#chuwahl

I’m going to assume you’re a rising senior in high school since you mention the college process, so I apologize if I’m wrong. It’s like you took the words from my younger self because I felt the exact same way. I walked into the college process relatively confident because, well, my grades were pretty up there. And I remember a time period when I was insanely down and depressed because I got rejected from scholarship after scholarship. After 6 or so, I don’t remember haha, rejections, I was ready to give up until the one I got finally accepted me.

Between a full ride scholarship and a collection of scholarships, you can build up money by just searching and trying. For a full ride, I recommend the QuestBridge Scholarship (one I got rejected from). This scholarship is like every student’s dream come true. It’s a full ride with room and board and books and basically EVERYTHING covered. The scholarship is INSANELY prestigious and competitive not only because of the benefits, but the schools it partners with. From USC to Yale University, the scholarship is just a DREAM. So try applying for it! If you get rejected, it’s fine because you’ll have all the writing done. I wrote one of the essay prompts in the summer and eventually used that prompt as my college essay.

Just scrap as many scholarships as you can by writing essays or drawing contests or anything! There’s literally scholarships for everything, check out Fastweb!!!

I see you listen to BTS, me too gurl me too. I got into BTS because of their lyrics. N.O, No More Dream, and Young Forever hit me so hard. I would listen to BTS all the time to make me feel better and motivate me in school. A few lyrics that inspired me were:

“Don’t be trapped in someone else’s dream.” - No More Dream

“Students who are pressured to be number one live in between dream and reality,” - N.O

buy things you want to use

I would save up money to buy nice pens and notebooks when I can instead of clothes and nice food. Then it forces me to use those utensils to make the money worth it. HORRENDOUS piece of advice but hey it helped me out haha.

find friendos

This is probably hypocritical coming from me since my friends at school don’t give two hot dogs about school but find people who’ll support and understand you! Even though my friends hated school, they supported and understood me when I couldn’t hang out or when I had to go home early.

readings!

We had to read a lot of textbooks and stuff for psychology class and haha I was the only person who would read and take notes. because of that, i was ahead of the class, i understood the class better, and used it more as review!

studying in short intervals

in psych class, we learned that cramming does not help at all. Distributed studying works the best! basically you break up what would be a potential 3 hour study session to 3 days of one hour studying. I always look through my notes even for just a small bit.

for me personally, i never study the night before the test. Too stressful for me so i just don’t do it.

find a place to study

room, cafe, library, whatever works well! i like to change up my places so i can get a breath of fresh air

MUSIC

alright i didnt actually get into k-pop until my sophomore/junior year and i only started listening because I couldn’t think in English if I listened to music in English. I ended up listening to piano or classical music but eventually decided to move into foreign language. now i’m just kpop trash.

5 Steps to a 5: AP Psychology (I linked the 2018 version from amazon)

500 AP Psychology Questions

this book is broken up into units of the ap exam and important questions from it. Most questions in ap exams are repeated from last year’s so this is a really great book!

Barron’s AP Psychology (this is 2017 version)

Barron’s AP Psychology Flashcards

This is a must!! I break the cards into units that corresponds with the books above. The definitions are simple and easy to understand, too.

For ap us history, I used both barrons and 5 steps but leaned towards 5 steps by the end of the class. Both of them have their ups and downs but 5 steps’ material was more helpful to me, so I bought only that for ap psych. It’s preference so whatever you lean towards. There’s also princeton review but not a big fan of how bulky it is haha.

Quizlet has a bunch of great review material for ap psych and I usually use it to get a definition explained differently.

The evil CollegeBoard website is the home base for ap psych so you can find old tests and frqs inside. Did I mention that they’re evil?

The thing about me is, I like to spend money on AP classes. If I can buy a book for $10 and get a perfect score and college credits, then heck yeah I’ll spend that $10. I hated having to spend money on a class (let alone a high school class) but I just gotta weigh the pros and cons. Free college credits!??!?!?! Not gonna let that opportunity pass.