<p>Hi everyone. I’m just wondering:</p>
<p>What are your plans after high school?</p>
<p>How did you decide what you want to do after high school (ex: career path)? </p>
<p>What personality traits influenced your choices?</p>
<p>UT Austin or Cornell. Grad school: UCSF then be a pharmacist.
Well I woke up one day and made it my life’s plan to go to an Ivy or UT… I was like 12.
Well I’m Asian and there are a lot of Asians at UT and Cornell so I totally don’t want racist peers. I also have a competitive personality so I need to be constantly pushed by my peers to be better.</p>
<p>Hopefully get into Stanford, Caltech, Columbia, or MIT.
If not there, then Virginia Tech or George Mason
Get my MS + Doctorate from first listed schools.</p>
<p>What are your plans after high school?
I’m def. going to college. Whether it’d be full time here in the US or Japan or Korea, I’m going to a college. Preferably Waseda or Meiji… But if I can go to TUJ, Middlebury, Dartmouth, or Washing University that’d be great too!</p>
<p>How did you decide what you want to do after high school (ex: career path)?
I am going to be an actress in Japan…! I either major in acting in Japan (if I’m already fluent), major in Japan Studies/Japanese Culture/related in some American college… or something.
I didn’t choose Japan because of anime or manga either. I kinda always wanted to be apart of the entertainment industry, but singer idols in east Asia usually have short careers… and their highlight is before they even turn 30.
I love acting, I can be anyone in the world if I’m acting. I can be a President, a murderer, a princess, a druggie, a lawyer, a police officer, a professional athlete, etc.</p>
<p>What personality traits influenced your choices?
Actually, my mom was really surprised that I wanted to go into acting. I’m more reserved, and I guess my mom pictured actors and actresses as really outgoing people.</p>
<p>Study Computer Science at Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UCB, or Cornell. Work for Google after. </p>
<p>Because I’ve always loved being on the computer. I’ve been playing them since the age of 3 and I can program my own and some software as well. Learning new languages is funnn. & Google is the shizznizzz</p>
<p>My dad studied Computer Science at UC Irvine. I guess you could say it’s in my genes.</p>
<p>Graduate from Amherst with a Bachelor’s in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. Join the Peace Corps for two years and go to Cambodia. Get a two-year master’s in International Relations from Yale. Work at Amnesty International for ten years then join the Humanitarian Affairs department at the United Nations.</p>
<p>After high school I’d like to attend University of Florida and do some research in the biomedical science arena whilst I’m there. From there I might switch my major to biochemistry for grad school (out of state, at an ivy? I don’t know), do some overseas study in the summer, and then just go on to run my own lab some day or go into government work. 
Perhaps tack on a minor in political science.
Somehow stick in getting married/having kids/what have you in there. </p>
<p>I’m sure my socioeconomic status and early (and intense) parental attention has factored into my decisions. </p>
<p>I’m a driven gal, so I figure that has something to do with it all.</p>
<p>What are your plans after high school?
I plan on attending a top tier and heavily academic college like University of Chicago or Brown University and major in something that will help me in an international/marketing/political career. I want to live and work in Europe (particularly France once I’m fluent in French) and do humanitarian work in Africa (Uganda) and Asia (Philippines). Maybe I’ll pursue a career in politics in the Philippines once I’ve become wealthy and have resources and connections. I’ll also pen a novel or two someday.</p>
<p>How did you decide what you want to do after high school (ex: career path)?
I want to raise my socioeconomic status, but I also have a fierce drive to help those even less fortunate than me.</p>
<p>What personality traits influenced your choices?
I’m ridiculously ambitious, Asian, and have an inane desire to prove to my parents that I’m not the complete failure than they make me out to be.</p>
<p>Considering this is a college forum, most will be going to college.</p>
<p>I decided to do Engineering because the starting salaries are highest for Engineering. Then I decided to do CS (Engineering school where I go) because that’s the single highest paying major.</p>
<p>Rutgers or Reed , maybe.</p>
<p>Job: No clue. Reed is known for one thing though and it isn’t legal.</p>
<p>Dream: To own a motorcycle.</p>
<p>Get into a fairly diverse college, with a wealthy Asian population (this includes brown people), and start buying pharmacies.</p>
<p>In the mean time I want to be in a 6, 7 , or 8 year med program. </p>
<p>Given the criteria above, does anyone have any colleges/programs they would recommend?</p>
<p>@elbeeen:</p>
<p>My dream, but replace Amherst with Emory, and I’ll think about graduate school. ;)</p>
<p>“In the mean time I want to be in a 6, 7 , or 8 year med program.”</p>
<p>Michigan used to have a 6 year UG-Med school program. I was told they closed it because the suicide rate in it was too high. (I really was told that). And keep in mind, this was SUPER selective already.</p>
<p>Woo CS love!!</p>
<p>Plans: MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Columbia</p>
<p>Majors: CS+Mathematics, or CS + CE</p>
<p>Why: I’ve been in love with it since I was a toddler</p>
<p>Personality: quite cold and computational thinking</p>
<p>I’m going to Carnegie Mellon in August, during the summer I’ll be working (possibly at a bar, odd). I plan to major in mechanical engineering with a focus in robotics, get my masters with the whole +1 program, maybe do an internship with NASA?</p>
<p>I like working on robots and I like theater so it’s how I came to Carnegie. I choose mechanical because I’m very good at math and physics and I enjoy creating/designing things. Robotics are just damn fun. Computer and Electrical don’t interest me as much as a major since I might have to kill myself if I end up programing from 8-4. Chemical, I hate chemistry…Civil/Industrial, I’m just not that organized of a person.</p>
<p>Um…I’m a good leader? Like, I’m stage manager/head tech in theater and I was leader of my engineering group that won a robotics competition (our theater won stuff too, I have “Best Techie” award). I’m pretty straight forward, I compromise well but I also know how to get the **** done. I think it’s a very important trait in any job, especially engineering with all the teamwork done. I’m reliable? I’m also quick to pick things up. I don’t like to say “I don’t know how to do that”. I’ll say “hmm, let me see you…” and then “okay, yeah I know”.</p>
<p>I want to go to college in the US, but for each college I have a diff major in mind…
I’d love to do any of these and I’m working for it :)</p>
<p>Columbia/Princeton/Yale: English and Political Science</p>
<p>Northwestern: Journalism or English</p>
<p>Stanford: Creative Writing</p>
<p>Brown: International Affairs</p>
<p>Harvard: Philosophy and English</p>
<p>Go to UC Berkeley for EECS and double minor in physics and math, focusing on quantum computing and algorithms.</p>
<p>Doctorate: HYPSMC</p>
<p>EECS or Applied Physics, whatever I think will be most interesting/beneficial for research, or whatever career opportunities I have at that time.</p>