<p>I was wondering how many classes should i sign up for at my boarding school, it’s a very competitive school, we can take maximum of 6 classes, but only 10% of the students do so. Should i sign up for 6 classes or 5 classes for next year?</p>
<p>Talk to your advisor. That’s what they’re there for.</p>
<p>Your thinking about classes lol…Im thinking about getting in.</p>
<p>If you get in, take 5. Fall semester, freshman year is not the time to try to be a hero. It’s the time to acclimate to everything, to begin to figure out what your limits are and what you want them to be.</p>
<p>It matters whether or not you think you can handle it and if you’re organized enough to be able to work it out.</p>
<p>I personally take 6 classes and i’m doing fine. But I know some people who have a hard time handling 5</p>
<p>bigred,
what percentage of kids at exeter take 6 classes?</p>
<p>I would highly suggest only taking 5 classes. Especially for your first term. 6 is enough to kill anybody, even if you have already been at the school.</p>
<p>But its just one class…I dont get it. Cant be that much harder</p>
<p>it depends on the class you take. let’s say you opt to take a free period and not do physics (let’s also assume your previous school accelerated your science program, if that is humanly possible. many students are qualified for physics in freshman year though, some private schools make it mandatory)</p>
<p>well, look! <em>this depends on the school in terms of time but…</em> you have an hour and half to just relax! MAYBE you can do some homework. MAYBE you can study for the test. in fact, maybe you can sleep somewhere.</p>
<p>but if you don’t have that class, one more subject comes up on your transcripts. in some way it is a chance to boost your GPA, depending on the class, but if you’re doing a class you’re interested in, it’s also to boost your “range of classes that i actually like to be in”
but strictly speaking, another class is more demanding. it depend son the class, though. sometimes you might be taking precalc or something and to you that’s way more demanding than squeezing in a history class, nevermind not having a class entirely.</p>
<p>but i’m confused. don’t some schools give more than 6 classes? i can’t imagine doing less than eight =/</p>
<p>8? You would be in class till 11pm, its not like normal school. You may have a few classes then lunch…then practice, then another class. If you take 8 and have to do a mandatory sport during the time they give you, its impossible to do 8 if you plan on sleeping and eating.</p>
<p>It’s not impossible to do eight. Every public school in my area does 8 classes and at my boarding school we had 8 periods of the day (I always took 7 classes and a free period). You definitely don’t have class after practice, lol, that would be ridiculous.</p>
<p>I attend Exeter, and every prep(freshman) I know takes six classes, one of them being health which is mandatory. We are all doing fine. For the first month it seems impossible, but you get used to it.</p>
<p>Well waht boarding school do you go to hj, becuase thats what my exeter and st paul interviewers told me. I mean im sure you could fit 10 classes in if each one was 15 minutes</p>
<p>We only have four classes a day but I go to public school and all of my classes are an hour and a half long. In middle school though we had 8 classes a day</p>
<p>Say you already took health I’m applying as a repeat freshman. I actually took health in 8th grade. It was a high school class and we get high school credit for it here. Would I have to take it again?</p>
<p>mpicz, I’m sure there are 6 classes at those schools, I was just saying that it’s not impossible to have eight classes - there are plenty of schools around where there are 8 periods in a day and not six, and no, they’re not just for 15 minutes, it just depends on where you go. Every school has different schedules. I don’t know about the class after sports thing, maybe it does happen, I just find that really weird, because why would you have class after sports.</p>
<p>Because they had practice after lunch or something like that. Then take like 1 more class or something, I wasn’t 100% sure what he was talkin about.</p>
<p>I was just wondering what the percentage of the kids at top boarding schools take 6 classes (max), because i heard if you take 5 classes the colleges will think that you don’t try hard at school</p>
<p>bestswimmer, seriously, why don’t you talk to your advisor about it? They know your academic ability way better than anyone on here. You’re already at the boarding school, right? Where did you hear that if you only take five classes colleges don’t think you try hard? Most people here aren’t going to be able to tell you if that’s true or not. Talk to your advisor, talk to your college counselor about stuff like that, they’re there to help you form the best plan to get the best out of the academics there you want and help you get to the college you want.</p>
<p>Whether you can handle six classes or not depends on you and the classes. If you take six classes, don’t do well because you have too much work, and get worse grades than if you had five classes, then that’s not going to help you. Do the best you can in what you can handle. Rigorous course load is important, but any courseload at a top boarding school is rigorous.</p>