What is the most productive thing one can do over summer?

SheenR
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:00:17 +0000

Course list:
Pre-AP Algebra
Tennis
German II (advanced classes not offered until German III and IIII)
Orchestra
Pre-AP English I
Pre-AP World Geography
Pre-AP Biology
Speech/health (graduation requirement)

By the way, call me shallow, but if I wanted to go to some random university that nobody has heard of, I would go to my local university, which has an 80% acceptance rate. That is the reason why the names of all of the universities on my list are familiar. There would be no reason to leave home if it was for an unknown university.

To give you an idea of what I am aiming for, UT Austin is my safety (I think it has about a 40% acceptance rate). It is my safety because I am guaranteed admission for being a Texas resident and having a high rank. So, any university I go to is bound to be better than UT Austin (I don’t like it because of the football obsession but I will go there as a last resort if I am not accepted anywhere else.)

Here are the universities that I know for sure I would go to if accepted:
HYPSM
Brown
Cornell
Duke
Dartmouth
Rice
Johns Hopkins
Upenn
Uchicago
WashU
Columbia
Swarthmore
UCLA