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[theladyrose]

I just got my AP scores back-they're all 5's! How the heck did that happen with calculus?!
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And apparently I can read at 475 words/minute with a 64% comprehension rate, which sounds a little low for me. You can take the test here.

theladyrose is happy.

You're a rosy-cheeked ray of f'ing sunshine 24/7. I bet you smile a lot and little things don't get you down. Must be nice. Fuchsia's definitely your color.

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What Your Soul Really Looks Like

You are a wanderer. You constantly long for a new adventure, challenge, or eve a completely different life. You are a grounded person, but you also leave room for imagination and dreams. You feet may be on the ground, but you're head is in the clouds. You believe that people see you as a bit small and insignificant. People pay more attention to you than you think. Your near future is calm, relaxing, and pretty much what you want. And it's something you've been anticipating for a while now. For you, love is all about caring and comfort. You couldn't fall in love with someone you didn't trust.

Inside the Room of Your Soul

Your Bumper Sticker Should Be

Anything worth taking seriously - is worth making fun of

What Bumper Sticker Should Be On Your Car?

American Cities That Best Fit You::

55% Miami

55% San Diego

50% Honolulu

50% New York City

50% Philadelphia

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

You Are Boston

Both modern and old school, you never forget your roots. Well educated and a little snobby, you demand the best. And quite frankly, you think you are the best. Famous people from the Boston area: Conan O'Brien, Ben Affleck, New Kids on the Block

What American City Are You?

You Are a Coconut Jelly Bean

A bit of a wanderer, you are still trying to find your place in the world. You are obsessed with all things exotic and consider yourself quite cosmopolitan.

What Flavor Jelly Bean Are You?

Your Birthdate: May 24

You understand people well and are a natural born therapist. A peacemaker, people always seem to get along when you are around. You tend to be a father or mother figure to friends, even to those older than you. You enjoy your role, and you find that you are close to many people. Your strength: Your devotion Your weakness: Reliance on others for happiness Your power color: Lilac Your power symbol: Heart Your power month: June

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Comments

[dragonfly66.livejournal.com]

AP scores are out?!!! whatwhatwhat? And what did you take? I know about Euro and Calc...any others?

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Those were the only two tests I took. I found out my scores by looking at my oosk (random nickname for USC) transfer credit report-the College Board sends the scores out to the universities first, I guess, before they do it for individual students.

[horosha.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you, hun.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dear. I hope Nyssa has better luck with her new therapist *sends good vibes*

[eyepiece-simile.livejournal.com]

Damn you, smart person you, damn you *waves fist in air*

;) congradulations dearie!

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Thanks! For some reason your comment really reminded me of Groundskeeper Willie's "Scots..." quotation :P See you on Sunday with magazines!

[horosha.livejournal.com]

http://www.devedia.com/dosghost/music/bonjour.wav

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

HAHA; thanks for the link!

[malbal55.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS ANDREA!!!!!
YOU ROCK!!!

and, erm, how did you get them? i want to know mine...

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Many thanks, and congrats on your great scores, too!

I got mine by looking at my USC transfer credit report online :) I got the official letter from the College Board today as confirmation.

[leonhart5.livejournal.com]

235 wpm at a comprehension of 91%... I always knew I read too carefully.

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

Better to read and remember what you just read than skim and forget it all, I guess.

Yon Finances

[chineselollard.livejournal.com]

Yeah... the problem with that is, I didn't really like Boston University at all. As I sort of wrote later, they sort of try to say "WAARGH LOOK AT ALL OF OUR ALUMNI AREN'T THEY SO COOL" and that's really not the sort of thing I wanted to see emphasized at all. Also they spelled Jhumpa Lahiri's name wrong, and that stings me, in a slightly elitist sort of way.

Still, your point is definitely considered. My parents are very responsible and have laid some amount of money down for me year to year for college (bless them! bless them, i say!).

This doesn't actually mean that it's going to be easy for me, of course, with tuitions as exorbitant as they are, and I'm still going to have to take out loans and stuff, and work on getting merit scholarships. Also, I think my grades may mean less weighted against the grades of my competitors here in CT, because I have no doubt that wherever you went there was significantly less grade inflation.

Um, so, yeah. Congrats on the AP scores!

Don't really know who you are, or where you be going, but any guidance at all is always appreciated. Thanks!

Re: Yon Finances

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

I wasn't terribly fond of BU, either; I've heard their intro core classes aren't very good, and most of the students I know there like Boston more than the college itself. The only thing I really know about it is that they have one of the best anxiety and fear treatment centers in the US; I heard a great talk in a summer class I took from a speaker there.

And yeah, spelling errors in general tend to stick a college in the reject pile for me. I got a letter from one college whose opening line wasn't even grammatically correct which pretty much killed any interest I might have had. Some might call it elitist; I prefer to rationalize it as having basic standards.

From what I can tell, each college tends to recalculate GPAs just to even out the inflation/deflation playing field. You sound like a very intelligent person and a strong student so I don't think you should worry.

I'll be a student at USC (University of Southern California) next year, and I will shamelessly promote the school in terms of scholarship programs-seriously, it's one of the most generous ones I've come across, and they make an effort to support students of all socioeconomic backgrounds. Finances weren't the greatest concern for me (much gratitude to the parents), but on a whim I decided to apply by the December 10 deadline, which automatically considers all students for the big merit scholarships. I was really lucky and now don't have to pay four years of tuition.

Thanks, and best of luck with the college situation. Feel free to ask me about college-related things; I hope I can help people out. And sorry for the random intrusion.

p.s.:

[chineselollard.livejournal.com]

that reading comp thing sucks... it's pretty flawed.

Re: p.s.:

[theladyrose.livejournal.com]

It is a really ridiculous "test"-but hey, it's advertising. You didn't really need to read the section very carefully to get the answers right-I think I clicked on one or two answers that I didn't mean to click.