#College List help, please!

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fossil hare
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Have you considered UW? Its pretty close to oregon

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Northeastern would be a good school for data science too

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I dont really know what reaches youre comfortable with, because theres always carnegie mellon for CS lol

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CMU, Cornell, GT, BU, all great CS DS schools

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yeah

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yeah i know ab those

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its gonna affect roster limits

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what colleges are u talking to?

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but anyways, UW is beautiful! My best friend is a recruited athlete there and shes entering as a freshmen this fall! its a big school but idk much ab the class sizes

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did you expand your college list and talk to more coaches than just UNL?

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how often do you talk to the coach?

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you dont need ncsa

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nvm its fine

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oh thats good

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was the visit official?

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when was the visit, and have yall talked after the visit

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where'd he transfer to

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you should def send him an email saying that you are sorry you couldnt run for him at UNL but wishes the best of luck at OK state and to keep in touch

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maybe he can find u a place there

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you never know! :)

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yeah please do that, dont end it on a sour note for the both of u

fossil hare
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yeah should be good

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idk anyone that does cs there tho, ik data science and bio ppl

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u applying anywhere ed?

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but honestly dont give up running, you just never know what could happen anytime yk

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what about high academic D3 schools?

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for running

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does CMU have xc?

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CMU, NYU, Tufts, amherst, etc

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yeah

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carnegie mellon is the best CS school in the country

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their cs admissions rate is less than 1%

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if ur a recruited athlete you could leverage that

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3.9 UW sounds pretty good

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idk how many aps u take, i dont do aps

sage marlin
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You could retake

fossil hare
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hii!

sage marlin
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Hi!!!

fossil hare
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catsip how are youu

fossil hare
sage marlin
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Good hbu?

fossil hare
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good good! my friend whos flying to seattle from seoul is literally filming me a vlog LOL

magic grove
fossil hare
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the science and writing really helped me out

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it played a lot into my strengths

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for sure!

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yeah

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yep, try shooting the coach an email

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try NYU

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and try like other high ac D3 schools

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Just tell him you’re planning on taking it in Oct

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Does ur school do ur recruiting for u?

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That’s kind of him!

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My suggestion would be to reach out to him on Monday, and tell him your first race is Saturday and you’re taking the Sat In October

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That way it gives him something to look forward to and will more likely respond to you

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Don’t fill it out yet, just email him yourself

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Do u have an email address for recruiting only?

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Like

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(Your full name) 2025

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@gmail.com

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That works too

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Honestly which ever way you feel comfortable doing it, I’m just sharing some tips from my process

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NYU, Amherst, uchicago, Emory is a good one

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High academic D3s

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Uhhhhhh

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Idk ab other sports but for my sport not exactly?

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I’m gonna be honest, a lot of the Emory/amherst/nyu runners are Ivy rejects

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MIT and Caltech those kids go for the school

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And Uchicago

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The rest mostly are LACs, so they go for the prestige and a major they love

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Most caltech runners are also part time geniuses

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When they’re not running

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They’re going for the school. Most of the T20 athletes are going for the school

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But they also have to have genuine love for their school or else it’s gonna be really hard and sad

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I absolutely LOVEEEEEEE my coach at rice, I love her so much she makes me so happy and she always cheers me on. It’s so SO important to have a coach that cares about you

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Wdym

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Yeah

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Its diff for D1 and D3 schools

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Idrk how d2 is

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Huh that’s odd

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Ik D3 schools don’t have guaranteed admissions like D1 schools, but coaches can assist their students through admissions

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Their recruits*

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I spoke to CMU NYU snd some other d3s

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I remember the Amherst coach telling me she can assist recruits through admissions, usually nothing goes wrong but it’s not 100% guaranteed either

sage marlin
sage marlin
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Oh nice! Gl

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Honestly I had a pretty high score just going in blind so I didn’t study much

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I basically just did practice tests

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I did have to review some of the math though ‘cause I lowkey forgot

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Idk what are you scoring the lowest on rn?

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Honestly not bad

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Going in blind that’s pretty solid

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Ok that’s great!

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Still lots of improvement and you’ll continue improving into October

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Oh ig one actual tip I have is I kept a record of which problems and what kind I was getting wrong with explanations for what the right answer was and why

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That’s sorta a general testing tip tho

iron thicket
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Yeah UW has 9th best CS in the country, really good CS Program great internship oppurtunities (Seattle)

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Also Purude!

analog bridge
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Oregon unis are definitely worth a look, also +1 for UWash (and other unis in Washington state)

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Gotta rec UNC because of our new DS major of course (very sexy combo with CS), maybe some NC universities towards the mountains (will have to look)

analog bridge
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UNC system is definitely going to prioritize in-state students, as most state school systems do, and it's not like we don't have any OOS students

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I know private schools in NC tend to have higher OOS populations (since they aren't required to limit OOS acceptance) but yeah UNC has a very rigorous CS program and our DS resources are really good too (both for "DS-centered" and "DS applications in other fields")

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Nope

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Not Chapel Hill at least

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Even the pre-professional majors (ones where you have to apply additionally), you apply once you're at UNC

iron thicket
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UW is so cool their campus is very pretty

magic grove
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Do you think it’s even with applying for cs to people out of state?

fossil hare
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2% means total acceptance rate

analog bridge
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Most rankings are bullshit fwiw; each ranking list values different aspects differently and none of those will make a school a better place you thrive at (inherently)

magic grove
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yeah well no bad options between any of them, all amazing universities

analog bridge
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Yep yep

magic grove
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wait we're talking about washington right? I personally think it's amazing but I feel like I have no chance

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other UW maybe, they're a great school too

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yeah awesome school

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awesome trees on the campus too

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is that where you go?

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congrats that's a great school

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are you instate?

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actually seems like one of the best colleges for future career opportunities

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at least in the tech area

iron thicket
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Did you get in for cs @celest aurora

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What were your stats

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I’m applying for cs instate aswell

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So I’m curious what it takes 😭😭

magic grove
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Oh wow that's another crazy good one too

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My school does GPA weird, was that your unweighted?

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For us my unweighted gpa is a 4.11, but just because they do it weird,

If I have a few A- for high school and rest are A/A+, what would that be?

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or I guess a better question what grades did you have for a perfect 4/4 Im assuming

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Ohh ok I see

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is that like a 3.8?

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ah I wish my school did things normally

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yeah fair

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is there some sort of calculator? or does the commonapp just do some magic with everything

iron thicket
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You have a friend that got in with a 3.8?

magic grove
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yeah il try to find a calculator

iron thicket
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I have a chance 🙏🙏

magic grove
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I think mine is good but it feels a bit generic

iron thicket
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Okay I got it

magic grove
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haven't done supplementals yet though

iron thicket
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I’ll lock in fr

magic grove
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when'd you start?

iron thicket
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😭😭

magic grove
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ah fair enough

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I started some August 3rd or so but still a lot to go

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worked out in the end though

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Ah yeah haven't done ucs yet

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Really true yeah

iron thicket
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Danggg

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It worked out tho fr

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I would kill for uw cs

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I will lock in fr

magic grove
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Right now my generic ones are

"Why x major" (obviously) and "What's your background"

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but still a ton of work to be done

magic grove
iron thicket
magic grove
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better safe than sorry

iron thicket
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I’m only applying to schools Ill go to

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So I’m chilling

magic grove
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smart strategy

iron thicket
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Hopefully k can get in with a 3.8

magic grove
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If you ever want a safety ASU will accept you in 1 week for cs

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no essays or recs

iron thicket
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But my school has +-

magic grove
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but it is hot and lots of people..

magic grove
iron thicket
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I already got wsu for my safety 🫡🫡

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Yeah

magic grove
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oh that's a really good one nice

iron thicket
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My gpa is only like it is cause of freshman year

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Wihotu freshman in at like a 3.95 😭😭

magic grove
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yeah I have to do a calculator or something because I have a 4.11 unweighted but it's out of like 4.33?

So 4.11/4.33 feels pretty low actually

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Same for me but 8th grade, I got a 3.84 because apparently I took some classes that counted as high school, language and history

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Oh interesting, A is also 4.0

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also my school says 93 is an A-

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another great one

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yeah no point, it's hard just because of how competitive it all is

iron thicket
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Dang what

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With a 3.8?

iron thicket
magic grove
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not sure but it's from the collegeboard

iron thicket
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Okay okay

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I’ll take that advice

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I gotta lock in fr

magic grove
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did you take it on the 24th?

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Same

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Practice tests! I wish the collegeboard released more though...

Additionally if you haven't already check out "tutorlini" on youtube, he has a great dsat practice problem series, and he comes out with videos every time before a dsat.

And khan academy of course

iron thicket
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I need to lock in for the sat I’m Ngl

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I’m doing October

magic grove
iron thicket
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1250 💀

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I didn’t really study tho

magic grove
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that's not bad though

iron thicket
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I mean yea

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Not bad

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But not good for top tier schools either

magic grove
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yeah that's all great, I also do robotics for my school and IT stuff haha, no website though unfortunately

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proposed cs curriculum but board said no unfortunately

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yeah, only team we have unfortunately

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it's fun though

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yeah just calculated it, I'd have a 3.7 if I count 93s as A-, but still happy with that

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3.97

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11282

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I know some schools have FRC which seems cool as well

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my school used to show percent, but they switched to letter last year

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unfortunately not, we didn't do that great

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yeah no clue, but you said you had a 4.0 so that's obviously good enough

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at least if that scale is the one colleges use

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Good luck applying though, I’m sure you’ll do well

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Yeah, if you want I can send you some harder sat practice problems that helped me a lot (math section)

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When I went on the 24th I only did the math so not sure how reading is

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I only decided to go 2 weeks before so I felt like my reading was alright as was (750) so just wanted to focus on hard studying for math. Fingers crossed hopefully it worked.

I should’ve committed earlier and studied for both but I was too late unfortunately

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On test day yeah I still tried once i wrote down some math formulas, but didn't go super hard

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Didn't just go c all the way, although I still doubt I got more than a 750

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sure give me a second to gather a few

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Got 2 wrong for sure, unfortunately they were stuff I never saw before, hoping for a 780 though, could be wayy off though

worldly python
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most ecs i have are bio related but im looking to apply more engineering/math based so colleges that dont admit by major or dont consider it as much would be great advice for me

analog bridge
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Also not ur thread so maybe better for #🛩-lounge-chat lol

halcyon coyote