<p>I just graduated from the 8th grade and i dont know what classes to take in high school to get into a REALLY great college or ivy league (like harvard, yale, princeton, etc.) I would also like to study for the act/sat early so can you give me some tips about test peperation information. Next i wanted to know how you can get the Gates Millennium scholarship? Thanks and please respond :)</p>
<p>To begin with, calm down 
Classes wise just make sure you take pretty challenging classes and look up the recommendations for your prospective schools (@ Collegeboard website they tell you exactly what the school wants in a student).
For the SAT I recommend Collegeboard’s blue book, PR Cracking the SAT 2012, PR 11 Practice Tests for the SAT and PSAT and download the Sparknotes 1000 Most common SAT words. I also suggest googling “Kaplans 100 SAT Math concepts in a nutshell”. It’s pretty good for beginners. You’ll easily score 2100+ and hopefully (like me) in the 2200-2300 area.
For the ACT (I haven’t begun studying yet but will take probably this October or December) I have read that people recommend the Real ACT, ACT 36 (Barrons), 1296 ACT Practice Questions by PR, and Cracking the ACT by PR.
If you have a good GPA, SAT and ACT Scores, colleges are bound to notice you. But after that it just depends on your extra-curricular activities, entrance essays, etc. So I suggest you work on all the academic stuff first and then move forth with other stuff to impress the colleges with (all while keeping decent grades).
Good luck :)</p>
<p>Don’t worry about the sat/act. For now the classes you’ll take your freshman and sophomore years should be sufficient. You should start studying towards the end of your sophomore year if you plan on starting testing at the beginning of your junior year. As for what classes you should take, it depends on what classes are offered at the high school you plan to attend but ivy leagues expect you to take the most challenging classes you can take. Don’t overload yourself though by doing more than you can manage reasonably. A C in an AP/honors/IB course looks worse than a B in a regular course so know your strengths/weaknesses and don’t go crazy when signing up for classes</p>
<p>Thankyou for all the tips</p>
<p>For the ACT, it isn’t as much studying as it is familiarization. If you take the practice test and study the correct answers to the ones you got wrong, then take it again you will do better. Repeat this, take it as many times as you can, the more you do it, the better you will become. </p>
<p>You just finished 8th grade… Hell, I wish I had known what the ACT was in 8th grade.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Any more information? About any summer enrichment programs for freshmen?</p>
<p>We have an ACT prep class at my high school. I go to a 6A school so we have people come to do prep session seminars. It’s really not that much to stress over. ACT is not a smartness test. All it does is determine your readiness for college.</p>
<p>If you are taking the SAT, start studying vocab & doing reading passages NOW. You will benefit from it tremendously because vocabulary takes a while to build up. You can leave the math & writing for another year since they quite easy to increase in a short amount of time. Take the regular classes you are supposed to, take challenging classes as well.</p>
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