/sci/ - Science & Math

You should go to school so you develop the social skills you will need to not be a lonely angry bitter faggot in life. Just trying to help op

>>1998128
Haha, dont worry, I have friend outside of school and see them quite regularly. :)

>my parents are both dumbasses, they no nothing
>What subjects should I try to learn
English followed by genetics.

Good choice. I was miserable in HS for all the normal reasons, plus my friends all went to other schools. No redeeming features. You're lucky your parents are letting you teach yourself.

As for advice, keep a regular schedule whatever you do. Teaching yourself takes considerable motivation. If I were you I'd spend most of my day in a public library, so there are books to look things up if need be but not sites like this to distract you. If you must use a computer, create a different user for doing work, without admin access. Use Leechblock or some equivalent to keep yourself on relevant sites.

When it comes to how much you should do, you can spend a little less time than you would in school, but try to keep up with as much, if not more, work. Since you're actually spending time working, you're gonna be a lot more efficient.

Find some interesting projects too. If you want to get into an Ivy or MIT you have to have something to impress them in addition to brilliant SAT scores. Some schools require teacher recommendations as part of the application, but they're generally pretty lenient about it so you can have the supervisor of your robotics club write it or something.

Go to school. You're 15, you don't have the discipline yet for self study.

>>1998178
Oh, subjects I can't really help with since I didn't go to school in the US. Following the order things are presented on Khan Academy seems to be a good idea, and one of the major benefits of teaching yourself is you can go at your own pace. This doesn't mean slacking, it means when you have difficulty with a subject you can spend a little more time on it, and when it's obvious to you you can spend less.

>>1998178
Thank you for the advice :)

>>1998188
Possibly, I actually enjoy quite a few of the subjects and spend my free time doing them however, so its mostly doing work, not studying.

>>1998206
The key thing to prove everyone wrong when they don't reckon you can do it is to make a fucking timetable and stick to it.

>>1998195
I don't go to school in the US either, what country did you live in?

>>1998208
Okay, setting a time limit tends to help me concentrate, thanks :)

>>1998209
New Zealand. Considering the time here it's not too unlikely you're from here, given that you're not American. If you are here, see what you can do to sit CIE exams instead of NCEA.

Hello? Not bumping because it's not exactly a top quality thread, but where is OP from?

>>1998250
Canada

Biology can be learned on the fly if a course in college requires it. English is useless. If you can write it (seems like you are semi-decent) you shouldn't have any concern. I would stress mathematics, physics and chemistry. You can probably skip a few years of high school chemistry (it's mostly bullshit).

Since you're in grade 9, I think understanding how quadratics work and graphing functions is a good goal, up until grade 10. By grade 10, you should know all your trig, cos laws, vectors, and begin with more advanced functions and maybe even start understanding calculus.

>>1998290
Thanks, should I start learning quadratics work and graphing functions now or continue with the program Im in now (algebra)? Or combine them?

>>1998364
I thought you covered that in Algebra? Or was my curriculum different?

>>1998367
Nevermind, I looked ahead in my book and I will cover that, thanks :)

You want to get into MIT? Go for it, bro. Succeed where I failed (a fucking stupid court deposition for a car accident I got into in grade 10 fell on the same date as my interview for MIT, and the admissions officer wouldn't reschedule).

What you have to keep in mind, however, is that the application process is nothing more than a big fucking cheese fest. What I mean by that is... well, just go by the old adage: "It's not what you know, it's who you know." And in this case, "who you know" extends to what economic status you were born into, what race you just happen to belong to, and how well you know the admissions officer. I'm not even kidding on the last one, one of the kids from my high school who got into MIT knew the admissions officer for our region since he was in grade school, and all he had to show on his transcript was straight A's -- no science or math-related awards, no research experience, no competition placements, nothing. Oh, and a subpar 34 on the ACT and a class rank of 29 out of 450. But I digress, I am obviously quite bitter that he got in. That was not my point. I apologize.

But yeah... what you really want to do to get into a "good" college is get connections... and in that regard, I'm just more than a little skeptical about your prospects, seeing as you're "merely" homeschooled. To remedy this, go out and join clubs, try getting into research competitions like Siemens or HSHSP or whatever you can get your hands on. Show MIT you're interested in learning for learning's sake (which, frankly, you already are).

>>1998416
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As an addendum to what I have just said, you must also keep in mind that the best school is not always necessarily the most prestigious school. Another friend of mine got into MIT very easily due to sheer academic prowess combined with the fortune of being born hispanic, but he instead chose a lesser known college called Purdue due to (what he viewed as) its having a nearly equal caliber of engineering education at a much cheaper cost. Keep an open mind when you start applying for college in three or so years.

My point is, don't fall into the trap of thinking that making a name of yourself means having to have a higher institution spell it out for you.

>>1998422
Thank you for this advice, I really appreciate it.
I know that talk is cheep but I will think about finding the best schools, not the ones that are hardest to get into, thank you.

Your English could use a bit of polish.

Ace the standardized tests, do some research, extracurriculars

"I have never even posted in a troll thread and my comments have been more or less helpful, I would appreciate not getting b&) "

if mods will ban you for simply stating you are underage (even though this could be a lie, you cant prove it either way) then the sensible thing to do would be to just NOT mention your age, just in case.