For The High School Students Here

Since my school is making students submit their course choices for next year within a week or so, I'm assuming other high schools are doing the same. If so, what are you taking next year? And what about this year?

My schedual for next year currently looks like:
1) AP Bio or AP Chem (Both are double blocks (counts as two classes) but are at the same time, so I need to choose. Leaning towards AP Chem.)
2) AP Physics
3) AP Earth Science
4) AP Statistics
5) AP English

Now that takes up 6 hours. But there may be a schedualing issue with AP Physics, in which case I'd just dual enroll at one of the local collages and take a history or business course.

Also, I am looking at taking the following half year courses online next year:
6) AP Macroeconomics
7) AP Comparative Government

The reason I'm not taking any social studies during the day is at my school students usually graduate with only 3 full years of social studies, since the freshman course isn't reall social studies, but I already have 4 full years as of right now, and have taken all the AP social studies courses offered. But, if I can take it online, then the two above (AP Macroeconomics and AP Comparative Government) then I'd have 5 full years of it.

And, just in case somebody doesn't know what AP is, they are college-level courses which you sometimes recieve college credit for.

My schedual this year:
1) FST (AP Stats Pre-req)
2) Biology (AP Bio and AP Chem Pre-req)
3) Telecom/Psyc (Required)
4) AP English
5) AP US History
6) AP Gov


Now, what are you taking this year and next?

 

Hmm...
AP Calculus
Eng Hon (AP sucks this year)
Physics Hon
Wrestling (weightlifting)
AP Macroeconmics / American Government
Business Direct Studys (My own class for developing my web sites)
and 1 Class out!

Should be fun next year, but this is kind of a stupid thread.

 

Take it from someone who took AP classes in high school 10 (ahem) or so years ago. Don't. Complete waste of time. All you get is harder classes and tests and your college benefit (assuming you are looking for that) is negligible - if any.

 

^ Like he said... AP is a complete waste of time

Only good to take them to say "I'm smarter than you!!!!111"

 

I took AP classes, I think you learn more then in a regular class and get more challenging assignments.

 

how about drop outs?

 

I don't care about the credit. I just care about getting it to look better on my applications.

 

Yeah, that doesn't matter either. College entrant people look at about 2 things:

1-GPA - AP classes tend to lower this. With AP classes, I was 3.5/4, if you take them out of the mix I was 3.8 or something

2-SAT score

Think colleges care if you got a 4.0 with normal classes or without? Nope, they don't. In part, they get their funding by accepting students with higher GPAs. So its far more important.

 

im form the UK and in colelge, is that like the same as High school in US or something, never heard of "AP's" but im currently studying Maths, Further Maths, Physcs and Computuing, all pretty good, and im carryin on maths for defo next year, dunno what im gonna do wiv my self after that tho

 

anyone here take the IB programme?

 

take spelling?

 

well since international baccalaureate (IB) is french.

dumbass

 

im form the UK and in colelge, is that like the same as High school in US or something, never heard of "AP's" but im currently studying Maths, Further Maths, Physcs and Computuing, all pretty good, and im carryin on maths for defo next year, dunno what im gonna do wiv my self after that tho

Josh

 

AP = advanced placement. i did a different program, but i believe you have to take a test to get your credit? or is it based on your grade?

anyways if you break a threshold most colleges will see it as credits.

IB works that way as well, if you receive a score 5 or higher in your higher level , most colleges will accept those as credits as well

 

For my HS, if you took an AP class, whatever grade you got was supposed to transfer to college for credit and GPA. That's what we were told at least. In reality, nothing was transferred. Schools said AP program credits only transfer if you go to a junior college first, not a 4 year school. I took AP chemistry, AP physics, AP world history, I was in calculus 2 (which is equiv to calc I in college), and latin 2 in HS. Nothing transferred. I had a frickin hard ass senior year.

Other kids were taking algebra 3, french 1, and got a break period (no class, just sit in the library) and were getting 4.0s and qualified for better scholarships, while I was workin my ass for these dumb ass classes that didn't help me at all. (Yep, I'm still bitter LOL).

Of all those, latin was the only good one and I still know quite a bit today.

 

Depends what college, most colleges dont wanna give you $2000 for free, that being the smallest tuition for half a year in NY

 

I hadn't heard that, though I'd assume it applies to state schools. And since I'm applying only to private institutions, that's a non-issue.
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Seiya, what point was the free $2000 in reference to?