... slavery itself? First of all every child is legally "forced" to attend 12 years of school. Students are supposed to do homework, study hard especially for the SAT's and PSAT's, and to be a good student. Legally we don't have to do it, but if we don't we have to handle the consequences in getting bad grades and not the ... forced to follow our " instructions of life" . Finally at the age of 21 we"re "free". We are letting the "cruel" years of "slavery" behind us to start a new life on our own. For the first time it's up to us to do what ever we want resulting of that we should have the po...

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My High School Experience High school, what a long strange trip it's been. Grades, boys, stress, homework, friends, fashion, English papers, PSAT's, math formulas, dissections, the elements of high school that can make a girl go completely insane! Sometimes, I just feel like life's a roller coaster and I am not strapped in, a little extreme to ... the ability at such a young point in my life to realize the importance of my actions. The experiences I have in high school, will stay with me forever and hopefully my new attitude will enable me to responsibly and maturely pursue my own interests,...

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... . My English wasn't so great, or so I thought. I entered Sunset Elementary and passed the ESOL test without one mistake, that then gave me the confidence to open up and make new friends. Soon enough I was eating lunch with kids and raising my hand to answer questions. Being accepted was a bit easier than I thought. Kids are kids and they don't see your ... and High School. It wasn't until I started taking pre-IB classes and AP courses that I realized I wasn't as ahead as everyone else with my English. It wasn't until I got my PSAT and SAT scores back that I felt for the first time I wasn...

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... this story for example: "Jared is a white boy who will graduate from a prestigious midwestern academy with a 3.9 grade point average. He took all the AP classes that the school offered, had a PSAT score of 1480, a SAT score of 1360 and an ACT score of thirty-one. He was in the top five to ten percent of college applicant's nation wide. On top ... you can't change. Diversity in the schools is needed but affirmative action isn't the way to do it. College students oppose affirmative action, but believe that there needs to be a new device to receive diversity. Therefore I have come up with ...

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