A Few College Questions?

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I'm a freshman in high school and all I've been thinking about lately is college. I've always dreamed of going to college and still do. However in the past (middle school) my grades weren't very high seeing as I really did not care about anything that went on in middle school. I still managed to get by with an A or two and a few B's and maybe a C here and there. Now that I'm in high school I've been taking things much more seriously. It's the end of the first quarter and I've ended it with straight A's (however most of them are 90's and two are 93. So I have an A in 5 standard classes. Those classes being geography, biology, algebra, French, and English. (I should also add that I attend a private school) I know this is incredibly far fetched, but my dream college has always been Stanford. Could someone explain to me a bit how getting into college works or maybe now getting into Stanford works? I want to go to a good school for Software Engineering/Computer science and I rather be in California if possible. Lately I've been feeling down though because I read that Stanford has the lowest acceptance rate of all colleges in the U.S. with what I have now, do I even have a chance? I should also add that I hate sports therefore I have no participation within the sports community at my school. However I do work the scoreboard/broadcast at the football games, I work the audio/lights/video in the theatre, as well as participate in school filming sessions for things such as website ads (for the school) or just class projects. (The class is called production which encompasses everything involving behind the scenes theatre and film) unfortunately my school has literally nothing to offer in the computer field other than a typing class which I'm already great at anyway. (Not like it matters though) that's pretty much all I can think of off the top of my head. I'd love some good answers.

Please excuse typos, I typed this on my phone.

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You must become tester, it is basically softwere engineering but better. vector... dplay

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If you are not pretty darned good at learning things you have not been taught, college will have nothing to offer you except rejection and insults. The school is not supported by students, and everybody knows it. Your teachers will tell you not to bother them because they didn't get their jobs by being good teachers. The staff will resent you just because you are young and happy. And you will be in debt for the rest of your life to pay for being treated that way.

Get "Dress For Success" by John Molloy and consider his advice for students:
- Vocal skill will affect your earning power more than any other detail.
- Acting skill will get you a job offer even when you are not qualified for the job.
- The most important benefit you get from school is your address book.
- The difference between a successful person and a very successful person is that the latter knows hundreds more people, and knows them quite well.
- No school will teach you any of the above. They don't even teach how to do well in their school.

Get a simple job and a cheap pad within walking distance. That is so you don't have to waste your money on transportation. Save half of everything you earn. Yes, half. To start, keep your savings in gold or silver coins which you do not store in anybody else's vault. Spend your evenings studying investment books at the public library. When you are smart enough then you can make other investments. If you earn ten bux an hour and save half, in only ten years you will have A HUNDRED THOUSAND BUX not counting interest or capital gains or profits: only principle. There is no other plan that will give you a net worth above zero in only ten years. And there is no school that will teach you any such thing.

Does this plan work? Andrew Carnegie worked five years, saved his wages, and then put it all into a steel mill. You might have heard the name. His hobby was building concert halls and libraries.

A Few College Questions?

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