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How were your writing skills in 9th/10th grade?
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:31 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894591) |
Date: July 8th, 2014 11:34 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894610) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:34 PM Author: Multi-colored Rigpig Famous Landscape Painting impeccable, to the degree that my teacher falsely accused me of plagiarism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894612) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:35 PM Author: flesh titillating karate SAME--also was accused of having hired a tutor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894614) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:36 PM Author: Multi-colored Rigpig Famous Landscape Painting pretty awkward huh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894626) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 3:01 AM Author: Ocher chest-beating stage round eye Yes very much so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895813) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:36 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund oh shit me too! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894621) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:16 AM Author: Bat Shit Crazy School Cafeteria me too
I wrote a story about summer camp that was so good my teacher didn't believe I wrote it |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:35 PM Author: milky hot foreskin not as good as I thought they were (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894615) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:45 PM Author: Plum Institution cr. I cringe when I read that stuff now. So flowery and roundabout. Forcing vocab words, etc. Managed to get an 800, but still. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894707) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:46 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894713) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:23 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy spectacular indian lodge Once used the word "stygian" in an essay. I think that was in 8th grade though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894974) |
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Date: August 19th, 2014 3:52 AM Author: glittery lay literally LOL'd at this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#26159300) |
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Date: August 19th, 2014 7:16 AM Author: Startling Know-it-all Garrison Messiness "His eye was swollen; it looked quite stygian." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#26159733) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:35 PM Author: Sexy Persian SHIT PURE SHIT same as they are now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894620) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:37 PM Author: Comical frozen university associate Pretty crap. In 11th grade I suddenly became arguably the best writer in the school and I've been excellent ever since. I still don't know how that happened. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894636) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:38 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund AP classes? Did you read during the summer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894643) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:47 PM Author: Comical frozen university associate My school had what they called pre-AP classes through sophomore year, and I was pretty good at multiple choice English tests then, but I don't remember being good at essays. I lol'd hard when I got a 100 on our final and the #1 class rank kid got an 88 (LOL JUST LOL bc I only graduated magna, high school was a rough time for me).
Junior year English was AP. The summer reading was just The Great Gatsby. I loved the book, listened to the audiobook about 4 times before school started. I was getting 8s and 9s (on the AP essay scale) on our first few essays in the class, so it wasn't like the class was really making me a better writer, although I did get even better as the year went on. Got a 5 on the AP exam, 800 SAT writing. Easily one of my favorite classes in hs, behind only AP macro and government.
EDIT: I meant to say that the initial increase in skill wasn't because of the class, and I don't know where it came from exactly. I guess I'm not a good writer. |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:49 PM Author: bonkers location great thing about ep english in 11th grade is that i don't even recall spending too much time prepping for the exam. by the time the test came we were mostly just able to slide and let do.
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:53 PM Author: Comical frozen university associate My teacher took this incredibly chill approach for the exam. It was mentioned of course, but she never stressed us about it, she just focused on guiding us through the literature and everything felt so natural. I loved her, she wrote my recommendation for Georgetown. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894759) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:04 AM Author: Cowardly Pit Hominid wow so she ruined your life huh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896118) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 5:34 AM Author: Swollen fighting kitchen so you graduated summa in college with ease? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896025) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:41 PM Author: bonkers location same. my 9th/10th grade english teachers sucked.
11th grade AP english was the first time i actually spent writing a lot of analytical prose every week instead of doing BS busy work jounral entries/talking about my feelings/etc. |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:44 PM Author: onyx exciting trust fund how did they develop your analytical prose? give e.g., of some of your homework drills (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894690) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:47 PM Author: bonkers location just shitloads of writing on how the author uses certain rhetorical devices in different passages in a novel, analyzing and deconstructing arguments, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894714) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:48 PM Author: Comical frozen university associate This. Practicing the 3 different essays required on the AP English Language and Composition exam is cr. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894728) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:52 PM Author: bonkers location my 10th grade honors english teacher had us do all these gay projects where we had to create posters and talk about our feelings.
she once gave us a massive test on a tale of 2 cities filled with vague questions about specific characters and events (it was too long a novel with too many characters for that sort of test). nearly everyone failed and we all had to get our tests signed by our parents. i don't think we ever even wrote papers on the book.
lol HS was so stupid. i'm going to homeschool my kids. |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:56 PM Author: Comical frozen university associate I pretty much never read the assigned reading until junior year. So easy to get by without it. Tbh any non-AP or IB class is a fucking joke unless you're at a really good school, and being an advanced class is necessary but certainly not sufficient. My kids are going to Exeter or Sidwell or something like that, fuck my prole education. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894775) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:51 PM Author: clear self-absorbed kitty cat chapel Erudite, irreverent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894745) |
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Date: July 8th, 2014 11:52 PM Author: Brilliant tantric site filthpig i'm sure they were shit. don't remember that far back. I can't really even remember college...and I'm sure my writing wasn't great back then either (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894751) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:00 AM Author: racy mustard brunch mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894792) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:04 AM Author: Plum Institution cr. I interview these kids for my UG some years. 1500+ SATs and some can barely speak, and their writing is almost universally atrocious. My kids will not be going to an AZN gunner high school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894814) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:05 AM Author: Comical frozen university associate HYP? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894820) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:07 AM Author: Plum Institution No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894832) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:12 AM Author: racy mustard brunch mexican (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894870) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:14 AM Author: crystalline filthy elastic band boistinker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894887) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:30 AM Author: Comical frozen university associate There are like a handful of public schools that are remotely cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895037) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 12:14 AM Author: Cracking abode pistol Churned out pure SCHOLARSHIP pretty much every day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25894888) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 2:54 AM Author: Slimy church nonexistent, prob still are (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895794) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 2:56 AM Author: Sable home puppy is it possible to read anything you wrote in 9th/10th grade and not cringe? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895800) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 2:56 AM Author: Slimy church maybe if you are a pumo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895802) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 3:02 AM Author: Ocher chest-beating stage round eye (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25895815) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 6:32 AM Author: Copper autistic circlehead Almost certainly better than the average college grad, but that doesn't mean much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896065) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:35 AM Author: Sickened diverse box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896168) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:02 AM Author: peach disgusting locus Better than when I graduated UG. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896113) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:03 AM Author: Talented bronze multi-billionaire Wonderful ideas, horrible execution. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896116) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:31 AM Author: disrespectful ivory giraffe field wordy and Julia-esque > top of the class (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896161) |
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Date: July 9th, 2014 8:36 AM Author: Bull headed house sound barrier I've looked at some of my old papers, and for some reason I liked to use quotation marks on almost every other word. I "wrote" like "this" for several grades, apparently. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#25896175) |
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Date: August 19th, 2014 7:54 AM Author: Rough-skinned Mind-boggling Business Firm and yet you're shocked that you're a pink collar dead end slave at a grocery store (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#26159790) |
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Date: August 19th, 2014 8:22 AM Author: adulterous partner station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2613680&forum_id=2#26159882) |