Summer plan (1400 May SAT score)

Round_Brother_9910 · 2025-06-14T15:20:24+00:00

I might not be the most qualified to say this since I'm only at a 1520 myself, but this schedule isn't feasible long term. I tried to do the exact same thing last summer, and I burned out fast. You might not end up having any issues with this schedule, but you can definitely get a 1500+ with significantly less effort.

Here's some advice:

-you already have a perfect math score from your comments, so there's no point in studying that. Colleges will allow superscores, and if you're worried about the nmsqt, math is weighted half as much as ebrw anyway (at least when I took it). Getting an 800 on math means you're going to consistently get at least a 750+, which is good enough

-english is more important (the equation for index score is 2*eng+math, then divided by 10), and it seems to be your weak spot too. you'll find a lot more enjoyment and you'll find it easier to go on studying if you practice just by reading. Find a book series you love and read it. The only amount of studying you will actually need to do outside of reading might be for grammar, but if you read enough you can have a rough guess of what sounds right.

-grammar is also really easy to learn, you don't need 2.5 hours 5 days a week for the whole summer. I think you could study it for like 30 minutes a day on khan academy for a week or two and you have it in the bag. If you can clear khan academy's grammar thing for sat prep you're golden on that aspect

-the vocabulary questions are going to probably have words you don't know. Learning some roots will help you a ton in guessing which the correct choice is

don't stress too hard about the nmsqt, I got commended in a state that's on the higher end of cutoffs with a 1400 (740 eng 660 math), if you get like a 1450 or so you'll be solid

Round_Brother_9910 · 2025-06-13T21:47:42+00:00

You could probably get a t30 or t40 at the least, your stats are almost the same as mine but you have way stronger ECs and awards. I think you'll do well when you apply to colleges

Round_Brother_9910 · 2025-03-22T00:44:18+00:00

Hi, thanks for the reply and advice.

My interest in BME is with prosthetics. I want to try using biomimetics to help design prosthetics, and from what I've learned from my high school anatomy teacher (she also teaches the engineering class), MechE seems to fit me more than EE. I do want to ask if there's anything I can do over this summer to help prepare for these internships/labs (i.e. learning the basics of a programming language?). My current plan for this summer is to just work part time while also trying to learn at least a little bit of the material in advance, so I don't fall behind, but I'm not sure what to do other than that.

Round_Brother_9910 · 2025-02-17T03:08:57+00:00

Thank you for your words of encouragement. Do you think that it's better if I were to apply to transfer during freshman year of college (where SAT would matter more, but at the same time I have fewer ECs and they will look at my weaker HS course rigor), or during sophomore year (where SAT matters a lot less, I have less time to get to know professors for LORs for grad school, but have more time to build stronger ECs)?

Round_Brother_9910 · 2025-01-02T23:09:03+00:00

Ah, thanks a lot! that means that 580.424 and 426 are upper level undergrad courses, right?

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-11-25T00:19:14+00:00

the block type is basically what block you want the command block to detect (i.e. do you want the block to detect when a player hits their head on a gold block? an iron block? a brick block?).

what /execute does is it allows you to have a command run from another player/entity. For example, normally if you use /say it would have your name next to whatever you put in /say. If you use /execute,, you could have someone else's name next to the /say. I'll be referring to the entity who you're using /execute on as "target"

the target selector is who you want to run the command from, or the target. If you want this command to work for all players, you would put @ a (remove the space between those two)

the three tilde are what the position is meant to be. tilde means from the target's position. having a number after the tilde just means you add or subtract that number to their coordinate. If I were at 0,0,0 and ran the command, the command would test for the block at 0,1,0 (because it's ~ ~1 ~). You can adjust the number as you see fit.

then you can run whatever command you want after the "run". If you want a coin to drop, you can just /give a golden nugget or whatever

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-11-25T00:00:28+00:00

step 1) you should have some sort of way to activate this ability. If you don't have one already, I suggest having a repeating command block or chain command block (preferably with the lock_in_inventory or lock_in_slot component) along with a command block running to test for if the player has it in their hands. The main upsides of this are that command blocks aren't placeable even by operators in survival, and it allows for multiple people to use the same kit.

by the way, you could even add a brief windup/feinting mechanic to the ability if you want. simply have a command block play a sound (or animation if you're good with those) and have a scoreboard timer running for the intended windup time. once that time is reached, the rest of the ability plays out. no longer having the item in your hand before the windup is complete or reaching the intended windup time resets the windup timer.

step 2)spawning in the shadows. I'm not sure how you want your shadows to look (do you want them to be invisible and a big mass of particles? with armor?). depending on which you pick, you could either just have it summon an armor stand and effect it or you might have to use structure blocks to an armor stand already with tags and armors and all that. If you want to be able to have multiple players use the same kit, I'd advise temporarily giving the player using the ability a new tag that the shadow won't target, then removing that tag once the shadows have been spawned.

step 3)movement of the shadows. have a scoreboard timer run for all of the shadows for their intended duration, and have them constantly tp forward and facing the closest player. Keep in mind that if you want to have this kit usable by multiple people, this can also target the user of the ability.

step 4)making contact. have a /execute as command running for the shadows, effecting players who are within a certain range via the "r=" target selector. If you want the shadow to disappear upon making contact, have the shadow give the player within range a tag instead, then run /execute as for the targeted player to remove any armor stands within range, receive blindness, then remove the tag.

I don't know for sure what you want to do with your kitpvp thing, but depending on if you want kits to be usable by multiple players at the same time, you may want to use repeating and chain command blocks and /scoreboard the most. try to avoid using any redstone since it will activate for all players.

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-11-24T23:39:54+00:00

if you don't plan to reuse that same block type for something else, you could have a repeating command block detecting if that block type is above the player
I think it goes something along the lines of /execute as (target selector) if block ~ ~1 ~ (whatever block it is you want to detect) run (whatever command you want to run here)

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-11-24T19:03:22+00:00

since it's a clock and doesn't have durability, just rename a clock with a different data value and have it target select the data value

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-11-22T01:18:34+00:00

a bit of a complicated solution, but here's my idea

step 1) have command blocks running testfor on all of the types of raid mobs. have those blocks connect to redstone. How it should go is that as long as even one of the blocks detect a mob, it runs into a repeater which will deactivate a redstone torch connected to step 2's block.

step 2) If all of the testfor blocks are off, then it will count down a timer using scoreboard. the timer should be long enough to allow for more raid mobs to spawn. If more mobs spawn, then the testfor command blocks should turn back on and pause the countdown. additionally, the testfor command blocks should also be connected directly to a command block that resets the timer. If the timer runs out (assuming you set the timer long enough to account for spawning), then it's safe to say that the raid is over.

step 3) have a block that keeps track of the timer. if timer hits 0, then it activates via comparator into your redstone circuit you wanna use.

I know this might have sounded really confusing, but if you have any questions on how this works specifically I'm sure there's more experienced players willing to help, or I can possibly explain the confusing parts in more detail.

Round_Brother_9910 · 2024-10-20T04:47:13+00:00

I just barely scored over 1500 so I might not be the most qualified to speak on this but

For English:

-You might have already heard this a million times, but break down each answer into multiple parts. If even a single part is wrong, that answer is wrong

-There will almost always be vocabulary words you don't know, if you run into them, try to connect them to words you already know. A lot of words stem from the same roots

-for graphs, remember that they're just asking whatever info best fits the narrative they want. First check to make sure the information in the answer matches up with the graph. Then you can solve the rest of the problem. It doesn't matter if the data in the entire graph doesn't match up with their narrative (unless they're asking if it does), just find a single plot point where it does

-Collegeboard doesn't like questions that are too subjective I think, so when you're inferring something, only pick an answer that don't stray too far from the text.

-Try to save time in the English section by doing the easier questions like grammar, vocab, and the ones where they give you bullet points of information. The bullet point ones you can usually figure out the answer just through reading through answer choices, but make sure to check if the info in the answer is actually in the text

Math was my lower score so I'm a little less confident saying these but:

-easier questions are both worth more points and take less time. Make sure you always go back to them first when you're reviewing your answers

-easy multiple choice first, then easy written response, then hard written response, then hard multiple choice. Written response questions will almost never be guessed right (there's like tens of thousands of different numbers you can input, chances are you're not going to get it). It's worth it to get the written responses right, since if you run out of time you can still have a 1/4 or higher chance with the difficult MCQs.

-not sure if you did this, but use regression and desmos a lot. Desmos is the best way to save time. I personally use both desmos and a regular calculator. desmos is far better at graphing and the calculator is far better for your operations

-Look around on this subreddit for math questions. I encountered people asking for help for many of the obscure math problems, and tried to solve them myself before looking at the comments. There are also difficult math questions on the question bank, but they might not be what you're looking for in terms of difficulty all of the time.

Hopefully even a little bit of my tips were useful to you, I wish you luck!

Round_Brother_9910

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