u/Any-Inflation1368

PPR, Redraft, 12-man (2 WR, 2 FLEX)

QBs: Prescott, Shough

RBs: Jeanty, ETN, Tuten, Brian Robinson

WRs: Lamb, Garrett Wilson, Moore, Downs, Ridley

TEs: Kraft, Juwan Johnson

I got the 1.09, so I was able to get Lamb and Jeanty in the first two. Then I got Garrett Wilson and ETN. Unfortunately, I missed out on a lot of the targets, like Egbuka and McConkey. What else should I try to improve on? I just feel like the team is too balanced/average to make any good trades. I'd appreciate any advice.

Demographics

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Asian

Residence: Northeast

Income Bracket: Upper middle class, no financial aid

Type of School: Competitive public

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): Computer Engineering + Business

Academics

GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW, ~4.9 W

Rank (or percentile): School does not rank

# of APs/Honors/DE: Most rigorous curriculum available, 7 APs, advanced math pathway

Senior Year Course Load:

• Multivariable Calculus
• AP Stats
• AP Physics C (E+M/Mech)
• AP Lit
• AP Micro
• CAD

Standardized Testing

SAT: 1570 (800 Math, 770 RW)

APs: All 5s (still taking several senior year)

Extracurriculars/Activities (vague, sorry):

1. AI software startup for sports coaches, used by top state HS team + 1 D1 school + top 5 national club
2. Robotics/AI research at a T10 university under PhD (ongoing)
3. Programming leadership position on robotics team (qualified for Worlds)
4. President of STEM academic competition team, multiple state medals in STEM subjects
5. National-level debate competition, multiple major awards at invitationals
6. Officer of school AI/ML club with ~20 members
7. Volunteer ambassador at intl non-profit, raised ~$5k through events/spoken in front of ~500
8. Private tutoring business (~$1000 in revenue)
9. Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts)

Awards/Honors (highkey bad, need help):

1. 2x National award at invitational debate/government competition (top ~20/800)
2. Multiple state medals in STEM academic competition (top 1/~100)
3. Eagle Scout

Schools:

• Penn M&T (ED, not expecting to get in, Eng. fall back)
• Harvard
• Stanford
• MIT
• CMU
• Duke
• UC Berkeley (eng + business)
• UMich (eng + business)
• GT
• UT Austin (eng + business)
• UIUC
• UMD
• safeties

Note: for all dual degrees, I will indicate eng. as my primary, so if I don't get into the dual, they'll still consider me for eng

I'd appreciate any help! Thanks!

- Armin Arlert

The greatest quote of the series 😢

Demographics

Gender: Male

Race/Ethnicity: Asian

Residence: Northeast

Income Bracket: Upper middle class, no financial aid

Type of School: Competitive public

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): Computer Engineering + Business

Academics

GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW, ~4.9 W

Rank (or percentile): School does not rank

# of APs/Honors/DE: Most rigorous curriculum available, 7 APs, advanced math pathway

Senior Year Course Load:

• Multivariable Calculus
• AP Stats
• AP Physics C (E+M/Mech)
• AP Lit
• AP Micro
• CAD

Standardized Testing

SAT: 1570 (800 Math, 770 RW)

APs: All 5s (still taking several senior year)

Extracurriculars/Activities (vague, sorry):

1. AI software startup for sports coaches, used by top state HS team + 1 D1 school + top 5 national club
2. Robotics/AI research at a T10 university under PhD (ongoing)
3. Programming leadership position on robotics team (qualified for Worlds)
4. President of STEM academic competition team, multiple state medals in STEM subjects
5. National-level debate competition, multiple major awards at invitationals
6. Officer of school AI/ML club with ~20 members
7. Volunteer ambassador at intl non-profit, raised ~$5k through events/spoken in front of ~500
8. Private tutoring business (~$1000 in revenue)
9. Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts)

Awards/Honors (highkey bad, need help):

1. 2x National award at invitational debate/government competition (top ~20/800)
2. Multiple state medals in STEM academic competition (top 1/~100)
3. Eagle Scout

Schools:

• Penn M&T (ED, not expecting to get in, Eng. fall back)
• Harvard
• Stanford
• MIT
• CMU
• Duke
• UC Berkeley (eng + business)
• UMich (eng + business)
• GT
• UT Austin (eng + business)
• UIUC
• UMD
• safeties

Note: for all dual degrees, I will indicate eng. as my primary, so if I don't get into the dual, they'll still consider me for eng

I'd appreciate any help! Thanks!

I'm rewatching the show, and I noticed that Water (full moons, once a month) and Fire (Sozin's comet, once every 100 years) each get a "power-up" for a certain time period. Note: I find it funny that Fire only becomes maxxed out once a century while water is literally once a month.

However, do Air or Earth get anything like this?

My friend and I are high schoolers who've been building a small app for volleyball coaches, and I wanted to get honest feedback from people who actually coach or play.

The idea started when I was watching a match and noticed how much a coach sees in real time, from footwork to tempo to positioning, and how that's basically impossible to write down mid-rally. We talked to our school's coach about it, and he said the same thing: he notices a ton during the match, but most of it's gone by the time it's over.

So we built something where a coach taps a button and says what they saw out loud ("libero drifting too deep in serve receive," "block closing late on the outside"), and it transcribes and organizes it automatically so it's there for timeouts or after the match.

A local team used it during their playoff run this spring, but we want to know if anyone else would use it.

We're just genuinely curious what you guys think. Is this something you'd actually reach for during a match, or is a clipboard/phone note just simpler in practice? I can DM the link if anyone wants to try.

My friend and I are high schoolers who've been building a small app for volleyball coaches, and I wanted to get honest feedback from people who actually coach or play.

The idea started when I was watching a match and noticed how much a coach sees in real time, from footwork to tempo to positioning, and how that's basically impossible to write down mid-rally. We talked to our school's coach about it, and he said the same thing: he notices a ton during the match, but most of it's gone by the time it's over.

So we built something where a coach taps a button and says what they saw out loud ("libero drifting too deep in serve receive," "block closing late on the outside"), and it transcribes and organizes it automatically so it's there for timeouts or after the match.

A local team used it during their playoff run this spring, but we want to know if anyone else would use it.

We're just genuinely curious what you guys think. Is this something you'd actually reach for during a match, or is a clipboard/phone note just simpler in practice? I can DM the link if anyone wants to try.

https://preview.redd.it/t8i6yj9o249h1.png?width=1233&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d3759693e3458d1c0131c1d61d2931d8f793c16

This was my first SAT ever, and I ended up with a 1570 (800 Math, 770 Reading/Writing).

I've always been pretty good at math, but reading was definitely my weaker section, especially I&I questions. For about the last year, I've been trying to read a New York Times article every day. It only takes 5–10 minutes, but I'd basically treat each article like an SAT passage. IE asking questions like: what's the main idea? What are they actually trying to say? What evidence supports it? I think getting into that mindset consistently helped a lot.

Beyond that, it was mostly practice, practice, practice. I used OnePrep almost exclusively, plus a little bit of the College Board question bank. I liked OnePrep because it pulls from the official SAT question bank while also giving analytics and tracking your progress.

I never used a tutor and didn't spend money on prep. One thing that helped, though, was having Gemini Pro through my school. If I got a question wrong, I'd ask it to explain the logic behind the answer choices. For harder questions, I'd have it create similar or remixed versions so I could practice the same skill again.

For practice tests, I always took them between 8-9 AM on weekends right after waking up. It sounds minor, but I wanted the experience to match actual test day as closely as possible.

For math, this was actually my first ever 800. On practice tests I was usually scoring 780-790. One thing I'd recommend is getting really comfortable with Desmos. A surprising number of questions can be solved much faster with it, especially regression problems and other algebra-heavy questions. Sometimes something that takes a minute by hand can be done in a few seconds.

I also think it's important to expose yourself to as many question types as possible. At some point it becomes less about content and more about recognizing problem-solving patterns.

PS: I'm not actually super qualified, I just think the June SAT curve was pretty generous.

AMA.

Demographics: Indian Male, comp public school in the Northeast

Stats: 4.0 UW, 4.9 W, 1570 SAT (800 M, 770 RW)

Coursework: 6 APs (notably Calc BC, Lang, CSA) taken with 4 more next year (Physics C) and MV Calc

Intended Major: Computer Engineering/Economics (major/minor)

Awards:

- 2x Best Delegate in niche debate club at nationals (top 24/~700)

- 2 Gold Medals in Acadec States in STEM events: (1st/~200 for both)

- Eagle Scout (BSA) for service project

- National Merit Scholar (kinda lame i guess)

Extracurriculars:

1. Co-developer of AI coaching assistant for sports teams with 10+ coaches using it, including a top 5 VB team in the state
2. Research with PhD student on acoustics and computation (at local T10)
3. Academic Decathlon President (with aforementioned awards), national qualification
4. FRC Robotics Programming Director, qualified for worlds, worked on auton planning, PID tuning
5. Niche debate club (don't want to get doxxed): top-5 national competitive club, traveled to several national invitationals and got awards
6. AI/ML Club co-president: taught 20+ students about AI, conducted projects and presented at first-ever district showcase
7. Private Tutor, 10+ active students, $1000+ revenue, independent business
8. Eagle Scout from BSA
9. Youth Ambassador for international hunger relief nonprofit, public speaking at galas, organized events
10. Boys Tennis, JV, top-5 state program

Schools:

Reaches: Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Penn M&T (ED), CMU ECE/CompE, Berkeley Engineering, Duke, Cornell Engineering, UMich Engineering, GT

Targets: UT Austin Engineering, UIUC Engineering, UW Madison, Purdue

Safeties: In-state tech schools

Hoping to get into at least one reach 🙏🙏

Just finished AOT, and hands down one of the greatest shows I've ever watched. I watched the entire Shinganshina arc in one night, and it legitimately might've been one of the most impactful media I've ever seen.

So much symbolism/parallels/irony in this show that I feel like I could write an AP Lang rhetorical essay about it.

Obv I have other takeaways but the one thing I keep thinking about is: Levi should've just killed Zeke man. So, so many opportunities. First in Shinganshina, then in the forest, then with the Thunder Spear incident. Cmon man.

https://preview.redd.it/pn2ehvo8pi0h1.png?width=1504&format=png&auto=webp&s=e820c131270f9acbef0b90ffefb627ad326f2ab9

Studied passively for a few months and saw a huge difference in my score. Taking June (need to get 1520+, my dad said he'd pay me money because I'd save him the cost of going to a summer class). I'm in 10th grade btw.