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Best Comprehensive DSAT English Study Guides?

Please link them below (PDF's/websites,etc.). If some videos are really really good, please link them, but only if they are REALLY good. I'd rather prefer a document or a website.

For context, I'm currently about a 780-800 math but my english is like 680-700. I need to lock in on that. Any other tips are also welcome. Thanks!!

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u/serotoninseesaw — 2 days ago

What is this?

I’m 16 kind of a hypochondriac and I have these soars on the inside of my cheek. Appeared maybe two weeks ago and haven’t really been going away. Fairly painful when I apply pressure on them. Please tell me this isn’t oral cancer

u/serotoninseesaw — 8 days ago

Chance mid research chud HOSA president desperate for JHU ED and T20's

Demographics

Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: Wasian
Residence: United States
Income Bracket: Upper income
School Type: Public High school
Hooks: diagnosed with incurable disease in highschool --> changed my perspective on life and gave me direction to focus my research
Intended Major(s): Cellular & Molecular Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry

Academics
GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW
Rank: N/A
Coursework: 14 APs

SAT: 1530 (790 math/740 reading)
AP Scores: 5s on AP World, Bio, Physics 1, CSP --> expecting more 5's this year on Physics 2, Chem, APUSH, Lang, Stats, Calc AB

Extracurriculars / Activities
Leadership — HOSA Chapter President | Grades 11, 12 - Directing the largest chapter state with over 250+ active members

Research — Independent Research | Grade 11, 12 - Computational immunology project with researcher at Harvard, work submitted to state science fair, accepted to ISMB 2026

Research - Research Institute | Grade 11, 12 - Partnered with local research institute to run in vitro confirmation of my previous findings. Utilized lentiviral assays to validate immune responses

Research - Local Children's Hospital | Grade 11, 12 | Virtual bioinformatics internship with lab, doing transcriptomics and data analysis

Civic Service | Grade 11 (Summer) - 5 member team got granted $7500 by the Carnegie Foundation to conduct a community project building youth driven newspapers in disadvantaged communities around our region

Leadership - School Senate | Grade 9-12 | Handpicked by principal to serve on a board with 15 other people, focused on school improvement

Job/Intern - | Grade 10 (summer) | Worked at a dental office sophomore year summer as an assistant - 2/3 times a week for over 100 hours total

Sport - XC/TF Member and Senior Leader | Grades 9–12 | Won Most Improved award; Served on senior leadership team

Random Project | Grade 9 | nonprofit where I raised $750 by baking bread and donating it to a mental health organization

Piano | Grade 9-12| Performer at teachers studio playing on concerts in Fall/Summer

Leadership - History Club Director of Activities | Grades 11-12| 30+ member club and I basically make what we do each meeting

Honors & Awards

  1. State Science Fair First Place
  2. State Science Fair 2nd Place
  3. HOSA International Emotional Wellbeing Recognition
  4. USABO Merit Top 30%
  5. HOSA State Placed 3rd ATC Physics

LORs
HOSA Advisor + Honors Bio teacher rec letter 9.5/10 definitely likes me a lot and we connected a ton over this past year, known to write good LOR as well

AP World teacher rec letter 8.5/10 - he's letting me right it myself so it can probably be pretty good

AP Stats teacher rec letter 7/10 - I was probably one of his favorite students but he's not amazing at writing

Colleges

Reach:

Stanford, Harvard, JHU - ED, Northwestern, Duke, UPenn, Dartmouth, Brown, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Emory, Rice, Boston University

Target:

University of Washington, University of Michigan, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara,

Safety:
In state public

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u/serotoninseesaw — 12 days ago

Best Shoe Recommendations for HighSchool XC Runner with PF

I have put probably over 500 miles on my Asics Novoblast 5's and am looking to get a new shoes. To put this in perspective I run about 30 miles a week. These shoes started out well but then started giving me more pain. Do you have any reliable suggestions that seem to work well with PF?

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u/serotoninseesaw — 14 days ago
▲ 7 r/LearnGuitar+1 crossposts

Best used amps for beginners

Can someone send a link that they think would be good? I'm not sure what's reasonable but maybe like cap it at 100 bucks or so

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u/serotoninseesaw — 14 days ago

Dexcom G7 and Airport X-ray

Hi I’m not a frequent flyer so I wanted to ask something to clarify this.

  1. I know that the metal detector is okay for the dexcom G7
  2. Have people been through the fully body X-ray with it? I usually have TSA so I can avoid this, but now I don’t have it tomorrow so I’m not sure. If they make me do it, should I request a pat down?

Thanks a lot.

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u/serotoninseesaw — 21 days ago
▲ 4 r/APChem+2 crossposts

Marker Chromatography Challenge (please help!)

I’m not sure how many of you all are familiar with the this but I suppose it’s worth a shot. My AP chem’s teacher final project is using marker chromatography to copy his design. My grade is genuinely on the like here so does anyone know how to make this? Guide me through the initial pattern please!!

Picture 1: best initial design so far
Picture 2: result of picture 1

Goal: the thing we are trying to make

u/serotoninseesaw — 24 days ago

Let’s talk about passing out

Research shows it’s bound to happen sooner or later. I don’t have anxiety about it but I am curious.

  1. who’s gone through it before and what was the context
  2. did you know it was going to happen and how did you feel leading up to it?
  3. any tips/things to know?
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u/serotoninseesaw — 28 days ago

As someone who has gotten a 5 in Physics 1 and probably will get a 5 in Physics 2, I do not give thanks for Flipping Physics

Overrated and doesnt teach well imo, but people in this sub and AP students seem to glaze him so much help

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u/serotoninseesaw — 1 month ago

SAT signup

Why are all the testing centers already filled within 100 mile radius for August/September/October? Any other parents very confused about this? Is it possible that they just haven't opened their registration yet and as a result just say that "all spots taken"

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u/serotoninseesaw — 1 month ago
▲ 10 r/Kanye

Judge this (relatively new) Kanye fan

  1. Through the wire
  2. Devil in a new dress
  3. Violent Crimes
  4. Runaway
  5. Pt 1
  6. No more parties in LA
  7. Ghost Town
  8. All Falls Down
  9. Champion
  10. Good Life

Honorable Mention: God Is

Also recommend songs I might like pls 🙏

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u/serotoninseesaw — 1 month ago

NU is the most beautiful campus I've ever seen. Is premed good here

Current high school junior and I think NU is more well known for its social science majors and humanities but it's also ranked pretty well for pre med. Is there great research for undergrads for premeds? I know the med school is like top tier and I would also love to go there. Does anyone have input on this.

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u/serotoninseesaw — 1 month ago
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Seattle SAT

Why are all the testing sites within 100 mile radius already filled for August and October? Have these sites just not opened their registration yet and they say "spots filled?" It's not realistic because I remember last year registering for August pretty late and there were still spots open. What's going on?

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u/serotoninseesaw — 1 month ago