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<p>Boards are quite a breeze if you shortlist stuff. Looking at past papers gives a fair idea about the exam 
The CBSE folks have less effort to put in when compared to ISC/ICSE students though. I recall my CBSE friends studying just 2-3 scenes of Julius Caesar while we had to go through all the 5 acts in Class X. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the ISC/ICSE curriculum.</p>
<p>You guys leave me curious… what subjects do you have in Class XII?</p>
<p>To all those asking where I am heading to, I’ll be going to UMass Amherst, and then maybe two years later try to transfer to Amherst College. And guys, seriously it isn’t that big a deal, I am helping you and at the same time myself; for I can learn to input some new things in my transfer applications.</p>
<p>To those who will be applying to UChicago- Use their quirky essays to your advantage. A friend of mine got waitlisted at UChicago, because her essay was really good. So focus on the essay for UChicago more than the others…</p>
<p>@Crystal31- Most of the colleges use Commonapp, but some of the state colleges don’t. Commonapp colleges basically have two sets of application, one is the common one having one essay that will be going to every college you apply. Another as people here have told you is the supplement. This differs from college to college and also the number of essays you are supposed to wrote differs. For example, Harvard asks for one optional essay (really, its not that optional!), whereas Columbia asks for four. </p>
<p>For those colleges not using Commonapp, the applications are somewhat the same, but you’ll have to use loads of sites, whereas in Commonapp its just one place from which you do your application work… Hope this helps :)</p>
<p>@Bisty- Shut up! You got through CMU and got waitlisted at Penn and yet call yourself miserable?!</p>
<p>I fully agree with you.
I follow ISC board currently and have PCMB and English.
The subject themselves aren’t as bad, as the way my school decides to execute their teaching.</p>
<p>@xNorth22: Home-schooling is not that easy and its not for everyone. One should only venture into it if he/she can read on their own. I do exams at home and also sit for CIE. I will be done with all my syllabus way before CIE A Levels next May, <em>insert wooh</em></p>
<p>@phr34k: Thank you so much for answering my questions I really appreciate it! It really helped me clear my doubts of how to apply. Thanks once again :)</p>
<p>Papaya@thats good going!
Gives you time to focus on all the essays and applications, if your already done with your syllabus :)</p>
<p>Hey 17ers.
So did you guys decide on what to write for the UChic yet?
I really hope other college essays are not like this.</p>
<p>Ironically to the mail which says the essays are “fun” and " interesting", which they absolutely are not! :|</p>
<p>And BTW, those of you who have received the topics for UChicago essays this year, can you PM me, those?</p>
<p>I want to know the topics too 
Please share the topics all those who have received them ! :)</p>
<p>How was the ACT exam guys (all those who appeared today) ?</p>
<p>1.A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde.
Othello and Iago. Dorothy and the Wicked Witch. Autobots and Decepticons. History and art are full of heroes and their enemies. Tell us about the relationship between you and your arch-nemesis (either real or imagined).
Inspired by Martin Krzywy, admitted student Class of 2016.
2. Heisenberg claims that you cannot know both the position and momentum of an electron with total certainty. Choose two other concepts that cannot be known simultaneously and discuss the implications. (Do not consider yourself limited to the field of Physics).
Inspired by Doran Bennett, AB07.
3.Susan Sontag, AB51, wrote that Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Write about an issue or a situation when you remained silent, and explain how silence may speak in ways that you did or did not intend. The Aesthetics of Silence, 1967.
Anonymous submission.
4.…I [was] eager to escape backward again, to be off to invent a past for the present." The Rose Rabbi by Daniel Stern
Present: pres·ent
<p>I am writing on topic 5! Lol, its the easiest one there.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting Ppaayas! These topics really require alot of thinking to write on them…
Wish you all luck with writing them :P</p>
<p>Edit : Do you have to write on all of them or just one?</p>
<p>Crystal31: One only. Lets now wait for the other supplements!</p>
<p>oh cool, writing on all six of them would have been a disaster I must say …
I personally like 2 topic the most… Maybe because I just did Mr. Heisenberg theory in chemistry last week :P</p>
<p>Lol hehe! I am going to bring out my volunteering efforts using topic 5.</p>
<p>The ACT was great. :)</p>
<p>So expecting a 36 mrinal? :D</p>
<p>As for uchic, probably going to write topic 6. Where’s Waldo, maybe play around a bit with the other ones.
Thankfully time is on our side oh this one :)</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be good if colleges superstore the ACT?</p>
<p>Anyone confirm/deny.</p>
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<p>I went to MVHS 2 years ago before I moved to India!</p>