the northeast… but I don’t want to go to a school where its REALLLY cold (like penn state)</p>

<p>I don’t like heat either though, aha</p>

885

<p>Oooh, I’m a little late to join the conversation but…</p>

<p>My schedule next year looks like a joke in comparison to the one I had this year.
My vice principal just called to inform me that I have to drop 1 of my 2 AP’s next year because of scheduling conflicts. Or I have to drop symphonic orch, which I finally made after 2 years in a lower orchestra (though I gained experience as concertmistress!).
What sucks is that I took 3 AP’s sophomore year (euro, chem, bio)</p>

<p>I’m guessing that’s gonna make me look bad.</p>

<p>Next year, I’m taking…
-calculus, offered by the cal state system so I get college credit for it. No, it isn’t AP
-AP stats, which is the AP that will likely get dropped unless I decide to stay in a lower level orchestra again.
-AP lang
-US history, not AP because the teacher at my school, simply put, sucks.
-PE. Or I’m not going to complete my PE credits LOL
-spanish 3.</p>

<p>Also taking the SAT next year will definitely be lovely fun. Everyone I know is in some summer boot camp that costs $3k. I prefer to stay home with my books and study on my own, thank you very much.</p>

<p>During sophomore year, we had a mandatory meeting with our counselors. She basically told me that a lot of UC’s could be safeties for me, including UCLA & UCSD, which is pretty nice considering they’re both awesome schools.
However, my top choice is Northwestern. UPenn and Berkeley would be nice too. Stanford & JHU are also out there… but yeah, really out there.</p>

<p>Considering double majoring in business & psychology. NU has a lot of flexibility for this, which is why it’s my top choice :)</p>

<p>Wow, long post, huhn?</p>

<p>Comment are always nice, it’d be cool to talk to some of my fellow '11ers.</p>

886

<p>whooo 2011</p>

<p>I only care about one school UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!!
…but my safeties are: Butler
Purdue
Howard
Xavier (LA)</p>

887

<p>How many SAT subject tests are you guys taking?</p>

<p>I want to take 3, because it seems like that is the highest amount a school wants, but I don’t know if I can waste my time studying for and taking 3.</p>

888

<p>^I took Chem this year, and might retake in the fall because I only got 790. Next June I’m taking U.S. History and Math II.</p>

889

<p>^ I took Chem and Math I this year, 770 and 700 respectively. Dunbar, why would you retake because of 10 points? I’m not retaking. I think 750+ you don’t have to retake.</p>

890

<p>Chem is a joke, I should have gotten an 800 but I guess I made a bunch of simple mistakes. Oh well, that’s the story of my high school career.</p>

891

<p>Well, do you think I should retake it? The only reason I didn’t get an 800 was that I also made a bunch of stupid mistakes.</p>

892

<p>Yeah, I agree with tmanneopen, everything over a 750 is ok. A 790 is fine fine fineeeee :)</p>

893

<p>Yea, SAT scores are slowly losing their overbearing weight in college admissions, so as long as it’s 750+, you should be fine. Focus on taking other tests or just in school, or relax =]</p>

894

<p>A 790 vs. an 800 is absolutely meaningless. Spend the money on something fun…</p>

895

<p>^^^ Agreed</p>

896

<p>hoping that i can apply with this:
Safetys:
Arizona
Seton Hall/Rutgers/Instate NJ school</p>

<p>Match:
Miami
Tulane
Syracuse
UMD
UConn</p>

<p>match/reach:
villanova</p>

<p>Reach:
NYU
USC
UMich</p>

897

<p>hmm I might retake a 790…I think it really depends on the test. I mean I guess if you’re planning to something major in Chem it could look better…plus atleast for some colleges with Score Choice they’ll never know…I dunno for me I wouldn’t say automatic no. But keep in mind you could do worse…</p>

898

<p>I am not sure if I should take the SAT subject tests, like the three that a lot of colleges like, or not care and not take them. I mean my school doesn’t offer them, and the only reason I know about it is because of this site… I feel like colleges seriously can’t look down upon me for that… I mean we had a some kids get into ivy league schools, and non to my knowledge took subject tests…</p>

899

<p>Retaking a 790= MADNESS
C’mon guys, you’re seriously not going to waste a perfectly good Saturday morning to retake a test you’ve already aced?
It’s not like the HYPSM adcom is going to go “Only a 790? REJECT!”
Just relax…next year is going to be bad enough, without having to worry about 10 points on an SAT II test.</p>

900

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<p>Yeah, and the thing is I’m from the North. Chasing the merit aid and the better weather, and I want to see a different part of the country.
Though I’ve never been down South in the summer, but I’m going down to visit family in Louisiana next month, we’ll see how it goes. </p>

<p>DC sounds like an awesome place to go to college in, but I’m not sure if I’ll get into Georgetown and I don’t know too much about American.</p>