I hope college is all you want it to be and leads to your dream career. I think its great you are trying to think of how to paint yourself in the best light. However, while you may have been able to manipulate some test scores, acceptance into college is often a bit more subjective which is something that you will struggle with. Nobody has the crystal ball to predict anyone’s futures.
I’m wondering why you aren’t looking at the UK? You have the $$, your scores would get you into most UK unis (other than Oxbridge/LSE/Imperial), you only study the subject you want to study (from another thread, you want just Finance), and in England you would be in & out in 3 years. You would have to have a guardian (for legal purposes, as you would be under 18), but if you don’t know anybody there, and your parents don’t want to spend term time with you in the UK there is a professional guardian service.
@collegemom3717 You just said. I would have to have a “guardian” which is against my values and my principles. That would go against my whole life’s work. Youth Rights is a fundamental part of my life and something that I very strongly believe in. I was born this way, I can remember questioning age restrictions as early as 4 years old. Plus I’m an American and want to go to an American university and live in America.
Fair enough- it just seemed as if there were elements that you would like. The UK system is a lot more independent than the US. Are you an emancipated minor?
@collegemom3717 Legally I’m not an emancipated minor but my parents have essentially abdicated their role as my guardian. We live in the same house but they treat me more like a 30 year old living in the basement than a teenager.
I definitely have the means to become an emancipated minor here in FL when I turn 16 in June. However, I won’t because I believe it would be wrong of me to run from my oppression leaving the 75 million people under the arbitrary marker of 18 behind. Martin Luther King wouldn’t want to magically turn white if he could. We have to all keep fighting as a group to end this. And it will end, I promise you. We are mobilizing people like we never have before. We are actively recruiting young people on the internet and in person. We are determined to ending the oppression of young people.
You may want to tone down your rhetoric. I was going to say more, but I think I’ll leave it at that.
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@Sue22 Why should I tone down my rhetoric? What I am saying is not remotely offensive nor does it violate the CC terms.
Welp, as weird internet ideologies go, I’d say this one at least is preferable to being a 4chan nazi.
The more I read of his posts the sadder I kind of get for him. I truly hope college opens his mind and allows him whatever freedoms he feels he is so repressed from.
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Except for the fact that we Advocate for giving people rights rather than revoking rights like nazis. I guess you don’t want human rights for young people, just like how nazis didn’t want human rights for Jews.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. …
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Okay, I’ll go there. Are you seriously equating a short-term inability to take on adult rights (without most of the responsibilities, I may add) with Jim Crow laws and lynchings?
SMH
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@Sue22 No, the situation we face is not as dire as the situation that African Americans faced.
But it is greater than the situation that women faced, not that they didn’t face oppression, they did, but not as bad as we face because all of our rights are taken rather than just Voting.
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So you want all the rights? How about all the responsibilities, then, such as paying for college?
@MaineLonghorn Absolutely! But things would have to change first for us to be able to pay for college. Trust me, we would love to pay for college ourselves and save our parents a good chunk of change.
I hope you can hear that I am writing with honest, good intentions for you, hoping for the best for your future. I had not read your prior threads but skimmed enough just now to see that you took high school classes online. I used to teach high school, and I taught some online high school courses as well, although a different system than the one you used. I looked briefly at the same Algebra I course the program you attended uses. It looked OK. But what I think it seems to lack (and I could be wrong) is the type of deeper questioning and discussion and the ability for students to investigate on their own to construct knowledge. It did not look bad for an online program, but I have yet to see an online program match what you could get in an honors level course at a good high school or an AP course, etc. It isn’t the same experience. I had a student drop out of one of my math courses in a high school, (he had a lot of disruptive behaviors in all classes). He was put into online courses and bragged to me a short while later (3 weeks or so), saying, “Ha! I finished the whole course in 3 weeks!” Yes, he did, but he certainly didn’t get the same amount of information, learning, depth of knowledge, or experience. And part of the experience in many classes is learning to work cooperatively in groups, having opportunities to take on leadership roles, presenting to groups, and more. These things don’t happen in the same way in any on online program I know. Maybe yours had some of these aspects. However, learning isn’t about speed. The top mathematicians in the world don’t go fast. They think very slowly and deeply about difficult problems, sometimes taking years or even decades to solve a single problem. Good writing isn’t about speed. Talent can be there but to develop, it takes a lot of time. Rushing doesn’t lend itself to this. i ask this, were any of your courses challenging to you? I ask because eventually if you go through college, you will almost certainly come to a course that is challenging. Bright students who zoom through courses with little effort eventually find that course that is difficult and if they have not developed the mental work habits to build a work ethic than can involved thinking of how to solve a single math problem for a week before figuring it out, or writing a dozen drafts for a 10 or 20 page paper, or etc, then they can have a hard time with that situation. It can be a real shock. Success in life isn’t from being the fastest, but from having perseverance. I think of all traits successful people have, perseverance is one of the most important. And by perseverance, I mean the ability to continue tying to solve problems, write better papers, figure out solutions to novel problems and more than are very challenging to the person, and that take time, and slow, deep thought. It means not quitting even when you can’t figure anything out, when you are not doing well in a class, when maybe you are in class with others who are faster, better, and to whom things come more naturally. It means spending many hours working hard most every day for months/years. The other things that I think bring about success are true, deep self confidence to the point the person seems to feel good about who they are no matter what others think and not in an arrogant way, just in a ‘I know myself and feel good about myself’ type of way. They don’t get thrown off their center by others who don’t agree with them. And maybe most importantly, successful people usually are very, very good with getting along with others. People like them. They are charismatic. They are good-natured, smile a lot, enjoy other people. That isn’t to say there are not exceptions. But in one of the threads I read you asking what key club and debate would get you. They would get you some of the above traits and help you practice developing perseverance (debate would, anyway). I don’t think there is any one right way to do school. I can see that traditional school wasn’t the best fit for you. I think you likely would have done well in a very high-level, rigorous school that also gave students freedom to develop their interests and a lot of choice as well. If you had been in a school like that with students your intellectual equal, you would have probably had a wonderful experience.
You are bright but test taking is not the same as deep learning. Spending a week analyzing a single poem and writing a paper about it with lots of references could be deep work. All sorts of things could be deep work. I don’t think you have done enough deep work yet.
You have a goal to do finance. When I was your age I think I had similar goals. I thought people who did the job I do now (teacher) were stupid and couldn’t make enough money to survive well. My point isn’t that I was wrong or stupid myself back then but that I sure changed and I"m very glad I am not bound by decisions I made back then. I do think you are right that ideas about childhood and adolescence are subjective and have changed over time throughout history and are different even now depending on one’s culture. However, I do think there is pretty good science that humans are still maturing and developing at your age. In my own life, I feel like this has not stopped happening actually. I wouldn’t say you are too young to know what you want. You obviously know what you want. I would say you have too limited a life experience to be sure you don’t want something else and that the something else might not be better for you.
You have an impressive ACT score for someone so young. if your math understanding were deeper, your Math II would be higher. Typical students with a 4.0 GPA would have a higher SAT II Math, from what I have seen. I don’t know enough about what it takes to be successful in finance but I think I would start with that. I know certain schools are feeder schools in finance. I don’t know if not doing so will block you from having the career you now want. I have no idea what is right for you in life. I think that you may find there are more things out there you haven’t tried yet that might interest you, that you might be good at, that might be career options or college major options.
I wish you all the best in whatever you do. I hope your college experience will be one that is good enough that you love it and don’t want to rush through it. Life is not a race. The first to finish school are not necessarily ‘ahead’ of anyone else. Life doesn’t work that way. I hope you can hear I am not criticizing or judging you. I am not better than you but I am older and have had experiences you have not and I have a different perspective than you do. I think education is a precious thing. I love learning and would love to go to college for the rest of my life. It makes me sad to think of people rushing through education to finish fast the way it would be if someone listening to a beautiful symphony on fast forward or ate a delicious meal while standing and putting the food in their mouth quickly. Some things in life are to be savored. To me, education is one of them. I think your middle school sounds like it failed you. Good teachers should be able to give top students enough meat that their classes are still interesting to students who pick things up fast. That’s sad to me that you didn’t get that from school itself.
Very best wishes.
ok; so if your 16 this summer; you’ll be 17 when you start college next year. Is that right? Or are you starting this fall?
tell you what; ageism happens to older people much more than younger people. Stakes are higher then, and there’s a much larger spread of years where ageism happens. Want to really help people? work with this; focus on others rather than yourself.
we know you are bright. but being young at college could be very hard on you. What is the point of that?
EG: I have an 18 yr old. He wants nothing to do with my 14 yr old and her (cute) friends. Nothing. I would hate to see that happen to you at college if you were there at age 15/16 and the 18/19 yr olds would just see you as that pesky token smart kid.
and regarding transferring: if you take classes after you graduate from HS; you would be a transfer student. transfer students get BAD scholarship offers for the most part. You could potentially lose freshmen scholarships, which I’d bet you will get at many schools. So, be careful on that. Don’t hurry your teenage years. You’ll be an adult for 50+ years and it gets old.
@suteiki77 Wow, thank you for the write up, I appreciate your kind words.
May I ask where you found the full class of FLVS Algebra I? I was not aware that was made available to the public.
My Elementary School and Middle School years were terrible. It never seemed like education to me, rather a war of teachers vs students. I’m sure things may me different in other areas of the U.S. but I was in Mississippi for Elementary and most of Middle school. I didn’t learn a damn thing in a room full of teachers and students yelling at each other. 90% of the time was spent managing behavior, 5% administrative tasks and 5% learning. I had basically no other choice but to do online school if I actually wanted to learn. Everything you are saying I understand and absolutely agree with. Education should absolutely be savored. Which is exactly why I don’t want to rush through college. I can’t wait until I am able to learn again, without that terrible environment. I had to do what had to be done to get me to the place where I can genuinely and deeply learn. I just want to start with a fresh slate, with k-12 school and “childhood” behind me.
@bgbg4us Ageism affects young people a lot more than older people.
You all have the money, you can legally drive, you can vote, you can legally drink, you can legally trade the stock market, you can work how many hours you want, you can go to a doctor.
I don’t mean to sound rude but please, I don’t want to hear it. You are privileged.
I am not your daughter, I am some random guy on the internet, you don’t know my personality or who I am alike.
It would be wrong of you to leave the home of your wealthy parents to get a job and pay your own bills? What’s wrong with supporting yourself while fighting for the causes you believe in? That’s what adults do. It’s easy to have high ideals when someone else is footing the bills.
There’s nothing stopping you from paying for college on your own either. Go get a job and commute to the nearest community college or 4 year commuter campus and take classes as you can afford them. A lot of people attend college that way. You don’t want that either though, do you? Your parents can afford to send you wherever you want so you’ll happily take their money and go.
You seem to want all of the privileges of adulthood and none of the responsibilities. That won’t make for a convincing college essay. You have to show, not just tell. An essay about how you should be able to live on your own in Manhattan at 16 because your parents can afford to pay for it won’t impress adcoms. You can mention the group in your application, but without anything of substance to back it up I think it will just be another EC.
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