Jumbled Thoughts/Stanford

[Roses_Are_Yellow]

I got my scores back from this test I had to take a few weeks ago (it was a country wide test).... I thought it would be horrible...but I did really well. Like I got in the top 82 percentile for math out of the kids my age who tested in the U.S., and 93 percentile for reading. The rest are in between those two. On the other hand, I'm half way through the semester (trimester?) and my grades aren't bad... But my math is like a big fat blthhhhhhhhhhh... (C). My parents were telling me that with my test scores, I could get into Stanford or something..if I kept my grades up, along with extra cullericulars..etc.

The points of this long somewhat rant is that, I never really thought I had a chance of getting into any of those top schools like Stanford, or Yale. I mean sure, I dreamt about them when I was younger. But somewhere in the last few years I sort of just thought I'd end up at a local college or something. I guess thinking that, I just didn't care about my grades. I mean, I've always had a "Anything less then a B just sucks badly." attitude, but I guess I started not trying in the last year. Learning that I had a small chance at a college like that (you know, as long as I actually tried) gave me motivation to get my act together, and try for straight A's. College is a few years away, but it never hurts to start early..

Just had to sort through my thoughts so that maybe I can go to sleep...