Umm thats awsome that your going all out, but my first advice is to take the PSAT or SAT.

2nd is to not anticipate winning your schools president election (totally up to your peers, not your gpa and national chinese honors or w/e).

3rd is to chill out. Your only a sophemore, dont overwhelm yourself. Realize you are only about half way done with high school.

Go through a wikipedia list of all the colleges in the U.S, and write down each college that evenly remotely interests you.

Lastly- get a notebook, and write down all your ec's, groups, roles, volunteer work. Anything that you plan to put on your app. Trust me, this will make it soo much easier when you are applying.

P.S- Shower daily, and try to go to a party once in a while, so you can understand people as good as you understand pointless facts that will never be relevant to your future. Theres more important things out there than college.

its long cuz im reallly bored
- oop

Nono I deff get out. I procrastinate a lot, so I have time to do stuff, and I don't do hw on weekends. Aww I am not a nerd.. just an overachiever. OVERACHIEVERS ARE PRETTY
- renee

I wish i was a overachiever. It would make my chances tp get into a good college next year a lot easier. But seriously dont ware yourself out. i just read what i said above and it was pretty mean. Just remember to write down all ur volunteer work and ec's and to shower daily.. : )
- oop

like he said, have time for yourself. idk, but i'm not 100% sure that colleges will want to hear "1 hr a week math tutor." I'd focus on your volleyball, your NCHS, your camp volunteering, and maybe one other thing. all that won't mean sh1t if you don't do well on the standardized tests. you probably took the PLAN (sat:psat->act:plan) and the psat, those should tell you whether you need to work. you need to be getting in the 100th percentile in at least one, preferably two of the PLAN sections (not that hard honestly) and you should sit down with the "big blue book" and study for the SAT at least a half an hour a day this summer. same for the act. if you score 34+ and 2300+, your e.c.'s will shine like diamonds. that's all my opinion and I'm sure renix will be here momentarily to hemorrhage his @ssh0le about how i'm totally wrong.
- hopeful2getin

Yeah totally agree with hopeful2getin with the SAT's. If you can get above a 2200 or 2250 you will pretty much have a great shot at any University in the U.S.
- oop

all-righty, well thanks!

yeah, I actually slept through the psats (they were on a saturday), but I did get a perfect in the science, and reading/english parts of the PLAN (actually). My composite on that was kinda bad, because I guessed on the math section if the questions would take longer than 5 seconds to answer (b/c it's just diagnositc).

Oh, and oop, you are right about the election, but I think I will win for different reasons... high GPAs and honor society are pretty commonplace where I go.

Thanks everyone btw!
- renee

dumb
- xoemma