Hey, congrats to everyone who's gotten in!

I myself got into Emory University in Georgia (my first choice and a big reach, yay!), which I am very surprised about because my SAT scores suck and I am sort of sucking at Calculus right now. I think being black had something to do with it. Go-go-affirmative action?

But it's killer expensive so I'm afraid my parents won't pay for it. Especially because college here in Florida is basically free (they pass out Bright Futures scholarships like candy), and since I got accepted into University of Florida, I might be forced to go there because of monetary constraints. Which I really don't want to, because I want to get out of Florida and away from all these people I know in high school, and a ton of them are going to UF so... plus, Emory is just better. :P

I chose to major in English or Literature (my strongest subjects) for most of my applications so I could secretly switch over to Computer Science when nobody was looking, but I'm kind of thinking over that again. English makes absolutely no money (AUGH), but after taking calculus for a year, I've discovered that suck immensely at upper-level math. And pre-med's a no because I dislike all the squiggly organisms you have to study in Biology. Just typing about them makes me feel queasy. Economics has too much math, I'm not good enough to major in Music, nor do I want to (same goes for Art), and how I would end up in Chemical Engineering when it's in a completely different section of most colleges is beyond me. So I suppose that leaves me to major in English or like... political science. -______-

WunderBread... there's always Psychology, but then again that makes no money either... Actually as a whole there are so many different paths you can take in University that lead to nowhere. It's kind of ridiculous.

Ah, I forgot that one. It's a shame, really, that all of the majors I find interesting make no money and all of the boring ones practically guarantee wealth. Sometimes I wish I didn't like money so much. I know that money is the root of all evil and everything, but I can't stop dreaming of an Infinity pool....

I'd seriously consider becoming an an aesthesiaologist for that $300,000 if beginning biology didn't make me 'ick' like it does. Seriously: cadavers? No problem. Bacteria? Ugh.

Wait... you have to take secondary random classes as well or something? Here it's like solid spend all your life for three yuears on one course.

There are a required amount of freshman courses you have to take (some you can either test out of or substitute with AP/IB credit, though at some colleges, you can't do that). Mostly, you have to declare a major in your sophomore year, but waiting around until then may have you spending extra years in college to complete your core classes. Or something like that.

Wait... you have to take secondary random classes as well or something? Here it's like solid spend all your life for three yuears on one course.

Here's the requirements at my school:
6 hours of Freshmen Composition (Writing essays, etc)
12 hours of Humanities and Fine Arts (Literature sequence, Theater/Art History/whatever, Music, Communication/Public Speaking, etc)
11 hours of Natural Science and Math (Geology/Astronomy/Physics/etc, Math)
12 hours of Social Science/History (History/Economics/Psychology/etc)
4 hours of Computer Sciences or Foreign Language (...)
6 hours of courses designated as a Writing Component course
33 hours in Major
18-27 hours in a Minor
12 hours of Special Requirements (Junior/Senior level coursework outside Major/Minor)
+ X number of hours in General Electives if all of the above does not come out to be 124 hours

I'm attending Penn State Erie with a major in journalism.  I leave in August.

that's...a little absurd. what's the major in question? most humanities dont require csc classes and only a few maths, and vice versa for comp sci classes.

Broadcast Management. Its the bastard offspring of General Business Administration and Advertising/Public Relations. 

how do american hours work in college? here most papers (each class i guess is a paper) is worth 12.5 hours, so 124 over four years would be kinda...nothing?

Most classes are around 3-5 credit hours iirc.

That's pretty shitty. When you go to specialise in a subject... generally you would want to specialise in it. Spending less time on it and more on maths or something is retarded. Then again I can see it might be used to break up the monotomy, I mean I'll be spending all my time at uni studying one course.

Mostly it's to weed out the kids who wouldn't plan on graduating, anyway. What sucks is that I got a five on the AP Language test, but most colleges only take Literature OR Language, and not both. And sometimes they don't even waive Freshman composition or anything. But I have to take a senior English class, so....

Just got wait-listed from Duke, which is okay, really, because I hear it's cold up in North Carolina. 

Wow, education in the US is hilariously expensive. I mean, I pay 2300 euros (3600 USD) a year for five/six years (not counting the cost of books and stuff) and that's all the way up to when I can call myself MSc.

First year biology consists of only mandatory courses, two/three per period (out of five periods). It's mostly been basic stuff like chemistry, mathematics and physics, but also cell biology, plant anatomy and physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and now zoology. Next period I'll have ecology and this flora and fauna thing (you know, real biology). Lately I've been having fun cutting up sharks and electrocuting earthworms. I'll only get to specialise and choose my own courses halfway through next year.

Plant anatomy and evolutionary genetics have been really fun and interesting but sitting through four continuous hours of physics each afternoon is really tiresome. Fun fact: of the book that takes you Americans an entire year to cover we'll cover half in three weeks. Yay.