Harvard, Ivy League

This blog will be about all the details about Harvard! I personally don't like Harvard because they are racist to the Asian race, and well, I'm Chinese so.

But I am still researching Harvard because it is the top university in the world as of 2019-2020. Harvard is ranked the number one university on this website https://cwur.org/2018-19.php. I feel this is a reliable source because instead of ending in .com as in community, it ends in .org meaning this website is from an organization.

On this website, Harvard is ranked the top university as of 2019-2020. Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard contains around 6,700 undergraduate students and about 13,100 postgraduate students.

It is exceptionally hard to get into Harvard. To get into Harvard, you would have to have a 4.04 GPA. It would also be easier to get in through legacy, meaning if your parents and grandparents, etc. went to Harvard. This is similar to many other universities; however, Harvard is one of the Universities that consider legacy. 

Harvard was founded in 1636, it's tuition is $48,949 as of (2017-2018). Its average financial aid award is $50,562. Its acceptance rate is %5.2 (class of 2021). The average SAT score was 2235 (class of 2020), similar to 1530 on the new SAT.

Harvard also offers many sports, but in both men and women, they are known mostly for their soccer. I have never heard of their soccer teams, but I may be biased!

Just through this, you can see that it is quite challenging to get into Harvard, but personally, I don't want to go to Harvard because they probably wouldn't accept me but also because they are incredibly racist.

Template for University blogs

This blog will be about the template I will be using for my blogs on my 15 universities list!

First Paragraph 

I will introduce where the university is and talk about the average cost before and after, the graduation and the acceptance rate 

Second Paragraph 

I will talk about what the University is known for 

Third Paragraph 

I will talk about the GPA you would need, to get in and the SAT ACT score you would need to be considered, and the rank of the school 

Fourth Paragraph 

This paragraph will be about some details about the university, for example, things they exclusively offer and things only that university offers. 

Fifth Paragraph 

This isn't really a paragraph, it will just be a bunch of links to my previous blogs talking about the universities, they will also be in a listed order. 

Although by the look of the outline it doesn't look like much, however when the actual blog is written it will look a lot longer and better in the blog I will also provide a picture of the campus. 

15 universities I want to research (list)

1. Harvard, Ivy League
2. Princeton, Ivy League
3. Yale, Ivy League
4. Columbia, Ivy League
5. Brown, Ivy League
6. Cornell, Ivy League
7. Dartmouth, Ivy League
8. University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Ivy League
9. Brigham Young University (BYU)
10. Stanford
11. Berkley
12. University of Southern California (USC)
13. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
14. University of California Los Angelas (UCLA)
15. Georgetown

New category called University Research

First conduct of business! Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone is having a great time with families and being thankful for everything around you!

This new category will be on University information. I will be listing many different Universities around the world and information about them. For example, where it's located, what major is its best, how many people go to that university, how big the school is? Basically, information about that university!

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Thanks for reading my Blog!

My Progress with the SAT!

In my last blog, I talked about my more elaborate plan for the SAT!

Here is the link! https://addylinsworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/my-more-elaborate-plan-for-sat.html

Anyways, this blog will be about the progress I have made so far on the SAT. So far, what I have done is I have read two chapters of "The Princeton Review, Cracking the SAT 2020 Edition". Every time at the end of the chapter, a summary is given on the topics from the lesson. 

One thing that I am doing to help me remember all this stuff is making one notecard for every chapter I have read.

I feel that this book gives many excellent strategies to help you crack the SAT. You can check out the book or buy the book to see!

Thanks for reading my blog! Sorry, it's a little short this post was just for me to report back on what I have gotten done so far!

My more elaborate plan for the SAT

This blog will be a more elaborate plan for the SAT!

I will be using "The Princeton Review, Cracking the SAT 2020 Edition", you can get this book or any SAT book at the library or your local bookstore!

So here's my plan!

1 - I need to look over the format, requirements, and content of the SAT

• I plan on starting this by Nov. 30, 2019
• Figuring out what the sections are 
• What is the content in each section 

2 - Figure out where I am with the test 

• Actually taking the test
• I plan on starting this on Dec. 10, 2019 

3 - Start improving things that I didn't do well on the practice test 

• This means going over the subjects 
• Doing more practice problems in those sections 
• Going over it and understanding it 
• I plan on starting this on Dec. 20, 2019

So that's my plan leave comments if you think I should add more onto my plan! 

(This is still only a basic plan) 

My plan for the SAT!

This blog will be about my plan for the SAT! Even though I am only a Sophmore, you must get a head start, so you are prepared for the SAT in junior year. One key thing you need to prepare for the SAT is an SAT prep guide.

So I plan to start my SAT preparation is I will look over the SAT format and learn how it is formatted and how it is graded. After I figure that out, I will look over the sections and read the description of the sections, so I know what is going on. After I do that, I'm going to take a practice test and grade it. After I grade it, I'm going to go over the problems I missed, and I'm going to go more into depth about that topic. After I have gone over the topics, I have missed on the practice test. I will then take that section again and grade myself again. I will then repeat.

Sorry, this blog wasn't very clear I was trying to get my ideas out, I will do a much clearer blog next time!

How does plastic affect us?

In my last blog in the label "Saving The World From Plastic" was about plastic in our oceans. Even though plastic in our oceans is a huge problem, there is also the problem of plastic pollution in our world; this includes how plastic affects us, humans.

One question you might be asking is, what is plastic pollution? The definition of plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles, for example, plastic bottles and much more. This adversely affects the earth's environment and wildlife, wildlife habitat, and even us humans. Plastic that act as pollutants are categorized into micro, meso, or macro debris based on size.

How is plastic pollution affecting the earth's environment? First of all, plastic takes a very long time to decompose. If the plastic is left in the environment for long enough, it can leak toxic chemicals into our soil and waters. Ruining both the way our planet looks and also destroying the earth in general.

When the plastic leaks toxic chemicals into our soils and waters, it affects humans and animals. It affects humans because we eat plants that grow from the soil if there is plastic or toxic chemicals in that soil we are going to consume it, and then the plastic will also be in us. It affects animals because animals eat grass or vegetables. Where do these greens come from? They grow out of the soil, meaning animals will also have plastic and toxic chemicals in them. Not only that, this then comes back to us, because we eat the animals for meat. For example, beef, pork and that's not even all of them, that means we are also starting to eat the plastics.