<p>^^ I totally understand. My parents never pressure me in a bad way, just support me positively. But sometimes it’s still hard when I KNOW that I don’t have a shot at some of the schools I’d love to attend.</p>
<p>Knowledge in Chaos- come back we are not that scary!
college3231 and manifesto- yeah, I see where you are coming from but I’m just glad i found this site in my junior year. Now, that I know the competition out there- I can raise my GPA,look for competitions and work to the SAT score i want. I look at it as something I can change and i feel better. After all, we are not seniors yet. so there is hope. And more,importantly,time.</p>
<p>Time for SAT score raising? Certainly.</p>
<p>But what I suck at is GPA…a 3.5 is lousy, and I really can’t raise it all that much.</p>
<p>My top choices are MIT, UPenn, and CMU, all of which have great financial aid. The problem is just getting in :P</p>
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<p>I don’t think it’s all that great because it’s so small. My cousin really loved it and even got accepted, but in the end he had to go somewhere else because of the insufficient financial aid…</p>
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<li>I have a boyfriend, we’ve been dating for almost two and a half years</li>
<li>GPA is 3.7 (going from last year, no weighted classes)</li>
<li>USC, UC Davis, Cornell, Stanford would be nice!</li>
<li>Nooo… junior year is so stressful and I’m taking way harder classes and dealing with way more emotional stress than ever before</li>
<li>Ok, siick… </li>
<li>January 23rd, for the first and probably not the last time</li>
<li>Exhausting, stressful, time-consuming, and annoying</li>
<li>Had my permit for a year, expires in 6 days ) ;
Got a car from my brother, but he lives out of town so I can’t get it yet, and my parents can’t afford car insurance anyway, so not getting my license for a while
Hydroplaned once right after the first rain of the season, no other exciting driving experiences haha</li>
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<p>Sigh… I suppose so. I’ve heard people rave about Middlebury’s excellent foreign language programs, but as I mentioned earlier, I don’t like its location, and its financial aid is probably quite limited. On top of that, I’m a Canadian citizen, and I heard recent stories that Middlebury recently dropped its need-blind policy for internationals. Whether those are true or not, my folks most likely won’t have enough to pay full tuition, so I guess I’m better off looking at other places.</p>
<p>Yeah…as a matter of fact, I wanted to go to Middlebury for a while because I’m really into languages as well, but the location thing was a major con. I’ve always lived in the city…even spending a week someplace a little beyond suburban makes me depressed.</p>
<p>Today I was thinking about how my academic life has changed since elementary school. I’m curious how people’s college “hopes” have or have not changed over the years. Did you have a “dream school” in elementary or middle school? Is that still where you want to go, or have your desires changed over time? How have your opinions about college or the college process changed throughout middle school and high-school (so far)?</p>
<p>I was a normal kid in elementary school with an exception of being trilingual. Loll. I didn’t have a dream school, glad I didn’t. All I wanted was to have fun and I surely did :)</p>
<p>^^ Me too, ■■■■■■■■11. I was talking to someone recently who was discussing the school they had wanted to attend since the sixth or seventh grade. I don’t remember ever thinking about college then, so I was just wondering what other CC-ers thought.</p>
<p>When I was in 3rd grade, I decided that my dream school was to be Michigan State University, regardless of the fact that I’m from California and that I knew nothing about it. In 9th grade, I decided that it would probably be best to give that up.</p>
<p>Also, why have so many juniors already taken the SAT? I’m taking it in January, and almost nobody I know in real life is taking it then.</p>
<p>Haha, when I was in elementary school (and even middle school, for that matter) I didn’t think about college at all.</p>
<p>i wanted to go to rutgers in elementary school haha because the colleges i had heard of were all ones with good basketball teams and rutgers was the “home team”.</p>
<p>and jaddua, i took the SAT because i wanted to get it over with. and i did well enough so that happened! I think others may want to get a base score to try to improve on.</p>
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Okay. <em>Jumps back into thread</em> xP</p>
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I’m signed up to take the January SAT for the first time too. (Except I might end up canceling… I got a really good ACT score, and there are a bunch of people telling me that taking the SAT might actually hurt.)</p>
<p>I’m taking the SAT in Jan for the first time too. Got a 29 on the ACT last month, and I’m content with it because it was my first time and I think I can improve to 32+</p>
<p>I’m taking it for the first time in January also. I thought about taking it earlier, but just didn’t feel prepared enough (not that I really do now). My goal is to take it twice, because I know I will need more than one try, and then just be done with it. No ACT for me (fingers crossed).</p>
<p>Eh… Depending on what type of person you are, you might be better off taking the ACT too.</p>
<p>Personally, I find the ACT to be a lot more suited for math/science people (after all, it’s got a science section) while the SAT is better for more lit-orientated people who are better at nitpicking and have stronger (random) vocabulary skills.</p>
<p>Most of the SAT IS based on reading. Even the Math section requires some pretty careful reading of the question and knowledge of what exactly it’s asking for, if you want to get a good score.</p>
<p>Knowledge… i happened upon your thread and please do not take the SAT- its a waste of a saturday morning when you have that ACT score and no NMSF-qualifying score needed!!</p>