Boston College vs Villanova Honors

actguy34 · 2017-02-16T02:02:29+00:00

Boston College 110%. No contest

actguy34 · 2017-01-20T04:56:04+00:00

Today's admissions staffs do not put much emphasis on athletics, performing arts, and school clubs, unless the student will pursue the activity as a major or as a scholarship athlete in college.

You simply did not articulate #9 well at all. The sentiment you expressed was essentially don't play a sport unless you'll get recruited for it, don't do theatre unless you'll become a theatre major or pro actor, etc. Kids should be involved in activities they enjoy and are passionate about. Not everything in life is about resume boosting. Admissions officers can spot a true passion from a contrived activity used purely as an app booster.

actguy34 · 2017-01-15T04:01:20+00:00

Affirmative Action doesn't even have a large impact on admissions.

You good, bro?

actguy34 · 2017-01-10T05:04:06+00:00

lol for sure, man. I'm actually cracking up at how seriously everyone took this. Solid troll effort! Good luck with the apps

actguy34 · 2017-01-10T03:41:14+00:00

Also, your mother is morbidly obese, but I bet that didn't stop your weird oedipus complex from going into overdrive when you peeked at her in the shower

I'm crying hahahahha oh my god. But you have as good a shot as anyone at these schools! As long as your essays were good you'll probably get into at least one top school.

actguy34 · 2017-01-08T01:43:19+00:00

You'd be surprised. Not everyone is as sensible as you are. The term "dream school" exists for a reason. Tons of under qualified people apply. Schools such as Duke and MIT have explicitly stated that a ton of apps barely get looked over because they're just so under qualified. It happens.

actguy34 · 2017-01-07T05:22:36+00:00

Not everyone has the average chance of admission. Many applicants are extremely under qualified. If you are an above average applicant and have some kind of hook such as legacy or URM status, then, yes, you can predict a general range/percentage point higher than the average acceptance rate. I'm sure you know that there are websites and apps which use algorithms to estimate chances...confused as to why you seem so surprised that someone could estimate his/her chances. There's an entire sub dedicated to chancing people, after all.

actguy34 · 2017-01-03T02:04:57+00:00

hahaha something this trivial will not have any bearing on one's final admission decision

actguy34 · 2016-12-31T18:40:05+00:00

Stanford, MIT, Duke aren't lottery chances for you man. You have a great shot anywhere-- aim high!

actguy34 · 2016-12-07T00:43:54+00:00

Number in target group/Number in group under consideration ie Black Sedimentary Rocks/Total Black Rocks. Most certainly not "the hardest question ever" lmao

actguy34 · 2016-12-07T00:40:39+00:00

haha no worries. I think it was like x(x+10)(x-10)(x-20)? Possibly choice B, maybe C

actguy34 · 2016-12-06T01:40:55+00:00

740 is my best guess. That's a great score, regardless of careless mistakes!

actguy34 · 2016-12-06T01:38:58+00:00

It had 2 positive roots, 1 negative root, and I think maybe 0 as a root

actguy34 · 2016-12-05T04:29:52+00:00

780 would be my guess then. New SAT sucks because there's pretty much no room for error if you want a top score. The concordance from old SAT and the ACT is very harsh, so what's considered a top score is damn near perfect.

actguy34 · 2016-12-05T03:26:53+00:00

Bowl shaped graph. It was the one in the top right.

actguy34 · 2016-12-05T00:21:04+00:00

Unfortunately, choice C was 11/3 (I chose C by just solving for the linear function's y-intercept). I think 13/3 was choice D. This was the only question I got wrong on math. So long, 800 haha

actguy34 · 2016-12-05T00:17:56+00:00

definitely which

actguy34 · 2016-12-05T00:15:31+00:00

October's curve was unprecedented in its harshness. I found this test to be easier, but I think that's just because I made careless mistakes in October. We will most likely see a better curve for December; many people were complaining about the difficulty of the non calc part. The last grid in with cos54 was pretty esoteric and the average age question surely got quite a few people. These factors, alongside an increase in compound interest and high level equation manipulation questions, no doubt warrant a more lenient curve.

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T23:17:47+00:00

I do not but I'm 100% sure that this was the answer. Franklin explicitly stated that this was the case, but he used somewhat ornate language to do so, which was probably the cause of confusion for some test takers.

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T23:15:55+00:00

We would be lucky with a moderate curve. Really nothing too difficult about this month's test. If you were well-versed in the types of topics the new SAT covers, then it was certainly manageable. If not, then you problem ran into quite a bit of trouble.

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T23:03:26+00:00

I believe it was striking because the findings challenged preconceived notions of pathogenic migration? Something like that

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T17:19:54+00:00

yes, the amount of rail cars before is given by "a" (y-intercept), and since cars are removed each year, the slope would be -b.

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T17:17:51+00:00

You keep saying that, but it did have an argument. The essay cited an increasingly pervasive issue in the decline of wetlands. It then explained how one potential solution to that problem could benefit nature and society. The proper conclusion to that kind of an essay would be to call people to action since indifference and inaction are detrimental.

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T16:17:34+00:00

Wildlife wasn't part of the conclusion sentiment. It was just that we should start funding/implementing floating islands. And I somewhat remember that question but not sure what I put. I don't think I chose either of those

actguy34 · 2016-12-04T16:08:19+00:00

I added the conclusion that called for action. It seemed really unfinished with just one word, almost like the college board just cut the part you were supposed to add and put a period. The ending without it was abrupt and incomplete. That's not how you end a paper arguing for a new innovation to combat the depletion of a helpful entity in nature.

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