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fruiterian · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject:

i think it's some magnet school he's applying to, at least according to a quick googling of "imsa."

also according to the website there's no minimum sat score required to get into the frickin' school.

i went to a science magnet myself, didn't have to take the sats for it, but there was an admissions test. they don't release the numbers or give any details whatsoever on how they score it, which is pretty smart if you ask me. and it was specifically designed so that you couldn't really prep for it, they only release 4 sample questions, et cetera. i think if they did it any other way the school would be a lot different, because right off the bat you'd have competition over who got the highest scores. prep would probably fuck people up too because the area it serves has a lot of high income parts and a lot of low income parts, so it's pretty diverse economically. though they take x people from each town...

meh.
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Belgianbronco · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

Hello, I am Dr. Eric McLaren, CEO and founder of the IMSA society. YOUR MOTHER MAY HAVE BEEN BLESSED MORE TIMES BY THE SACRED WHITE RIVER OF MY PELVIC PALADIN, BUT THAT IS NO REASON TO GIVE ME THE GREEN EYE OF JEALOUSY, MY COCK-LOVING CAVALIER. BETWEEN US, TONIGHT WILL BE RELIGIOUS RAPTURE, FOR YOUR ANAL CLEFT SHALL BE MY GREAT SEA, AND I SHALL BE ITS MOSES, CLEAVING ITS MIGHTY CHOCOLATE OCEAN TO MAKE WAY FOR THE SAFE PASSAGE OF MY TESTICULAR TRIBE, HAVING BEEN GRANTED MEPHITIC FREEDOM FROM THE TYRANNY OF ENSLAVEMENT BEHIND A LOCKED PROSTATE. TO DO THIS, I WILL READY MY LONGIUS TO PIERCE YOUR BACKSIDE’S SACRED DOMAIN — YOU WILL SCREAM FIRST IN PAIN, THEN IN PASSION AS ITS STEEL-LADEN GIRTH STRETCHES AND RIPS THE FABRIC OF YOUR MORTAL INNARDS, DISIMBUING YOU OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS, LEADING YOU TO A HEAVEN, THEN REVIVING YOUR FEELING OF PHYSICAL REALITY LIKE A ONCE-CRUCIFIED JESUS RETURNING TO EARTH.
I guarantee it.

~IMSA by the Numbers~
IMSA is a magnet school with an average SAT score of 670(in mathematics). 750 people apply, 250 get in. It serves 10th-12th graders, but allows 8th graders to apply for early admission. 25 8th graders made it in last year. We can assume that 12 of them are non-social bleeps who had spent the last 13 years of their lifetime studying for IMSA, 5 are wannabe preps who have taken calculus in 7th grade, and 2 are black people so that the school can have an approach as "Multi-cultural".
5 are white people who think they are smarter than Asians(my only chance). Aside from them, The rest of the populace is Asian.(preferably japanese).
btw, I nevar said any of this.
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possums · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:57 am Post subject:

I'm not going to read this thread, but I'm guessing that I'm like most other people in doing mediocre in math and scoring in the 90th percentile for writing and reading.
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THE Moosed · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:38 am Post subject:

I do mediocre in the reading, but score in the 99th percentile in math. I always have. I'm mildly dyslexic and therefore a slow reader. So yeah.

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I tend to score 99th percentile in everything. That could change soon though.

fruiterian · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:37 am Post subject:

fuck that shit. you are what you are. some people are stupid, some are geniuses. let's focus on bettering ourselves without looking at numbers, aye? study what you feel passionate about and fuck the end result. it's cliche but it's the fucking intellectual journey that matters, not the a, b, or f a the end of the trail.

i hate doing math personally, but the bit i actually have motivated myself to do has been pretty easy for me. lit, on the other hand, i nearly failed once or twice. i used to be a terrible essayist, and while my writing isn't joyful to read at the moment, it doesn't totally suck and it isn't totally incomprehensible.

though i think my high school teachers were harder on my writing than they are here. but i tend to be self-critical regardless. i've had speech problems in the past, so the problem for me isn't reading, it's properly articulating my thoughts.
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Its_The_Sneak!!! · Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:42 am Post subject:

hey, I'm really thankful for the SATs. They got me auto-accepted into my college. I couldn't do that with grades alone, 'cause I'm a real scatterbrain and rarely did homework.

If you don't got the letters, go for the numbers, know what I'm sayin'?
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Carlo Von Sexron · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:02 am Post subject:

I don't know how it's relevant, but Monica Lewinsky once said "mmmf mmmgm hggg mmmfff!"
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Pwn.

Seriously though, all this awful talk about terrible luck getting media jobs makes me worried about my Cinematography BFA track.

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fruiterian · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject:

part of my point is to ignore how others are doing and focus on what you're doing. there are retards in the world. i know people and i think "what they hell are they doing here." but at the same time numbers are just numbers, and you're only ever going to get a limited view of a person from them. in junior year my locker was right next to a kid who got a perfect score on the new SAT and is now going to MIT as a major chemistry nerd. another one of my best friends flunked out of his college because of numerous severe personal issues. i don't compare myself to either one. i have different talents, interests, motivations. chris, the mit kid, he can't be characterized by numbers. he does well in school but his knowledge does extend beyond that--he has an impressive grasp of political issues, literature, random trivia, et cetera. and justin, the other guy, is probably the most amazing writer i've ever had the grace to meet. it's kind of an older seeming style, but his ideas in his writing is awesome and his language is stunning. neither of them are accurately characterized by their grades.

and i know i'm more than a silly score. i know that i'm not the smartest person in the world. i don't know who the smartest person in the world is. i know that there are people that can kick my ass in physics or calculus, but i can come right back and kick their ass in biology or religion. tests don't always measure how you understand things either, the iq tests do to some extent, but even they have a limited range on what kind of intelligence they're looking for. i've had iq tests twice in my life administered professionally and they varied about 20-30 points. mind you, there was a 8 year difference between them, but i don't think of the numbers. i'd rather think of what i've personally accomplished. just because you get a good grade doesn't mean you've learnt something. just because you fail a class doesn't mean that you're retarded. just because you do well on a test doesn't mean you're fucking intelligent or a genius or whatnot.

my magnet high school experience and my hippie college experience have led me to become quite disillusioned with the state of education today.
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