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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a HYPS. I was an unhooked white female from NYC. 2400 SATs and in the top 1/3rd of my class (but not higher) at a public magnet. Did not try hard at all and constantly got marked down for late/I don’t homework. Two extracurriculars with national recognition, but not like in a prodigy sort of way. Intended to major in math and philosophy, which probably helped; but ended up as an EP&E major.

Actually found my school very easy; much easier than HS since I could avoid hard subjects that I wasn’t interested in and there was no busy work.  Summa without much effort and gone most weekends for an EC. I got a lot out of the school, but didn’t find the academics particularly challenging.[/quote]

EP&E?  Did you go to Stuyvesant or Hunter?[/quote]

Ethics, politics & economics -- it's a "selective" major at Yale modeled off of Oxford's "PPE" (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) major. ("Selective" just meaning that you have to apply; I think the odds of admission are pretty high if you've taken someone of the required classes and have decent grades.)

I went to Hunter.[/quote]

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