Ap lit score calculator

Period: 363.38 days

	Submissions	Comments
Total	1000	183379
Rate (per day)	2.75	502.13
Unique Redditors	596	37270
Combined Score	1067824	3114907

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

1. 49330 points, 49 submissions: IsDaouda_Games
   
   1. Gitee, China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public (2797 points, 371 comments)
   2. GitHub can now auto-block commits containing API keys, auth tokens (2626 points, 159 comments)
   3. Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack (2612 points, 222 comments)
   4. NVIDIA Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver (2303 points, 112 comments)
   5. Hackers find 122 vulnerabilities — 27 deemed critical — during first round of DHS bug bounty program (2138 points, 84 comments)
   6. Dear Europe, here again are the reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly (2108 points, 390 comments)
   7. A Google Cloud employee set a new record calculating the 100 trillionth digit of pi (2053 points, 366 comments)
   8. Nearly 100,000 NPM Users' Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach (1985 points, 406 comments)
   9. IBM says it will have thousands of quantum computers for sale by 2025 (1905 points, 361 comments)
   10. Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math Quanta Magazine (1729 points, 633 comments)
2. 23717 points, 28 submissions: feross
   
   1. Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users (3403 points, 242 comments)
   2. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10 (2110 points, 318 comments)
   3. You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now. Why? (1955 points, 589 comments)
   4. Why Twitter didn’t go down (from a real Twitter SRE) (1879 points, 661 comments)
   5. In praise of ffmpeg (1866 points, 251 comments)
   6. GOV.UK drops jQuery from their front end. (1742 points, 305 comments)
   7. Apple's Swift rewrite of its Foundation framework will be open source (1241 points, 112 comments)
   8. Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022 (962 points, 68 comments)
   9. Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill (942 points, 129 comments)
   10. See what JS commands get injected through an in-app browser on iOS (916 points, 111 comments)
3. 23337 points, 24 submissions: speckz
   
   1. NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages - C/C++ on the bench, as NSA puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift (4158 points, 834 comments)
   2. How we reduced our annual server costs by 80% — from $1M to $200k — by moving away from AWS (3469 points, 621 comments)
   3. Someone is pretending to be me. (1868 points, 172 comments)
   4. "http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http://" is a legitimate URL (1780 points, 174 comments)
   5. Coding Mistake Made Intel GPUs 100X Slower in Ray Tracing (1773 points, 174 comments)
   6. This Program is Illegally Packaged in 14 Distributions (1257 points, 431 comments)
   7. gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀 (1248 points, 70 comments)
   8. Devs don’t want to do ops (1176 points, 529 comments)
   9. Working in the software industry, circa 1989 - Gather round while I tell a tale of old. (1065 points, 119 comments)
   10. Maybe you should do less 'work' (903 points, 199 comments)
4. 22839 points, 24 submissions: iamkeyur
   
   1. Peter Eckersley has died (3162 points, 143 comments)
   2. 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer (2312 points, 341 comments)
   3. Please, stop disabling zoom (2269 points, 449 comments)
   4. I fucking hate Jira (2022 points, 662 comments)
   5. AWS switch from gzip to zstd – about 30% reduction in compressed S3 storage (1927 points, 155 comments)
   6. How I Experience the Web Today (1793 points, 262 comments)
   7. There are no open issues or pull requests on Flask (1480 points, 298 comments)
   8. How to Professionally Say (1414 points, 230 comments)
   9. The Julia language has a number of correctness flaws (838 points, 270 comments)
   10. My business card runs Linux (773 points, 85 comments)
5. 16994 points, 23 submissions: fagnerbrack
   
   1. Stop lying to yourself – you will never “fix it later” (2084 points, 234 comments)
   2. How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly (1607 points, 123 comments)
   3. Weezer's Lead Singer is still strong coding (1555 points, 161 comments)
   4. The regex comma dash dot [,-.] (1343 points, 223 comments)
   5. The Code Review Pyramid (1032 points, 118 comments)
   6. The Basics of how QR codes work (970 points, 66 comments)
   7. The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (968 points, 249 comments)
   8. Building a website like it's 1999... in 2022 (938 points, 171 comments)
   9. Headway is a self-hosted alternative to Google Maps which supports 200+ cities across the globe (894 points, 115 comments)
   10. The overengineered Solution to my Pigeon Problem (884 points, 67 comments)
6. 10459 points, 4 submissions: DonutAccomplished422
   
   1. Italy declares Google Analytics illegal (7252 points, 485 comments)
   2. Vodafone to introduce persistent user tracking (1717 points, 220 comments)
   3. US data transfer unlawful according to German procurement authority (1221 points, 181 comments)
   4. Finland is the latest EU country to crack down on Google Analytics (269 points, 35 comments)
7. 9327 points, 5 submissions: DrinkMoreCodeMore
   
   1. ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview for Level 3 Engineer With $183K Salary (3952 points, 643 comments)
   2. Typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX, is now open source (2693 points, 383 comments)
   3. The yaml document from hell (1515 points, 298 comments)
   4. The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry (859 points, 219 comments)
   5. Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax (308 points, 107 comments)
8. 8836 points, 1 submission: DeeplyIncomparable99
   
   1. “There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them. Disfavors people with FT jobs and families. Plus, your job won’t have people over your shoulder watching you code.” My favorite hot take from a panel on 'Treating Devs Like Human Beings.' (8836 points, 1395 comments)
9. 8572 points, 4 submissions: mitousa
   
   1. I spent a year building a desktop environment that runs in the browser (4978 points, 429 comments)
   2. My web-based desktop project just passed 250k users and it all started here at /programming. Thank you for everything! (2786 points, 207 comments)
   3. Forth: The programming language that writes itself (473 points, 99 comments)
   4. Announcing “Code” 2nd Edition (335 points, 28 comments)
10. 8029 points, 1 submission: piotrkarczmarz
    
    1. "Software is a just a tool to help accomplish something for people - many programmers never understood that. Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools" - John Carmack (8029 points, 653 comments)

Top Commenters

1. AttackOfTheThumbs (9732 points, 741 comments)
2. a_false_vacuum (7551 points, 128 comments)
3. DemiPixel (7194 points, 10 comments)
4. chucker23n (7072 points, 351 comments)
5. L3tum (6735 points, 142 comments)
6. 0OOO00000OO00O0O0OOO (6600 points, 150 comments)
7. Nashesvobodnoye (5881 points, 1 comment)
8. Worth_Trust_3825 (5709 points, 368 comments)
9. dominik-braun (5228 points, 78 comments)
10. renok_archnmy (4901 points, 143 comments)

Top Submissions

1. “There should never be coding exercises in technical interviews. It favors people who have time to do them. Disfavors people with FT jobs and families. Plus, your job won’t have people over your shoulder watching you code.” My favorite hot take from a panel on 'Treating Devs Like Human Beings.' by DeeplyIncomparable99 (8836 points, 1395 comments)
2. "Software is a just a tool to help accomplish something for people - many programmers never understood that. Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools" - John Carmack by piotrkarczmarz (8029 points, 653 comments)
3. Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub by geek_noob (7835 points, 774 comments)
4. Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely by Discovensco (7453 points, 1361 comments)
5. Italy declares Google Analytics illegal by DonutAccomplished422 (7252 points, 485 comments)
6. Terry Davis, an extremely talented programmer who was unfortunately diagnosed with schizophrenia, made an entire operating system in a language he made by himself, then compiled everything to machine code with a compiler he made himself. by BitPax (6700 points, 906 comments)
7. StackOverflow to ban ChatGPT generated answers with possibly immediate suspensions of up to 30 days to users without prior notice or warning by 3urny (6633 points, 840 comments)
8. Frontend developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on by AJ12AY (6555 points, 573 comments)
9. "Dev burnout drastically decreases when your team actually ships things on a regular basis. Burnout primarily comes from toil, rework and never seeing the end of projects." This was by far the the best lesson I learned this year and finally tracked down the the talk it was from. Hope it helps. by Difficult_Pop_7689 (6472 points, 321 comments)
10. There aren't that many uses for blockchains by calp (6435 points, 2228 comments)

Top Comments

1. 6466 points: DemiPixel's comment in ChatGPT Passes Google Coding Interview for Level 3 Engineer With $183K Salary
2. 5881 points: Nashesvobodnoye's comment in I scraped 7M programming job offers for 8 months and here are the most demanded programming languages
3. 4086 points: 3CN's comment in NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages - C/C++ on the bench, as NSA puts its trust in Rust, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Swift
4. 3876 points: blind3rdeye's comment in StackOverflow to ban ChatGPT generated answers with possibly immediate suspensions of up to 30 days to users without prior notice or warning
5. 3718 points: Karenomegas's comment in Twitter Source Code Leaked on GitHub
6. 3188 points: omnilynx's comment in You should be reading academic computer science papers
7. 2575 points: ForSureLying's comment in How we reduced our annual server costs by 80% — from $1M to $200k — by moving away from AWS
8. 2537 points: 3131961357's comment in Atlassian to cease all operations in Russia
9. 2461 points: itijara's comment in Google announces a new OS written in Rust
10. 2461 points: renok_archnmy's comment in Toyota Accidently Exposed A Secret Key Publicly On GitHub For Five Years

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Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race/Ethnicity: White/Eastern European Jewish
• Residence: Texas
• Income Bracket: 250k+
• Type of School: Public, students must pass "gifted and talented" test to attend
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A

Intended Major(s): Women's/Sexuality/Gender Studies
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.59 weighted (school doesn't do unweighted)
• Rank (or percentile): N/A
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 9 honors, 11 AP
• Senior Year Course Load: Scientific Research/Design, Statistics 2 Honors, AP English Literature, AP Macroeconomics, AP Government, AP European History, AP Psychology

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• ACT: 33 (35E, 29M, 36R, 31S)

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Social Justice - Founded coalition of artists donating profits from commissions to rotating charities every 3 months.
2. Internship - interpret curriculum for LGBTQ+ diversity training for medical professionals into interactive lesson plans and videos.
3. LGBT - Events chair of school GSA
4. Other Club/Activity - Founded school's fashion club (serves as a sustainable fashion activism club)
5. Religious - President of school JSU, stepped down senior year to allow for new leadership, doubled club membership from pre pandemic
6. Religious - treasurer of local youth Jewish group
7. TheateDrama - campaign director of social committee, assistant directed production and participated in varying degrees in a variety of plays throughout highschool
8. Theatedrama - taught at a theatre summer camp for 11-15 year olds
9. Internship - at the mayor's office, helped develop app for local art tours
10. Work(Paid) - worked at local pottery painting shop

Letters of Recommendation
AP Research Teacher - Had a difficult beginning of the year in her class but she was able to see me grow as a student and I ended up doing really well on the AP and found a passion for humanities related research that I want to continue in college, I was able to read the letter and it was very good
AP English Language + Creative Writing - Hyped me up, probably talked about how I'm a good storyteller and my creativity. He is my homeroom teacher so we have a great relationship
AP Statistics and Statistics 2 - Did not do well in his AP class Junior year due to struggling mental health, took his optional secondary statistics class so we have a good relationship, I believe he spoke a lot about my growth.
Interviews
All the interviews went fairly well I believe, I managed to connect with the interviewers pretty well and got to talk a lot but also ask a lot of engaging questions.
Essays
Personal Statement - Spent a really long time on it, multiple people cried after reading it so I believe it was good
Supplements were all okay but not my best writing, especially compared to personal statement
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:

• Brandeis University (Jan 2024 Admission/RD, Legacy)
• Clark University (EA, Merit Scholarship)
• Connecticut College (RD, Merit Scholarship)
• Curry College (Rolling)
• Gettysburg College (EA, Deferred initially but awarded Merit Scholarship)
• Lafayette College (RD)
• Lasell University (Rolling)
• Sarah Lawrence College (EA, Merit Scholarship)
• Skidmore College (RD)
• Trinity College (RD)
• Union College NY (EA, Merit Scholarship)
• Wheaton College MA (EA, Merit Scholarship)

Waitlists:

• Bryn Mawr College (RD, accepted waitlist spot and will see what happens)

Rejections:

• Smith College (ED, was my top choice)
• Mount Holyoke College (ED2, was second choice)
• Vassar College (RD)
• Wellesley College (RD)
• Williams College (RD)

Additional Information:
A big part of my application was the explanation for my low GPA. In the first 3 years of highschool I received Cs in my math and science classes and struggled a lot, in the application I took responsibility for what happened but also explained why my GPA was the way it was. All through highschool my grades were on an upward trend and they increased exponentially in the first semester of senior year. I also spoke about this in interviews and my rec letters mentioned it so I believe this was fully explained.
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Final Thoughts:
I came into this process convinced that Smith College was the perfect place for me, so of course I was disappointed. However, I was more disappointed by what happened with Mount Holyoke. When I was rejected, I noticed that the college had made the decision (ED2) without waiting for my senior year grades to come in. In my letter they stated that they liked me a lot but wanted to make sure I was prepared so they wanted me to transfer after receiving strong grades at another institution. I am confident that if they had seen my senior year grades my result there would have been different, especially after receiving acceptances from so many more selective schools. Overall, I am very happy with my results. I do not know where I will end up attending as I have yet to visit, but I am very grateful for all the options I have to choose from. If I get into Bryn Mawr, I'll probably go there but I would like to visit all my options first. I hope everyone reading this has great luck!

I want to preface this with the fact that I did get into all my safeties, so it's not like I have nowhere to go.
So far, I've been waitlisted by every single one of my top choice schools so far: Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Rice, and NYU....... (technically, I was also rejected by Columbia ED)
Obviously, there will be more school decisions coming out in the next coming days, but this continuous stream of being waitlisted is really affecting me. I have a 4.55 GPA, top 6% of my class, 1550 SAT, a whole bunch of 4 and 5 AP scores, I've studied abroad, I speak four languages, I've done everything I could think of to try and boost my college application................
I've worked my whole life to try and get into at least one of those top-choice schools, and I feel so dejected. Being waitlisted like this feels like a slap in the face. It's like the schools are telling me that I was so close to being good enough... if I had done just one thing more, maybe I would've been accepted.
I feel like everything I've done in my life so far has amounted to nothing. I gave up so much for these stupid universities.

Hi! I’m applying for a master’s program in GradCAS. The application asks for total credit hours and GPA, and the system will calculate quality points as a result.
Do I include transfer hours (all of which are high school AP courses that gave me credit but do NOT contribute toward my undergraduate GPA), or just institutional hours (which are taken at the uni and DO count toward the GPA)?
Pls help :p thx

Demographics

• Gender: f
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: west coast
• Income Bracket: no aid needed
• Type of School: public normal
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none

**Intended Major(s) anything premed
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): one B throughout 7 semesters (AP Chem☠️☠️☠️)
• Rank (or percentile): no but top 5% according to my counselor
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 9 APs before senior year, a few honors
• Senior Year Course Load: AP (lit, gov, psych). MVC, Diff eq, organic chem 1&2

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1520 (730RW, 790M) what my Asian mom thinks as what got me rejected
  
• AP/IB: 5x 5’s, 3x 4’s
  
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): nothing, toefl waived
  

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Legit research (translational, med related) with authorship 1000+ hrs, great rec from PI
   
2. Physician shadowing 150+ hrs, hope this was reflected in recs as it was the hardest activity to get for me even though it doesn’t look “prestigious”, lots of cold emailing and should’ve gotten rec from MDs but didn’t have space
   
3. Hospital volunteering, 150+ hrs
   
4. HOSA, chapter President, regional and statewide impact
   
5. School science club founder (my school doesn’t really care abt academics and it was quite a lot of work doing this but I guess to admissions there’s no significance at all)
   
6. Science and engineering competition thing, won some award
   
7. Copresident of an org sponsored by school ptsa, teach children cooking
   
8. Engineering summer program, not that selective, got college credit
   
9. Tutoring
   
10. Another tutoring, for music tho
    

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
6 hosa awards (worst one is top 10 in state, best one is top 3 international)
USABO merit 💀💀💀 (according to my Asian mom another thing that got me rejected)
Letters of Recommendation
(Briefly describe relationships with your recommenders and estimated rating.)
Can’t be bad, 8-10 range
Interviews
(Briefly reflect on interview experiences, if applicable.) Stanford: 9/10
Harvard: 8/10
No interview from Yale 💀
Essays
Nothing to say, can’t be bad (read by former AO) but I thought my supp for vandy was really good (also used in yale and duke) but I’m rejected so who knows
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances:
UCSD
UCI
CWRU EA☠️☠️☠️ (not yield protected means I’m not good enough according to my Asian mom)
UW Seattle
Waitlists:
UCLA
ROCHESTER💀
NEU
Rejections:
Every single reach school except UCLA:
JHU ED☠️
USC
Northwestern
Swarthmore
Vandy
Waiting on: ready to be rejected by all
Berkeley (already no chance according to forbidden vs not authorized)
HYS
Penn
Duke
Cornell
Emory
Columbia
Brown
Additional Information: No reach acceptance and being intl, coupled with classmates with lower stats getting into better schools and the fact that my Asian mom is probably the most judgmental person you’ll meet makes me feel absolutely worthless, I got into good places but compared to people in my school who did less work this just sucked, I know it’s not meritocratic but still somehow I always thought I could do better than this Don’t even know how to tell my recommenders, especially my counselor, who wrote great recs and think I will land a t20

Demographics: 16yo, Indian male, large super competitive Texas school, junior
Intended major: computer science, maybe veterinary after
Hooks: potential college athlete for football
Stats: 1. 1330 SAT (710 RW, 620 math 😭😭), will take another in June and act in April

1. 3.6 UW cumulative, 3.8 gpa this year, 4.3 W (out of 4.5 since I'm taking 3 APs)
   
2. 3 APs right now (APUSH, APCSP, AP Lang), took 1 last year (WHAP, 5 on exam), will take 3-4 next year (APES, AP Econ/Gov, AP Lit, potentially AP Stats)
   

ECs: 1. Play football, co-captain, could maybe play in college, since sophomore year

1. Orchestra since 4th grade, section leader
   
2. NHS
   
3. Tri-M (music honor society)
   
4. DECA since freshman year, 2x state qualifier, appointed one of over 300 members to be a coach to help members
   
5. President of computer science club
   
6. Secretary/VP of cyber security club
   
7. Boy Scouts since freshman year, almost star rank, served as patrol leader last term and currently appointed troop guide to help younger scouts
   
8. Developed several games and applications using python and c++
   
9. Looking for some cs related programs in the summer, but I'll be busy so idk how many or if any I could attend
   

In state schools, ranked most to least: 1. Texas AM-College Station (right now my biggest target) 2. UT Austin 3. UT Dallas (realistically my second choice) 4. Texas Tech (safety I feel) 5. UNT (safety)
Oos, ranked most to least: 1. UMich (super reach ik) 2. UWash (another super reach) 3. UC Irvine (reach) 4. UIUC (super reach) 5. Oklahoma state (safety) 6. UOklahoma (safety) 7. Kansas State 8. Arkansas

Demographics: 16yo, Indian male, large super competitive Texas school, junior
Intended major: computer science, maybe veterinary after
Hooks: potential college athlete for football
Stats: 1. 1330 SAT (710 RW, 620 math 😭😭), will take another in June and act in April

1. 3.6 UW cumulative, 3.8 gpa this year, 4.3 W (out of 4.5 since I'm taking 3 APs)
   
2. 3 APs right now (APUSH, APCSP, AP Lang), took 1 last year (WHAP, 5 on exam), will take 3-4 next year (APES, AP Econ/Gov, AP Lit, potentially AP Stats)
   

ECs: 1. Play football, co-captain, could maybe play in college, since sophomore year

1. Orchestra since 4th grade, section leader
   
2. NHS
   
3. Tri-M (music honor society)
   
4. DECA since freshman year, 2x state qualifier, appointed one of over 300 members to be a coach to help members
   
5. President of computer science club
   
6. Secretary/VP of cyber security club
   
7. Boy Scouts since freshman year, almost star rank, served as patrol leader last term and currently appointed troop guide to help younger scouts
   
8. Developed several games and applications using python and c++
   
9. Looking for some cs related programs in the summer, but I'll be busy so idk how many or if any I could attend
   

In state schools, ranked most to least: 1. Texas AM-College Station (right now my biggest target) 2. UT Austin 3. UT Dallas (realistically my second choice) 4. Texas Tech (safety I feel) 5. UNT (safety)
Oos, ranked most to least: 1. UMich (super reach ik) 2. UWash (another super reach) 3. UC Irvine (reach) 4. UIUC (super reach) 5. Oklahoma state (safety) 6. UOklahoma (safety) 7. Kansas State 8. Arkansas

Demographics: 16yo, Indian male, large super competitive Texas school, junior
Intended major: computer science, maybe veterinary after
Hooks: potential college athlete for football
Stats: 1. 1330 SAT (710 RW, 620 math 😭😭), will take another in June and act in April

1. 3.6 UW cumulative, 3.8 gpa this year, 4.3 W (out of 4.5 since I'm taking 3 APs)
   
2. 3 APs right now (APUSH, APCSP, AP Lang), took 1 last year (WHAP, 5 on exam), will take 3-4 next year (APES, AP Econ/Gov, AP Lit, potentially AP Stats)
   

ECs: 1. Play football, co-captain, could maybe play in college, since sophomore year

1. Orchestra since 4th grade, section leader
   
2. NHS
   
3. Tri-M (music honor society)
   
4. DECA since freshman year, 2x state qualifier, appointed one of over 300 members to be a coach to help members
   
5. President of computer science club
   
6. Secretary/VP of cyber security club
   
7. Boy Scouts since freshman year, almost star rank, served as patrol leader last term and currently appointed troop guide to help younger scouts
   
8. Developed several games and applications using python and c++
   
9. Looking for some cs related programs in the summer, but I'll be busy so idk how many or if any I could attend
   

In state schools, ranked most to least: 1. Texas AM-College Station (right now my biggest target) 2. UT Austin 3. UT Dallas (realistically my second choice) 4. Texas Tech (safety I feel) 5. UNT (safety)
Oos, ranked most to least: 1. UMich (super reach ik) 2. UWash (another super reach) 3. UC Irvine (reach) 4. UIUC (super reach) 5. Oklahoma state (safety) 6. UOklahoma (safety) 7. Kansas State 8. Arkansas

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race/Ethnicity: Indian
• Residence: NJ
• Income Bracket: $250k+?
• School: Public magnet school

Intended Major(s): Biochemistry, Biology, Public Health, Neuroscience, Cell Biology (depending on the school)
Academics

• GPA: 3.70 UW, 4.30 W
• Rank (or percentile): School doesn't rank
• # of APs: 7 APs (Bio (3), Chem (3), Lang (5), APUSH (3), APES (TBD), Calc AB (TBD), Lit (TBD) Did not submit scores lol
• SAT: 1550 (770 math & 780 ERW)
• 6 dual-enrollment courses through my high school

Extracurriculars/Activities

• EMT with 200+ calls and 800+ hours started junior year
• Model UN President participated all 4 years, went to many conferences and won 10+ awards
• JSA (Junior State of America) President and State Council Member participated 2 years, didn't get to go to conventions because of administrative issues and COVID-19
• HOSA Secretary participated all 4 years, won awards for this
• Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgical Skills Internship cool experience, got to learn from Stanford cardiothoracic surgeons, often best in their field
• Hospital volunteer with 50+ hours started summer before senior year
• Competitive Violinist school does not have orchestra but did competitions and private lessons outside of school, all 4 years
• Interact Club member of 2 years
• Indian Classical Vocalist received distinction in first 3 levels of exams, also all 4 years

Honors/Awards

• 2nd Place at NJ HOSA Southern Regional Conference
• 4th Place at NJ HOSA State Leadership Conference
• AP Scholar with Honor
• NMSQT Commended Scholar (got a 1470 on the psat and VERY mad bc I could've qualified for semifinalist in literally any other state :(
• 10+ MUN Awards
• 2nd place in school and district tech expo
• 2nd place and 3rd place in violin competitions, invited to perform at Carnegie Hall
• President's Volunteer Service Award - Gold

Letters of Recommendation
English teacher who I had for 2 years: 8/10? Never saw it, and I think he liked me and he's a great writer so idrk
APUSH teacheMUN advisor: Knew him for all 4 years of high school, knows me pretty well, knows my MUN accomplishments, solid letter? 7.5-8/10
Chem/Physics Teacher: Sucked at physics (which was the class I was taking with her when I asked lol), only submitted to schools that required a science letter of rec, knows she only writes about SAT scores and has a generic template, 5/10
Interviews
Brandeis University: 10/10, I think it went really well, the interviewer said he was new to interviews and my answers were very well thought-out imo
UPenn: 9/10, Super smooth, felt like a conversation, and the interviewer said one of her kids wanted to apply to my high school lol, never replied to my follow-up/thank you email tho but maybe she was busy
Northwestern: 4/10, Was late to the interview (yeah ik), interview felt rushed and I was really awkward, one of my first interviews
Essays
Personal Statement: I give it a solid 7.5/10, wrote about my name and connected it to my activities, I think it was pretty decent
Supplementals: 9/10, Absolute bangers, were very proud of them and put a lot of thought into them for each school.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/RD)
Acceptances:

• Penn State (University Park)
• Pitt (David C. Frederick Honors College)
• TCNJ
• NJIT (ADHC + approx 5k a year so dirt cheap)
• Northeastern (NU.in for neuroscience, still not sure how I feel about this one)
• Rutgers (highkey love rutgers despite being an NJ student but no honors program or college so disappointed :(
• Drexel (didn't apply to honors programs cuz I was lazy and knew I didn't really wanna go lol)
• Stevens (Accepted + $32,000 per year)
• SHU ("Accelerated MD program" if you can really call it that + $122,500)
• USF ($40k a year scholarship)
• UMD (FIRE program)
• Temple (Honors + full tuition scholarship)
• Brandeis ($60k for 4 years scholarship)
• Stony Brook (rejected from all honors programs??? but $44,000 scholarship for 4 years)
• SUNY Poly (basically full tuition scholarship)
• Purchase College (basically full tuition scholarship)
• NYIT BS/DO ($27,000 per year scholarship)
• Rutgers-N HC
• Hofstra (HC + $136k scholarship)

Waitlists

• GWU????? This one hurt my ego
• U of Rochester
• Case Western feel like everyone got waitlisted from here this year lol

Rejections :)

• Princeton (REA)
• Tulane (EA)
• UC Irvine
• UCSB
• UCLA
• Northwestern (ouch but makes sense)
• Johns Hopkins
• Tufsts
• NYU
• UVA

Still waiting on...

• UC Berkeley (no shot)
• Columbia
• Emory
• Cornell
• Duke
• UPenn (dream school highkey)

Sooooo I'm not really sure how I feel about this whole college admissions process but my biggest piece of advise is to figure out what you want earlier on so you can save money and time applying to 30+ schools. Please give me any advice, feedback, or tips you have for making a final decision, chance me for the schools I have left, and learn from my mistakes!!

I want to preface this with the fact that I did get into all my safeties, so it's not like I have nowhere to go.
So far, I've been waitlisted by every single one of my top choice schools so far: Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Rice, and NYU....... (technically, I was also rejected by Columbia ED)
Obviously, there will be more school decisions coming out in the next coming days, but this continuous stream of being waitlisted is really affecting me. I have a 4.55 GPA, top 6% of my class, 1550 SAT, a whole bunch of 4 and 5 AP scores, I've studied abroad, I speak four languages, I've done everything I could think of to try and boost my college application................
I've worked my whole life to try and get into at least one of those top-choice schools, and I feel so dejected. Being waitlisted like this feels like a slap in the face. It's like the schools are telling me that I was so close to being good enough... if I had done just one thing more, maybe I would've been accepted.
I feel like everything I've done in my life so far has amounted to nothing. I gave up so much for these stupid universities.

I want to preface this with the fact that I did get into all my safeties, so it's not like I have nowhere to go.
So far, I've been waitlisted by every single one of my top choice schools so far: Johns Hopkins, Notre Dame, Rice, and NYU....... (technically, I was also rejected by Columbia ED)
Obviously, there will be more school decisions coming out in the next coming days, but this continuous stream of being waitlisted is really affecting me. I have a 4.55 GPA, top 6% of my class, 1550 SAT, a whole bunch of 4 and 5 AP scores, I've studied abroad, I speak four languages, I've done everything I could think of to try and boost my college application................
I've worked my whole life to try and get into at least one of those top-choice schools, and I feel so dejected. Being waitlisted like this feels like a slap in the face. It's like the schools are telling me that I was so close to being good enough... if I had done just one thing more, maybe I would've been accepted.
I feel like everything I've done in my life so far has amounted to nothing. I gave up so much for these stupid universities.

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: South Asian
• Residence: NJ
• Type of School: Public High School
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): Finance/Economics
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.97/ 5.19
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 11 Honors, 9 APs
• Currently taking: AP Calc BC, AP Bio, AP German, AP Lit, AP Euro
• Ranking: 22/ about 800

Standardized Testing

• SAT I: Test Optional

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. FoundeCEO Reselling Business & Middle Man Service: $100k+ Revenue
2. FoundeCEO E-Commerce Business: $4k+ Profit
3. Co-FoundeCo-Owner Automated-Sneaker Software: $35k+ Revenue
4. Crypto/Digital Asset Trading: $35k+ Profit
5. FoundePresident of Finance Club
6. Competitive 5-month program at Investment Bank
7. Finance & Research Development Intern
8. Varsity Track- competing at nationals
9. Founde President of STEM Club
10. VP of DECA

Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. Bronze award for German National Exam
2. DECA State Finalist
3. Random Honor Societies

Letters of Recommendation

1. AP Lang Teacher- knows my siblings and me personally (8/10)
2. AP German Teacher- had for 3 years but don’t know how she writes LORs(8/10)

Interviews
*Penn (5/10)- Guy sounded like he didn’t want to be there 💀. He gave dry responses for the most part, but we were able to talk about food spots since we live relatively close.

• Cornell (8/10)- Really nice guy and talked for about an hour. Learned a lot about Cornell’s experience as a student and talked about food a lot on campus.

Rest-none for RD 🙃
Essays

• Personal Essay (10/10) First one submitted to Penn ED was like a 7/10. After submitting I realized that I could be more creative about my narrative and highlight certain parts more. Rewrote for RD and I genuinely enjoy re-reading it.
• Essays Overall (7/10) Put in a lot of effort into Cornell’s and Harvard’s. Definitely something I know I could’ve improved on for most schools.

Decisions
Acceptances:

• Rutgers Business Honors (RD)
• Stony Brook Honors (RD)
• UCI (RD)
• UCLA (RD)

Waitlisted:

• UCSD (RD)
• WashU (RD)
• UVA (RD)

Rejections:

• NYU Stern (RD)
• Penn (ED)

Awaiting:

• UMich, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth

Thoughts

• Honestly want to get this shit over with. I don’t really know what to expect for Ivy day, considering Test Optional (hoping Cornell pulls through with the Test Blind). Although I got accepted to UCLA, I’d much rather stay on the east coast and not have to worry about OOS tuition for UC’s. Worse case scenario I get rejected everywhere else, sure I’ll feel defeated, but honestly besides academics everything I did EC wise was because I genuinely wanted to do it (not because of college app- maybe except STEM club). I never really thought about applying to T20’s until halfway through my junior year when I saw some of my friends get into good schools and thought I had somewhat of a chance. So nonetheless I still feel somewhat content.

Will Update

I’m normalizing some fields for a normalized index I’m going to create, so I created a new field with long/numeric/6 decimal places and calculated it as (field I’m normalizing) / highest number in that field (which was 1010) to give me a score out of 1, but it only returns a handful of fields with anything in them and it’s only 0, or 1. Some of them should be stuff like 97/1010 so like 0.096 or so but they simply aren’t. I’m not sure if I need to use sig digits instead or what.
The end goal is to create several normalized fields and then an index to add the indexed fields to rank some polygons from highest scores to lowest. I’ve done this before with no problem, so I’m not sure what I’ve done to fuck it up.

i can see my friends’ score but i can’t see my own? how is it calculated bc it can’t just be like xp earned right?

Demographics: Female, White, North Carolina, competitive public school, and LGBTQ+
Intended study: Economics (major), Film studies and/or English (minor)
Academics:

• ACT: 34 (R:36, E:35, M:34, S:30)
• SAT: 1500 (W: 740, M: 760)
• Class rank: 2/550
• UW/W GPA: UW: 4.0/4.0 W: 4.7/5.0
• Coursework: Classes I will take by the end of senior year: 14 APs, 2 CC classes, 13 honors, 3 regular
  • AP Scores (did not take AP Stat exam): World History (5), Macro (5), US Gov (5), Seminar (3)
    • Exams to take Junior & Senior year: Chem, Calc BC (AB subscore), Human Geo, Lang, Research, APUSH, APES, Lit

Extracurriculars:
1) Bank of America Student Leaders Program, 8 week paid internship through Bank of America but you work with local nonprofits
2) Varsity Soccer, 2 year captain, MVP as a junior, 2x All-Conference, led team to playoffs for first time in 5 years
3) Club Soccer, Girls Academy league (highest level of play for girls youth soccer), travel out-of-state (CA, FL, NJ, GA, etc.) every weekend while in season, play with D1 recruits and youth national team players
4) Student Council, Student Body VP (12th), Class Treasurer (11th), Class Rep (9th-10th), leader of annual food drive and a birthday box drive (11th), prom committee member
5) Student Newspaper, (hopefully) Co-Editor-in-Chief (12th), Staff Writer (10th-11th)
6) Habitat for Humanity, volunteer building homes in my community, 65+ hours in the organization
7) Volunteer at a local art house theater, volunteer-run venue for indie film festivals, live music, and stand up comedy, usher and help choose films and acts to showcase, 50+ hours in the organization
8) Founder of county-wide bookclub, 25+ members, monthly meetings plus occasional community service
9) National Honor Society, NHS Vice President, 30+ hours of community service
10) Duke Summer Program in Econometrics (10th), 3 weeks, research project on determinants of crime
Awards: *weak need suggestions/help\*
1) AP Capstone Diploma (completed and passed a 5000 word research paper, 2000 word literature review, 1200 word literature review, 20 minute presentation and 10 minute presentation in AP Research and Seminar)
2) Junior Marshall (participated in graduation as a junior for being top 15 in class)
3) The Future of Finance is Female conference (female leaders in investment banking and consulting lead the conference, was invited and attended in 10th)
4) AP Scholar with Distinction
5) *need to find something asap*
Schools:

• UNC-CH (EA) (applying for morehead-cain scholarship and honors college)
• UVA (EA) (applying for jefferson scholarship)
• NC State (EA)
• UChicago (EA)
• Duke (RD)
• Dartmouth (RD)
• Brown (RD)
• Cornell (RD)

LMK what you think my chances are at these schools! Also, should I submit ACT or SAT (superscored) or both? And, what awards/competitions related to my major (econ) or minors (film/english) should I do?

So I need some help figuring out the calculations for: advantage on damage rolls, rerolling ones for ability scores, and rerolling ones for damage.
These are so I can find the median on these things, I have been stumped for a while and could really use some help.

When I applied my GPA was in the 3.9 range however this past semester I got only 4 A's with a B- in AP Calc and a C- in AP Lit with this current semester looking the same. How high are my chances of being rescinded?
I'm really really about the C-. Kinda terrifies me.

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Black asf
• Residence: MN
• Income Bracket: EFC: 5k for a family of 6
• Type of School: Your average public school
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): URM? Low Income??????

Intended Major(s): Geography, Environmental Studies. I just think they're cool
Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.51 UW 3.72W. I don't really got an excuse for this im just not a great student
• Rank (or percentile): N/A
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: i've taken 4 APs lmao. If we counting "accelerated" classes then that's an extra like 6 more i think idk.
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, Econ, Pre-Calc, APES, other classes that would dox my exact school so shhhhhh

Standardized Testing
List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: didnt take that garbage #midwest4life
• ACT: 26 (26E, 23M, 32R, 23S) ???? i cant remember for the life of me but i think those were the exact scores
• SAT II: refer to the first SAT
• AP/IB: all 3s for APUSH, AP Lang, and AP bio,
• Other: nah

Extracurriculars/Activities
List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. #1 UPWARD BOUND WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I could write a lot about this but oh my godd I love this shit, part of student leadership council, go to tutoring for like 2 hours a week and have to commit to the whole summer program. Worth it though. (9-present)
2. #2 Was Co-Captain of Schools archery team in 11th grade, Did it from 9-11th grade and it was cool, never won anything major so sorry y'all. Probably spent like 8 hours a week on this bru
3. #3 Research Organizer. Did some research for the University Of Minnesota, was very nice. Can't give away more cause you can dox me AGAIN. Spent like a couple hours a week on this though (12th)
4. #4 Part time job at a caribou. I mean it's just a part time job y'all, what do i gotta say. Was a cashier, handled payments, the whole 9 yards, spent like 15ish hours a week till i quit (11-12)
5. #5 Teacher Assistant. TA'd for the library and just checked in and out books. Had to handle events when they were happening in the library and managed the online system for books. So like 4ish hours a week here (started this year lol)
6. #6 Schools Tennis Team. Joined REALLY late last year but I'm doing it again this year! Never won a tournament or anything so yeah. Spent like 8 hours a week here (11-present)
7. #7 Food Shelf Stocker! Stocked food mostly, just keeping inventory checks and all that. But I did a lot of work up front handing stuff in. Really nice stuff. (11-present)
8. #8 School Event Organizer. Was with a team of 3 other seniors to set up and plan our schools African American culture night. This started kinda late though so I was only able to put it on a few of my applications sadly. (did it for like 3 months this year)

that's it.
Awards/Honors
List all awards and honors submitted on your application.
Awards? I Barely know her!
Letters of Recommendation
English teacher for 3 years: 10/10 oh my goddddd I love this guy and he can write so well. I wish he didn't leave the school senior year though :(((. Amazing letter though truly
APUSH Teacher: I needed another letter if i'm being honest and its nothing special. 7/10 though!
Upward Bound Mentor: 10/10. For a guy I didn't really start speaking to until last year he knows his shit fr. Felt like he knew me through all of high school it was so heartfelt. <3 thank you so much bro
Interviews
St. Olaf: 8/10. We had to do these for Upward Bound and it was nice! She had to leave really quick though but I felt like we connected
Carleton: 9/10: AWESOME INTERVIEWER!!! She was so nice and we shared so many interests. The only thing that's stopping me from giving this a 10 is I was so nervous the whole time and stuttered so much oh my godd
Macalester: 5/10. First interview btw. There was a time when he asked a question and i just didn't know how to respond and had a little breakdown in my head trying to come up with something. Could've gone better but like oh well man.
Essays
Personal Statement: I thought it was pretty nice. Talked about how Formula 1 quite literally changed my life and made me who I am now in 9th grade.
Supplemental. They happened. They felt mostly good though! I ended up reusing one of the Occidental prompts for Carleton cause I just didn't wanna bother.
Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)
Acceptances: all of these below were either EA or rolling btw

• University Of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
• UMD (University Of Minnesota Duluth lol)
• Cornell COLLEGE. NOT THE IVY LEAGUE ONE!!
• Gustavus Adolphus College
• Lawrence University
• Stony Brook University
• University Of St. Thomas
• Adelphi
• St. Olaf College
• Colorado Boulder
• Sewanee
• Lewis & Clark College

Waitlists:
Carleton. Honestly I am 100% sure that my interview is what saved me from an auto-rejection. Probably won't get off but frankly I'm thrilled I'm ever here.
NYU??? IDK what these guys were thinking. I applied for Gallatin cause I'm a sucker for them liberal arts if that makes any difference. Still kind of surprised I wasn't just rejected.
Rejections:

• Macalester. Not at all surprised though lmao
• University of Denver, there goes me thinking that yeah this is a good target school. Didn't even give me the option of transferring after a year lmao
• Case Western, i mean who wants to live in ohio for college anyway bruh
• Colorado College, not rich enough ig
• Occidental, (ngl this one kinda hurt cause i loved my essays for this so much)

Additional Information
After all this I can 100% say that I hated every second of this college application process but, what can you do. Will probably end up committing to St. Olaf cause they gave me almost a full ride for some reason plus I already know the college well. Also like this is actually like one of the best kept secrets for colleges wtf. Seriously! Their financial aid is top notch and it's in the most stereotypical college town ever. Sometimes I swear it's people thinking it's one of *those* Christian colleges cause of the name (it's barely even Christian anyway.)
Hope everyone here can get what they want though! You all deserve it so much.

So I've been noticing a lot of people asking about what the SHSAT retake is gonna be. Well to answer your questions, the 9th SHSAT is basically a more advanced version of the 8th SHSAT, topics mainly differing in the math section rather than the ELA. This test is mainly in November or December. Any freshman currently attending high school can take this test and if you are already in a SPH and you get a bad score, you will not get kicked out of your school. Also the point system and cut off scores for the retake SHSAT are much harsher than the 8th SHSAT.
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MATH SECTION
The math on the 9th SHSAT is mainly made of 8th grade common core math, algebra 1, some geometry, and the topics on the 8th grade SHSAT; such as percent's, statistics, pre algebra, fractions, and basic word problems.
The geo on the 9th SHSAT is mainly about Pythagoreans theorem, surface area/area/volume of 2d/3d shapes(such as spheres ,cone, cylinder, circle, cubes, etc.), properties of parallelograms and quadrilaterals, supplementary/complementary angles, transformations(translation, reflection, dilation, and rotation), midpoint/distance formula, and similar triangles, and coordinate geo. I probably missed some but those are basically the main geo topics.
For algebra 1 there are slopes, graphs, system of equations, finding x and y, factoring, finding the 0s of a graph, inequalities, absolute value, and number of solutions ,piece wise function, maybe sequences, and quadratics, . These are only some of the alg 1 topics that will come up, so you basically want to master all of alg 1 in order to get a really high score.
For 8th grade common core there is exponents, radicals (cube roots and square roots), scientific notation, scatter plots, transformations, repeating decimals, and volume. A lot of the SHSAT retake will be on these topics so you better study up.
A lot of the past SHSAT will also be on the retake, such as proportions, percent's, scatter plots, angle relationships, box plots, combinations and permutations, factorials, and proportional relationships.
Books that you will probably need for studying the math section is Andrew Kim, bobby tariq 8th and 9th SHSAT books(if you have good budget), alg 1 and geo regents book(probably found in your local library), and tutorverse.
HOWEVER, if you do not have the budget for all of these books, then I GREATLY suggest that you only buy Andrew Kim. Andrew Kim is a hard carry for the math section and basically gives you real life demonstration. The 9th and 8th grade samples at the end of the DOE handbook are also extremely similar to the math section. You should also do the practice tests too. To also practice and learn about the given math concepts, you should use Kahn Acedemy for alg 1 and 8th grade common core math.
Some tests I greatly recommend using to hone your skills are the alg 1 regents test, PSAT 8/9, doe handbook(mainly the 9th and 8th grade samples), and the 8th grade state test.
SHSAT Handbooks(MUST):https://admissionsquad.org/past-shsat-student-handbooks
55 Rules from Tariq:https://www.amazon.com/9th-GRADE-SHSAT-Practice-Tests/dp/1798409763
Bobby tariq ELA:https://www.amazon.com/SHSAT-ELA-Grade-Comprehension-Questions/dp/1090554826/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2NFL11RFEEYH4&keywords=grade+9+shsat&qid=1680041547&sprefix=grade+9+shsat%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-4
Andrew Kim(MUST GET):https://www.amazon.com/SHSAT-Grade-Math-Mathematics-Explanations/dp/1986850048
Tutorverse:https://www.amazon.com/New-York-City-SHSAT-Questions/dp/1732167761/ref=m_pd_aw_sbs_sccl_2/145-5264573-0889647?pd_rd_w=PrErk&content-id=amzn1.sym.b4ca4d1e-3722-4b55-b27a-c4d131b668b6&pf_rd_p=b4ca4d1e-3722-4b55-b27a-c4d131b668b6&pf_rd_r=8GVJDKQTQPCVAZ0AY93N&pd_rd_wg=BpGaK&pd_rd_r=da7b8346-6e66-424c-b398-c51333c713da&pd_rd_i=1732167761&psc=1
Algebra 1 regents:https://www.nysedregents.org/algebraone/
8th grade state test:https://www.nysedregents.org/ei/ei-math.html
The PSAT, alg 1 barrons, geo barrons books can all be found in your local library.
Kahn Acedemy(MUST DO)-
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/8th-engage-ny(This is for 8th grade common core math)<-- Must do
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/pre-algebra(pre algebra)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo(Basic Geo)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra(Alg 1)<--- Must do
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/geometry(Highschool Geomtery, skip proofs,trig, circles)
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-eighth-grade-math/cc-8th-geometry(8th grade geometery)<--- Must do
Sorry if I missed anything for the math but this is basically the math portion of the 9th SHSAT
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ELA SECTION
Now based on personal experience and many others, ELA is quite the struggle. Many people have ELA as their weak section and probably have a low score just because of that. So these are just some basic to do's when improving on the ELA section.
First things first, the retake SHSAT ELA is very similar to the 8th SHSAT ELA but the passage difficulty is only slightly higher for the retake. However, the questions for both of the tests are similar. The 9th SHSAT has only 2-3 more advanced leveled passages than the 8th. For reference, if there were to be 6 passages on the 8th SHSAT, 2-3 of those passages would be more advanced for the retake. The grammar section for the retake is the same the 8th.
For people who struggle with pacing on the literature, I suggest that you start to read more literature and consistently develop your reading speed. If that doesn't help, then you can just do consistent testing on the reading section in replace for that.
Some tips on the ELA section from a fellow friend named Trying(got a 648 on the SHSAT retake) are,
Ela TIPS: Rev/Edit make sure all information is listed and relationship is kept when revising sentencesUse questions in REV/EDIT that relate to what is being asked, such as question being asked in context of a sentence in a paragraph, use it as it relates to the entire paragraph; chose most relevant, over arching idea; whatever answers the question fully, 2 might be correct, which one is MORE CORRECT? for " in paragraphs # and #" questions, go directly to the paragraph and whatever is relevant in THOSE paragraphs Word choice also matters and is important to consider
CONSIDER the most important idea of whatever section the question is referring to, might even be the whole story.
Also skimming is a pretty good technique when on boring passages but I don't really recommend because it is a risky technique. Maybe you can practice skimming to get the hang of it. If skimming doesn't work for you then you fully/deeply read the passage and try to understand the passage as much as you can. For the questions on the SHSAT, you can list these questions and try to find a specific pattern to answering these questions. Another big tip is to read the answer choices before you read the passage so you know what you are looking for. But the most biggest tip of all is to master POE other wise known as process of elimination. Try to find the most smallest mistakes the derive the answer choice away from the text. Doing that can help you eliminate choices more quickly and effectively. I feel like bobby best explains this type of method in his video-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPgtXBsjIro
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk6Hat0smg
Now for practice material. You should use the doe handbooks ela section, ivyprep SHSAT book, ela regents, SAT ELA, and PSAT 8/9 ELA.
Doe Handbook:https://admissionsquad.org/past-shsat-student-handbooks
Ivyprep:https://www.amazon.com/IvyPrep-SHSAT-Specialized-Admissions-unbelievable/dp/1706415966
ELA regents Barron book and PSAT 8/9 will be found in your local library
SAT ELA:https://www.amazon.com/Official-SAT-Study-Guide-2020/dp/1457312190?crid=IZIJ50BIJP37&keywords=sat+prep+book+2023+college+board&qid=1669334304&sprefix=sat+prep+book+2023+,aps,87&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=ashton0c1-20&linkId=4483fba1a681ed5eb987ba77894de1e6&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
There are many SAT books but this is basically the best one
I'm pretty bad at ELA but I hope this helped
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TUTORS
So as many of you all know, there aren't many SHSAT 9 tutors out there. But my #1 recommendation, if you have the budget of course, if Bobby Tariq. Many people I know went to Bobby Tariq for the retake and have gotten extremely high scores and have been accepted to the infamous Stuyvesant High School. Unfortunately, I barely know any other tutors for the 9th SHSAT besides Bobby BUT if you do decide to go, then here is a heads up on what will happen. Bobby Tariq is not one person, they are two separate people. Bobby does SAT and Tariq does SHSAT. Also for people who go to bobby tariq, you guys will have to be prepared for the rigorous activities and pressure he will put you through. For people can't afford such a expensive tutor, you can self study instead. A lot of people have self studied, including me, and got into their dream schools through the retake. If you take the retake seriously and study, then your effort won't go in vain. Just so you know, people at Bobby's overprep themselves and do SAT and ACT for their practice. You can imitate these tactics and implement these materials when you are self studying. If you can't afford bobby's, then you can just do SAT,ACT, and buy his books to gain some of the experience.
Bobby Tariq:https://www.bobbytariq.com/9th-grade-shsat-prep
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Time management and prepping schedule
I started studying for the retake 2 months before the test. I highly don't recommend this and I believe that you should start studying right now. Since all of you have school right now, you should at least spend 1-2 hours on studying for the retake, and as we get closer to the summer, you should start increasing the amount of time you do. It is suggested that you start spending less of your free time on things such as video games and social media, instead invest that time into studying.
Now for time management. A lot of kids have probably failed the SHSAT due to time management issues, causing them to guess on questions they haven't answered. The key to fixing this is to just do more testing.
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MOTIVATION
Now I know a lot of you might be retaking because you didn't get into a school or didn't your first pick, but I assure you that if you study and work hard, you will most definitely get into your dream school. The 9th SHSAT has a a harsher point system and the competition is huge, but if you have motivation to fix your mistakes, then you will most definitely get in. People who had gotten a 505 on the 8th got a 648 on the 9th and my friend who got a 524 on the 8th and didn't get in, got a 632 on the 9th.
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A bit about myself and my experience with the retake
So for the 8th SHSAT, I got into Brooklyn Tech with a pretty decent score. At first I wanted to take the retake for fun but then I realized that my main goal for this year was to get into Stuyvesant High School due to pressure from family and friends. So I started to seriously prep and tried to get as many contacts I could get with the people who took it before. Luckily, I met some amazing people over discord and they helped me form my study guide for the retake. During test day, I took a cold shower in the morning to be energized and too be focused. I also brang a watch and sharpened pencils. Fortunately, my friend was there and we joked around which lead to my overall experience to be less stressing. When I was taking the test, I felt ready and I finished the math section in about 28 minutes. The real deal was the ELA. The first couple of passages were pretty good but when I got to the poem, I started to struggle. I was pretty scared but when the test ended, my friend also said that the poem was pretty hard so that lead me to believe that the passage was most likely field. During result day, I was too scared to check my result so I fell asleep first thing after school, but I was suddenly awoken by my mom shouting in joy saying that I got into stuy with a 640.
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I hoped this helped all of you who are retaking and I wish you luck on your journey!

The story is from an unsuccessful applicant this year. I decided to summarize some mistakes and accentuate what could've been improved.
Some backgrounds:

• Male, applying theoretical physics major.
• From a top 5 public high school in our state
• 1540 SAT (Taken once)
• 4.55 weighted GPA
• 14 AP courses upon graduation(Most STEM courses available, lit, lang, APUSH and stuff) eight 5s so far.
• Several mediocre extracurriculars:(Club founder, Varsity sports captain, tutoring, etc)
  Before this application process, I consider my background quite robust, and in fact, I still do at this point. Yet I got waitlisted almost everywhere, all T30 schools and even those I used to consider safety.
  Looking back at the past application process, there are a few mistakes I made worth noticing for me to learn from.
  
• If you are not a genius, play by the rule.
  Compared to many outstanding applicants I've witnessed in A2C in the past few days, I've spent little to no effort building my personal figure that is to be exhibited to admission officers. I've committed overly less effort to classwork and excessive time learning stuff that is not the most cost-effective at this point in my life. While others were polishing their resume, I was playing Kaggle competition, battling with stationary Schrödinger equation in potential wells, expecting admission officers to be impressed by such advanced, college upper-class level knowledge. While learning this content out of curiosity has no practical difference from playing video games or watching TV shows, neither demonstrates my level of conformity in the pre-existing system, which is a useful metric in estimating one's future success, as well as the financial reward they can possibly receive from you. If you are a person like me who's slightly smarter than others while not genius enough to create your own way of success, play by the rule and make yourself a more ostentatious candidate. (A sport that not a lot of people play, stylish painting or dancing that could tell your culture, something unique, admission officers love these, even though they usually don't take as much effort as those competitive activities. Many people would argue that "be your self "is the best option, but as far as people I've seen, those whom deliberately package themself almost always end up with a better result as for college application than those who don't.)
  
• Cherish my family
  If you decide to go to a college far from your home, you might wanna start calculating the time in the rest of your life that can be spent with your family. The number will be lower than your expectation; It is very difficult to find someone that trusts you unconditionally. (Start cooking for them might be a good choice, it will also save money when you live in the dorm!)
  
• Don't think maliciously about people who were more successful than me in the application process.
  I was the type of student that others would be appalled if they learned that I didn't get accepted into the ivies. Yet I did not. It is a lie to say that I didn't feel a sense of imbalance after hearing that student that always gets Bs, even Cs in AP physics, receiving better offers than I do, while my average score remains at an A+. But if I happened to be in that situation again, I would ask myself, am I really sure that these people have nothing better than me? At least I didn't have a sincere heart when I wrote my application essay. I thought I was smarter, well-informed, articulate, and even more muscular. The ego from my essays can be smelled in New Zealand. I hope this experience will help me to humble myself in the future. At this stage of life, the difference between people has not fully developed into that insurmountable moat; I shall fill those inadequacies and hone these fortes.
  
• I would stick with the college I choose, even though it's not my first choice.
  

There are always resources at a university; going to a lower-ranked university might give me a better opportunity to receive educational resources since there's less competition and a lot of cases, a higher GPA as well. Due to the reason that competitions in academia are more fierce than competition between college applicants, teachers in a lower-ranked university are always gonna capable of teaching Undergraduate level courses; if not, there are always numerous textbooks and video lectures online for reference.

• Making mistakes in this early stage of life is lucky.

I do not want to self-deceive, and college is indeed a crucial part of my life that will probably be remembered forever, yet I do feel like making mistakes at this early stage of life allows greater freedom for reflection and improvements - before I got too old to stop admitting my mistakes. I can't imagine if my ego is yet boosted again by getting into a good college of my choice and what it will end up being. Some are naturally destined to fail many times and be destroyed many times, but people are not born to be defeated. If you are a person in my situation and still want to be a part of your dream college, transferring, obtaining a master, a Ph.D., or even teaching at that school are options.

At the end of the day, getting into a good college is not the only way to success; in fact, the middle class and mediocre students seem to underscore this ordinary investment unduly. As far as I see, of my friends that got into schools like Stanford, Caltech, or MIT, none seems to take this business too seriously. This passage is mainly for my own reflection and future improvement. If someone reads to this point, how about let's solve the Jane Stree puzzle of this month? I've solved it once, and It brings me as much fulfillment as being accepted into any school on this planet.