How should I spend by next four more years in highschool with the goal of an ivy-league college in mind?
155031
They care less about grades. devote yourself to something you love and maintain balance in your life. If you have exceptional skill, attitude and charism you'll easily be accepted. It's not about grades, its about applicability in that level.
1163519
GO NAVY!!\n First off good for you setting a goal in your life and looking at ways to prepare you for it. \n1. I recommend Studying in school first and foremost.\n2. Once you are in High School do ROTC. \n3. Join a Boy Scout Troop and achieve the rank of EAGLE SCOUT.\n4. Join United States Sea Cadet Corp (good prep)\n5. Get a copy of the Blue Jackets Manual. (study it)\n6. Be physically fit \n7. Eat healthy
935816
You should not be focusing on one school. If you are interested in Harvard, you should apply to Princeton, Yale and others that interest you as well. Keep in mind that these colleges are extremely competitive and selective, so be prepared to present an excellent application package with top SAT I and SAT II scores, excellent grades and recommendations, essays, and tons of community and extra-curricular work. For more information about ivy league universities, visit:\nhttp://www.macquil.com/articles/ivyleagues.php\nFor a list of rankings: http://www.macquil.com/rankingstests.php
37962
I would say a highschool but at least 4 years of college would help.
365735
Continue to go to high school and make the BEST GRADES POSSIBLE! The better your grades, the better chance you have at free college money. Go to a four year university, talk to your counselors when the time comes. Tell them the career you want and they will set you up with courses to prepare you for law school. It's called pre-law. After you graduate from your first 4 years (which are your undergraduate years) you apply and go to law school...this is a graduate school. After you graduate you take the bar exam for your state and start at the bottom of the totem pole at a law firm. Right now you should start thinking about what KIND of attorney you want to be. Prosecutor, defense attorney, estate/will law, corporate law...and the list goes on and on. You could follow your dream anywhere from an innercity non profit organization (meaning you dont make much but it is working for a cause) to international business mergers which would require an insane amount of work but great money. This is what you need to think about right now. "I want to be an attorney" is a lot like saying "I want to go to college" there are soooo many options.\n\nYou also need to start thinking about how you're going to pay for college. Talk to your parents. If you get a job when you're 16 rememer that there will come a time in the not so distant future when you have to be an adult and maybe pay your own way. \n\nAlso talk to some local attorneys see if you can intern there during the summers. You will only be filing and maybe answering the phones...making coffee that sort of thing but it will give you a better  idea the law and what direction you want to go.
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It seems as though you are an excellent, all around student and individual and would have a good shot of getting into any of these schools.  Therefore, what is the best school for you?  \n\nThere are a many questions that you'll need to ask yourself:\n1.  What subject do you want to major in when in college?  Are there a few? - Make sure that any university that you attend has all of the different majors that you are interested in.  That way, if you try one out and find out that you do not like it, you have the other options.  Also, is the major a good program at the schools that you want to attend?\n\n2.  Do you want a big or small university?  Many times small university are look down upon because they may not have the name of a Harvard or Yale.  However, big and small university are great.  The biggest question is... do you want and/or need attention from your professors?  Bigger university professors may not be able to give students individual attention that so many students need.  Smaller universities are able to give a lot of personal attention, allowing students to contact professors any time with questions and/or advice.\n\n3.  Location, location, location!  Will you like the location that the university is in?  City versus College town?  Weather... do you want warm weather where it never snows or are you okay at a university that it snows much of winter?  \n\n4.  Does the school have the extracurricular activities that you are interested in?  Academics is not all that you are at a university for... college is all about the experience as well.  Will you have the opportunity to get involved and are the activities that you want to participate in available on the campus?\n\n5.  Do you like the campus and university?  This you'll never know until you walk onto that particular campus.  If you can, try to visit any school that you are really interested in.  College admissions representatives are paid to tell you have great the university will be.  In addition, all of the papers and viewbooks that you get from the universities will show nothing but pretty pictures.  However, you'll never know if it is the right place for you until you step on the campus.  You'll probably know within the first 5 minutes of being on the campus if you'll like it or not!  All colleges and universities do campus tours - just call the admissions office and they'll set it up for you.\n\nGood luck!
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'06 - Finish school as fast as I possibly can in time to graduate early, hopefully find a new job, and plan my wedding for next summer\n\n'07 - Take care of my child when he/she's born and move in with my boyfriend ... Get married in the summer and \ncontinue on with college .... \n\n'08 - Hopefully graduate with an Associates of Arts or Science and find a job in the Sociology related field ... Continue taking care of my kid and living life to the fullest ... Try out new things that I've never done
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Harvard.  Oxford.  La Creme de la creme.  It sounds like you have the grades.  Wealth is NOT an issue (Harvard is excellent at handing out financial aid).  \n\nSo, you have a shot in terms of grades.  But Ivy League schools (I went to Princeton, and was accepted at Yale) and Oxford are not just looking for grades; if that were so, you would have NO chance (because they routinely receive enough applications with averages at 100%, or over 4.0, and SAT scores in the 1580 range) that they could fill the class with just those people.  So grades are NOT the only criteria.  But if you don't have very good grades (looks like you do, though) you won't even truly be considered for admission.\n\nYou must do something OTHER than be a good student.  You must have a passion (other than getting into Oxford or Harvard) in life that you have done something about.  Sports...play rugby?  Soccer?  Music...play an instrument well?  Community service: have you done something for your community of note, like volunteer at a shelter?  Go look at Harvard's website (listed below) and look at their admissions FAQ's.  See what they have to say.  \n\nGood luck!
670403
There are lots of different types of universities and colleges out there. While your current grades may not get you into Harvard, they will get you into many other very good schools. And if you are able to improve your GPA over the next year, they'll love that - schools often will weight later grades higher than earlier grades. You can also bolster your application with well written essays (you write well, so keep that up) and some strong extracurriculars. With extracurriculars, try to do at least one thing in depth - you don't have to do tonnes of stuff - in fact, it's better if you focus a bit and do a few things in depth. So if you have an interest, pursue it, and you'll be able to talk about that on your applications. And see how your SAT and PSAT go. \n\nIn fact, there are lots of schools out there that actively court serious students with B averages. \n\nSchools that you can look at - really good schools with great reputations that may fit you - include the following:\n\n\nIthaca\nFordham University\nMarymount\nSUNY Binghamton\nUMass Amherst\nBoston College\nQuinnipiac University\nClark University\nUniversity of New Hampshire\nUniversity of Vermont\n\n\nThose are just a few examples from the northeast. There are lots more. Some of these might be a slight stretch for you, but all are truly realistic.  \n\nThere's a resource, below, that might help you. You'll see a summary of the article, but I think you have to pay for access to the complete contents. Your parents may be willing once they see the summary. Or you may be able to pick up a copy at your local bookstore. I think it's, maybe $6.00.
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Haha... wow... I know the feeling.\n\nFirst let me say that you haven't wasted your time by going to school for four years. Think of it this way: You now have all of that knowledge that nobody can ever take away from you. Even if you don't use it for a career, the knowledge you've gained will help shape and mold you into a really awesome and well-rounded person. \n\nNow, here's the real message: Don't be afraid to put school on hold for a little while. People overrate college sooo much it's not even funny. I'm almost 21 years old and I've only had one semester of college... but I'm not stupid, and I haven't missed anything - my life has just been different from my friends who went to college immediately after high school. I can definitely say that I'm much more mature than them, and I have a much better idea of what I want to study. Now, going to school is for me - not because someone tells me have to get a degree. I go because I know what I want out of life, and what I want to learn in the process. \n\nSo, in short, it's ok (and might even be healthy) if you take a step back and just get some life experience in without college. You have your entire life ahead of you! What's the rush? Take the time to learn more about yourself (in or outside of school) and you'll eventually stumble on what's right for you. :)
796544
Freshman year, that way you can be sure that is what you want to do for the rest of ya life
451946
I'm an independent education consultant specializing in undergraduate admissions and the first thing  I tell my clients is that the path to higher education doesn't always involve a traditional  "college"; however, you do need to realize that if you expect to work in an industry that will provide you with a long-term career, as opposed to a job, then you will need to prepare yourself to pursue SOMETHING beyond high school.\n\nDepending on your life objective, a suitable path to higher education could involve:  military service, vocational/technical training, community/junior college, traditional college/univerity, or professional school.  \n\nYou might consider  sitting  down with your high school counselor to evaluate where you might want to go with your life.  Or, visiting with an education consultant or workforce specialist.\n\nBest of luck to you!
767850
In my opinion, the best way to get into a big name school/ivy is to convince the admissions staff that your interests/professional needs fit perfectly with their programs. They want to see kids that know what they want to do and will utilize their resources immediately (and then become super sucessful and make big time money). You need to convince Yale that their grad program is the only one for you. Research Yale's classes, professors, programs, etc. In addition to getting great grades adn doing all the things you listed, focus your undergrad studies and extracurriculars on a field that will set you up perfectly for a program that you are interested in and that is uniquely Yale.  \n\nThis process worked for both me and a close friend of mine. I will be attending Cornell next semester. My friend is enrolled at Columbia as a grad student.\n\nGood luck.
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depends on what you are graduating from.  Graduating from high school with plans of college- you should ask for supplies for an apartment or dorm, or money to go towards these sorts of things.  If you are graduating from HS with no plans of college or graduating from college- then money for supplies for an apartment or some supplies for an apartment would be nice. Also you could ask for gift cards to stores you enjoy.  If you are graduating from HS and are sure you have everything you need for college, then ask for a donation toward maybe a laptop or iPod or a Palm Pilot(all very useful for college courses!).\nCongrats on your graduation and hope you have an enjoyable future!
318867
It's easy, don't see yourself as a senior anymore. As soon as you start to think of yourself as a young college freshman, with four years to go instead of two months left, you'll be fine.
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The good news is that a number of Ivy League schools accept students on a "Need Blind" admissions basis.  This means that they will admit you into the school based on your abilities, but not on your ability to pay.  They have good financial aid packages that are mostly grants (you don't have to pay them back) and a little bit of loans (you will have to pay these back).  \n\nSo, I think your best bet is to focus on working hard in high school on your grades and extra-curricular activities, and rely on the financial aid system of the top Ivy League schools.\n\nGood Luck!
715883
Set your goals to only work one year if you do.  Jobs can suck you in and before you know it you've been there 5 years. From experience stay in school.  Your brain is still in that mode. When you get out you lose that school thought process. Apply for the school, the worst good happen is that you don't get accepted and you take another class to bring up your average and you apply again. Good luck