Thanks so much guys

LYIB...wow! Thanks for all the information - I never would have known the test taking strategies otherwise. Sometimes when I'm taking regular tests at school, I catch the right answer to a previous question somewhere later in the test. I always find these - there's at least a couple. Kind of reminds me of that.

I wish I could take a class...I looked up the prices for Princeton Review and they start at around $3,000 Really? Give me a break.

I only have taken classes up to algebra ll. It'll kill me if I have to go any further. I barely squeaked by this year with a D+ in that class. Next I would be taking trig/precalc, but I'm not going to. No sense putting myself through that hell of a course just to raise my overall score a couple points, because chances are I won't remember a bit of material from the class. My schedule doesn't have room for it - I take classes at two schools:

Regular Gen-Ed high school
Art lll
Advanced biology
Gov't/Econ

Arts and Sciences Academy
Language Arts
hopefully another visual art class, if not then probably journalism or creative writing.

I know these special classes might seem trivial when I could be taking courses to improve my lacking math and sciences skills, but I'm willing to sacrifice those so that I can study English at a special school....I've pined after Interlochen for years!

Anyways, sorry for the long ramble. I'm also going to take the ACT, yes...this coming March I believe.

I'm not trying to get into Harvard...but American University would be insane! Ok, so that probably won't happen with my GPA, but can't one dream?

More than likely I'll stick to a state university...perhaps equally unlikely, but what about the University of Michigan? I live about two hours from Ann Arbor so it wouldn't be such a big change of scenery.

My first choice is Michigan State. Not quite so unlikely as UofM. I want to double major in psychology and journalism. Can I do that?

Thanks for all your help, everyone...I know I'm being stubborn, but I'm in my 3rd year of art now and it means the world to me to be able to take these classes. I'll do better in a subject I enjoy.