The first post

Welcome to College Letters. I'm RS, a homeschooled senior. I took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) at the end of my junior year, and scored 1550 on the reading & math portions of the test.

I started the blog just after I had received four letters from four different colleges. I'd said that I wanted to use the Student Search Service that the College Board offers. It was free. Why not? I was (and still am) fairly sure of where I wanted to go; the SSS was basically just to keep my options open and to see where I could really go if I wanted. Curiosity, of course!

As it is, I've found that I could go anywhere. I may not be able to afford it, but if I wanted to apply to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Duke, I could and I'd be accepted. And at the college I really want to attend, I've scored just high enough for the best academic scholarship.

My full score was: 800 on Critical Reading, 750 on Math, and 760 on Writing. I wasn't too sure how I'd do on the writing portion, because even though I'm pretty good at writing, I really like rewriting my first draft, since it's never very good! (As you can probably guess; this blog is a good approximation of my first-draft style.) I was able to finish my first-draft essay, fortunately.

On this blog you'll read about all the letters I get from various colleges. I hope to assign one post per letter, but if the barrage gets too heavy, I will have to combine some. I rather doubt that that will happen, though.

This blog is dedicated to my parents, who - since I've been homeschooled since preschool - have taught me nearly everything I know. :-)