bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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o.O |
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yeah but 1. good colleges dont like it and 2. you have to be a real TRYHARD |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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"Check out this cool new trick to give you more time to do your stuff! Colleges hate it!" |
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some of my classmates have 4
one of them tore there ACL, so no PE |
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I got 5/7 classes so yeah but 4/5 of them are AP soooo. |
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bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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I will have the choice to have a free period in senior year, and if I take it I will probably get a job.
Will this look bad for college? |
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bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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I would never have 2 free periods, just curiosity. |
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SRHLJoin Date: 2010-05-10
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We had 4 block days when I was in high school and it was very possible to have two free periods.
I had two free periods myself in the second semester of grade 12 (and they were at the worst possible times). I wasn't the only one either. |
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bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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My school is 4 blocks |
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most i could have is 1 and that would be stupid of me
if you aren't planning on going to like a top 25 school (ivy league, stanford, etc.), one free period is perfectly ok an some collees even like it if you have a job bc commitment and stuff? i think? |
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bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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not to be a downer on myself but it's unrealistic for me to get into an ivy league school
i want to go to a good school, but i don't think i'll ever be able to get into an ivy league school or be able to pay for it |
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if that 1 choice is a study hall u can get in a decent college easily. i take a study hall every year. it's not gonna effect anything unless you want to get into like harvard lol. someone i know took a study hall every year and still got into Colombia
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@mario most colleges expect u to have a job by the time ur in college lol it doesn't rlly got any perks except the fact it helps pay for ur stay lo. they like community service tho cuz u dont have to do that
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SRHLJoin Date: 2010-05-10
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Going to an Ivy League or Top 25 college is an extremely overrated idea anyway, as is the idea of having to go straight into college after high school.
Believe it or not, you ARE, in fact, allowed to wait a few years before going to college. My mom was already in her mid 40s when she went to study a course at the University of Alberta shortly after we moved to Canada. |
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it's better to go in right away SRHL if you have the money/scholarship that way ur brain is in the system and at most wait like 1 year lol. But i agree top 25 schools are overrated. My friends sister is a genius and she recieved dozens of scholarship offers but she chose to go to colombia which doesn't offer any scholarships and you gotta pay 75k per semester lol e_e
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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1 free period is not going to kill you...My school doesn't have "free periods" so I don't know what colleges think of it, but 2 might not be THAT bad...? I would stay away from it, even though Freshman year isn't a huge deal. And Mario's advice is helpful but don't worry about getting into Ivy Leagues AT ALL. Just because a school is regarded as a "top" school doesn't necessarily mean they're better than the school close by. Every program in a school is different, every professor is different, every curriculum is different...Around here UC Berkeley > UC Santa Barbara by a landslide, but for example, the Math program, UCSB is far and away better, they do things that relate to the real world, write research papers, etc...While Berkeley is just sit in class, take notes, take the test, get out of there. |
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SRHLJoin Date: 2010-05-10
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Nobody should have to pay 75k for a semester, let alone pay 75k for an entire 4-year program. |
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jimbobuckyTop 100 PosterJoin Date: 2008-06-01
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And you can always transfer to a better school if you're not happy with the one you're in. My dad and MANY MANY others have done the same thing. For reference my dad was at UC Davis for two years then transferred to UC Berkeley. Anybody care...? No...? All right then QQ |
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6.9% acceptance rate at colombia lol
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bookface6Join Date: 2010-12-24
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"Nobody should have to pay 75k for a semester, let alone pay 75k for an entire 4-year program."
Agreed. I come from a single-parent household that will have >>3<< kids going to college in the same year and I have no idea how my family is going to pay for it. I'm trying to take as many AP classes as I can to get the college classes out of the way, and I'm going to try to get a scholarship. There are some schools in the area that only make you pay what you can, which might be helpful. Of course there's financial aid but that can only take off so much.
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SRHLJoin Date: 2010-05-10
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Going into college also doesn't exactly work in the "brain is in the system" kind of way, considering that the average person will forget about 90-95% of what they learned in any previous school year anyway before going into a new one. Keep in mind that college is also completely different from high school or anything like that.
If you ask me, waiting a few years before going into college would be much less stressful both financially and mentally since you'd have enough time to earn some cash to pay for the ripoff known as "tuition" on this continent and you'd have more than just 3 short months to prepare for college.
Trust me. Even if you remove the financial sterss by having parents paying for your school like I did (it was only 3.4k per semester anyway), every other kind of stress can still smack you in the face before you can recite all 2328741 steps you'll need to learn and memorize to solve this question and that question. |
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"since you'd have enough time to earn some cash to pay for the ripoff known as "tuition""
bernie pls become president |
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