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I have a 3.94 so far in the first semester of my Junior year, I’m a junior now. I have an A- in AP Chem, an A in AP US History, A in Pre Calc Honors, A in AP US History, A in English Honors, and an A in Intensive Italian (three years of Italian in 1).
In my sophmore year, I had a B+ in Honors Chemistry, A in Trig and Alg 2 Honors, an A in Global Studies 2 Honors, an A in English Honors, and an A in Spanish 3.
In my freshman year I was extremely lazy and my grades werent as good as they should be: B+ in Geometry, A in English Honors, A in Global Studies 1 Honors, A in Biology Honors, and a B+ in Spanish 2.
All of the grades listed are unweighted and have no sort of cushion. I only listed the grades of 5 core classes(foreign language, social science, lab science, English, and mathematics), as I read somewhere these are the only ones that truly matter. Regardless, I had As in them anyway. The GPA I listed in the beginning is the GPA only taking into account my unweighted grades of my core classes.
I am in Key Club, Chem Club, National Science Honors Society, Italian Honors Society and the tennis team. Tennis is my passion and I play 5 days a week and am state ranked. I’ve been on varsity since 7th grade playing in the 2nd highest spot. I’ve played national tournaments as well as the high school state tournament for doubles.
I plan on playing college tennis. I have yet to take the SATs, but I have been studying for at least an hour everyday, and I take the Princeton review course in March, with only 4 students in it. I plan on taking the May test. The only school that e-mailed me was Dartmouth out of the ones I’m applying to.
Also, I’m an African-American male from Newburgh, NY (dubbed the murder capital of New York). Also I’m in the top 3 percent of my class in Newburgh Free Academy, a school so large in terms of population it had to be split into two campuses.
Also, my brother graduated from Harvard for his bachelor’s and Georgetown for his law degree. He’s an Olympic athlete as well, check him out! His name is Samyr Laine. I thought it would be important for legacy since Im applying to both schools. Any input would be helpful, my parents are confident in me, but Im not so certain, due to the fact that that I’m the only one in my family without a bachelor’s degree and at least one Master’s Degree (My parent’s are Haitian immigrants).
I’d appreciate a response from anyone who doesn’t love me haha
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Also, I believe I should get around a 1900 on the SATs. I’m going to take the SAT 2 chem, physics and History exams and am confident that I will score fairly well in accordance to the standards of the schools I’m applying to. I think this should be easy enough for people to read.

Yes but the cost of college and university is heavily subsidized for Canadian citizens and legal residents.

Hi all. I am very passionate about acting and after high school would love to get into an acting school for more experience and education about acting. Have any of you guys gone to any of the schools before, and if so what did you think? For people in general, which of these schools would be the best in terms of prestige and good education. BTW, I am more interested in film acting than in theater acting.
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Yale School of Drama
Oxford School of Drama
The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts
USC
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Stella Adler 3-Year Conservatory
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama
Also, which do you think are the easiest/hardest to get into?
Thanks! I appreciate all feedback and info. Love and hugs to all replies
PS I don’t care about whether or not I get a degree in acting, I just want quality experience and education about acting.
PPS If anyone knows of any good, reputable acting schools that aren’t on this list, I would be delighted to hear your suggestions!

Hello, Do you guys think that it will be a good idea to open my own English Academy in Seoul, South Korea? I am from America and would love to be a ESL teacher for young children. Does this job make a lot of money per month? What is the yearly salary? (please provide an estimate regarding if can support me enough) Also much money would I be making is US Dollars and also the South Korean Won? Would you all recommend that I open up my own academy or should I apply to work at one? Is there any helpful knowledge that you could pass on? I would also like to know what i should major in if I would like to be an ESL teacher, and also which top American Universities I should look into? For example, Stanford, Harvard, Duke, UPenn, etc. Any money smart tips that you could share? Also, should I get a part time job also while I am a ESL teacher or no? Thank you all for your help!

I want to get into a private university, like Loyola Marymount, Cornell, Boston University, University of Miami or Columbia. I’m at a California Community College right now, and will go in as a transfer. I have a 3.8 GPA and I’ve been volunteering at the Los Angeles Superior Court for a year. I’ll be double majoring in Psychology and Marketing, and want to be a corporate lawyer after that. Do you think its possible for me to get into a private university like those?

Hi, so I’m a first semester senior (second semester starting in a week), and I’m really concerned about my grades. I’ve kept a pretty solid GPA (As and Bs.. A to B ratio is like 6:4) throughout high school, all honors and APs. But this year, I’m taking 4 APs and 2 regular, and I’m getting a C in AP Calc. I’ve always gotten Bs in math, so it’s not too huge of a surprise, and I’m getting one B and 4 As, so I’m wondering.. it won’t hurt my chances of getting into my top choice, will it?
I’m applying to: UC Berkeley, LA, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Irvine, Davis. And to Columbia, Harvard, Case Western Reserve, USC, Boston College, NYU, Washington University. I go to a prestigious school and have decent extracurriculars, am 1st decile rank.
Thank youuu TT

1. $3 million has been granted to researchers at the University of California at Irvine so that they can play video games. The goal is to study how “emerging forms of communication, including multiplayer computer games and online virtual worlds such as World of Warcraft and Second Life can help organizations collaborate and compete more effectively in the global marketplace.”
2. The Department of Agriculture gave the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.
3. $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.
4. A Stanford University professor received $239,100 to study how Americans use the Internet to find love. So far one of the key findings is that the Internet is a safer and more discreet way to find same-sex partners.
5. The National Science Foundation spent $216,000 to study whether or not politicians “gain or lose support by taking ambiguous positions.”
6. The National Institutes of Health spent $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam.
7. $1 million of taxpayer money was used to create poetry for the Little Rock, New Orleans, Milwaukee and Chicago zoos.
8. The Department of Veterans Affairs spent $175 million during 2010 to maintain hundreds of buildings that it doesn’t even use. This includes a pink, octagonal monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.
9. $1.8 million of taxpayer dollars went for a “museum of neon signs” in Las Vegas.
10. $35 million was reportedly paid out by Medicare to 118 “phantom” medical clinics that never even existed. Apparently, these “phantom” clinics were established by a network of criminal gangs as a way to defraud the government.
11. The Conservation Commission of Monkton, Vermont got $150,000 from the federal government to construct a “critter crossing”. Thanks to taxpayers, the lives of “thousands” of migrating salamanders are now being saved.
12. In California, one park received $440,000 in federal funds to perform “green energy upgrades” on a building that hasn’t been used for a decade.
13. $440,955 was spent this past year on an office for former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert that he rarely even visits.
14. A Tennessee library was given $5,000 in federal funds to host video game parties.
15. The Census Bureau spent $2.5 million on a television commercial during the Super Bowl that was so poorly produced that nobody understood what it was trying to say.
16. A Dartmouth University professor received $137,530 to create a “recession-themed” video game entitled “Layoff”.
17. The National Science Foundation gave the Minnesota Zoo over $600,000 so that they could develop an online video game called “Wolfquest”.
18. A pizzeria in Iowa was given $60,000 to renovate the pizzeria’s facade and give it a more “inviting feel”.
19. The Department of Agriculture gave one group of farmers $30,000 to develop a tourist-friendly database of farms that host guests for overnight “haycations”.
20. The National Institute of Health was given $800,000 in “stimulus funds” to study the impact of a “genital-washing program” on men in South Africa.
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Hello i need to start studying for the SAT, i haven’t taken it yet.but there are so many different brand of books that its confusing. I read Barrons SAT is the best because its tougher than the actual test but then i hear its not recommended for first time test takers like me. Then i hear SAT official study guide was the best for first timers. then i see it has bad reviews on most sites. I am getting out of the military in 8 months and my university of choice registration ends in july and starts in march. I have not taken the SAT test when i was in High school. I really need a great book for studying. Please recommend.

Im a 21 year old guy, and the reason I ask this question is because I am young and in college. Im only feeling and getting older and i believe that life is too short to fall in love. whenever im hear of a friend being engaged, i automatically feel old and it feels devastating. i even begin thinking a lot about tomorrow.
first two years of college, i was in a comm. college so i rarely made connections. the good ole school & work. transfered to a university as a junior last summer. as far as career goes, i am ok.
i just want to play around. dont get me wrong, im a nice guy but im questioning if i have been living life to its fullest.
any opinion or advice?

I’m a high school senior in the US. I was raised in Latin America and attended a bilingual school for about ten years. I came to the US about two years ago, wanting to someday attend an Ivy League university. So, during my sophomore and junior years of high school, I took honors classes (such as Honors French and Physics, and AP Biology). I got a 4 on the AP Bio exam last year. As a high school senior, I’m taking AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Literature, AP French, AP Spanish, and AP Calculus. I have all A’s.
So I took the ACT at the end of last year and scored a 20. I wasn’t satisfied with such a low score. So, trying to improve my score, I bought The Real ACT Prep Guide and did two practice tests (timed). Weeks after I re-took the ACT, I receives the scores and noticed I got a 22.
I’m wondering WHY do I find the ACT so impossible to conquer. Could it be because I’m not a native English speaker? (I know, there are some kids who do better than I on the ACT. Could it be because they are more fluent in English than I am (since they’ve lived more years in the US)?) Could it be because I don’t prepare effectively?
I believe it’s too late now to be thinking of taking the ACT a third time since I’m half way through my senior year,meaning that’s too late to apply to a prestigious university.
If you’re reading this, I’d like to know your honest (unbiased) opinion about what I should do.
Thank you in advance.