App-eal

graduation is tomorrow night and i’ve been spending the last few days practicing my speech, trying on my cap and gown, obsessing over final grades, etc.

LOLJK i’ve just been attending graduation parties :)

but seriously. i need to memorize that speech. 

ended up with all A’s and i’m so excited. somehow managed to pull an A in physics and i’m quite ecstatic about that one. 

will blog more cohesively post-graduation. 

thanks for sticking with me! :) 

welcome to my new followers! :)

my blog is currently in a transition phase from high school to college. i’ll probably be blogging about graduation, senior night (we’re going to magic mountain in california!), summer camps/volunteering, etc. until i get to w&l in the fall!

if you have any questions about the college application process, summer camps, SATs/ACTs/AP testing, scholarships, internships, interviews, universities, etc., i would love to help you! i also love editing essays so i can take a look at anything you may have :)

yay, got the national honor society scholarship :) only 150 seniors got it out of 6,000 applicants-pretty shocked that i was one of the chosen ones!

whew. had ap gov yesterday and ap stats today. but now i’m all done with ap testing :) what a weight off my shoulders!

i finish high school in 7 days and graduate in exactly two weeks! it’s all winding down so fast and i don’t know if i’m ready. i go to a k-12 school and i’ve been there since second grade. and in two weeks, i’ll be there no longer.

tellementfroid:

taping fifty bucks inside your AP exam booklet with “please” written next to it

tranquiltea asked: Hi! I saw that you were accepted into Pomona College, and that is actually my dream school, can I ask you about it? What was it like applying there? And if it isn't too much can I ask you for some advice? Thanks!

Pomona’s application is not too extensive (only one extra essay). Plus-they don’t have alumni interviews! Which makes the process a bit shorter than for other schools. (If you do want an interview, you need to go to campus).

The question that I answered in addition was: What experience in high school has mattered most to you? How do you see this experience influencing your decision-making in college?

I talked about meeting Sandra Day O’Connor and propagating the use of civil discourse in our daily lives and how I will continue to do that at Pomona.

Of course, you need your stellar scores/grades, strong recommendations, and extracurriculars that you’re passionate about. Pomona is called the Ivy League of the West for good reason! All the students that I met there ended up choosing between excellent schools (Pomona v. Stanford, Pomona v. Yale, Pomona v. Williams, etc.) and they chose Pomona because they absolutely loved it-make sure that your love for Pomona comes through in your essay(s).

If you need any help with editing your essays or any more advice, let me know :)

Good luck with Pomona!

Anonymous asked: what are all the women's colleges?

haha let’s see how many i can get…

starting with the seven sisters we have wellesley, smith, mount holyoke, bryn mawr, and barnard. (vassar went coed and radcliffe merged with harvard). i know scripps in the claremont consortium. i’ve also heard of agnes scott, sweet briar, spelman, and simmons.

according to wikipedia, there’s around 60 women’s colleges in the united states. here’s the link if you’re really interested :)

nitzavim asked: I'm so glad to see you endorse all-women's colleges. underrated! i go to wellesley; such a well-kept secret i have to say

yay women’s colleges are the best :) definitely a well-kept secret!

this is one of the best posts i’ve ever read about women’s colleges. enjoy! 

im-always-hungry asked: So like i've taken EPGY for awhile now and I've been to the institutes over the summer, and indeed it was excellent. I was just wondering about the Smith College summer programs for Engineering, and also John Hopkins CTY & Duke TIP. I find those a little more sketchy than EPGY because they have all that gifted child projectory and blah stuff but they offer more courses than EPGY.

I have a friend who did both EPGY and CTY (actually over the same summer) and her experiences were really comparable-she had a lot of fun and learned a lot at both camps. I actually have another friend who did Duke TIP as well and I know that she really liked it-although her course was a bit too short for her liking (only two weeks). I’m actually not familiar with the Smith College Summer Program so I can’t help you out there.  

However, the most important thing to keep in mind about summer programs is that you’re participating in them. Using your summers to better yourself and learn more is exactly what colleges want to see. When you’re comparing programs at top institutions such as Johns Hopkins, Stanford, CTY, and Smith, I would tell you to attend the one that you like the most. It’s most important to attend a program you’re passionate about. :) 

Anonymous asked: whats your opinions on smith college?

Yay, seven sisters :) I love all women’s colleges (although Wellesley was the only one I ended up applying to). I know that Smith is a really great school-but I don’t know the specifics. Smart students, wonderful professors, a lovely campus, and rigorous academics-Smith has it all. I would actually recommend that you track the Smith tag on here and ask current students about their experience/why they chose Smith. I did that for several schools and it was incredibly helpful :) 

theclassicprepp asked: hi there! I was looking at your blog for some advice on W&l admission, and I was wondering if you could tell me some pointers for getting in? Ive already been told my grades ans sats are good enogh and i might play tennis for them next year but im really worried that they wont except me! Its the only school i want to apply to and I was wondering if you could give me any helpful hints on the applcation and admission process? Also, can you tell me about your interview as well? Thank you so much!!

I actually don’t think that W&L has a supplementary essay-so make sure that your common app essays are both really strong (if you’re planning on applying using the common app). If you want to apply for the Johnson (you need to indicate it on your application), I think it’s one extra essay and you have five different options to write about. I think that W&L is also really trying to add more diversity to the campus-so if you’re geographically/ethnically/socially diverse, let them know!

If W&L is the only school you want to apply to, I recommend applying ED. Their ED acceptance rate is almost twice of their RD acceptance- so you have twice the chance of getting in! 

My interview went well-I was interviewed by a W&L alum who graduated in the late 70s/early 80s and he just talked about his experience there and asked me to ask any questions I might have. He asked me about my extracurriculars, why W&L, and what other schools I was applying to as well. It’s really relaxed and not a big deal-the interview is more for you than the interviewer; it’s your chance to have any doubts about W&L cleared up.

Hope that helps :)

Anonymous asked: Harvey Mudd sounds like a good place. what made you choose washington over it?

Oh yes, Harvey Mudd is such a good school! (Best undergraduate engineering in the country! Plus, they have the highest paid grads in the country). However, although I do love math/science, I’m not sure that those are the subjects I’m most passionate about. Everyone at HMC is so tech-brained and I don’t know if I would have had the most fulfilling experience being in such a tech-y environment. (They do require that you take 1/3 of your classes in the humanities, which is a definite plus.) 

I really do think that I would have been incredibly happy at any of the colleges I was considering-W&L was just the one I ended up choosing because of the overall academic/social/financial situation.