6 AP Classes Junior Year. Any tips or advice for these classes?

MYOS1634
Sun, 10 Apr 2016 21:01:27 +0000

But WHY do you want to do that ? Do you realize that going to bed at midnight a, or 2, or waking up at 4 is UNHEALTHY and counterproductive in the long run, that it puts your physical and mental health at risk, and won’t help with getting into college? What warped idea of top colleges do you have ?
As teenagers, you need to plan for 9 hours of sleep a night. Taking six AP 's proves nothing (except perhaps 'something’s nebulous to other high school kids of the same mindset) and while I realize that, for adolescents, peer group is key in self definition, it shouldn’t run counter to common sense and healthy behavior.
Please understand that college’s will *not * reward you for this. They will * not * be impressed. They will think something on the spectrum of insane to hubris. Some readers will penalize you for it because it’s unhealthy and it puts you at higher risk while in college. Have you heard of Stanford 's " it’s not a game where who has the most APs wins "?
Don’t be one of those kids posting senior year ’ why did I sacrifice sleep and things I wanted to do, when I didn’t get into any of the colleges I wanted ? Whereas that other kid ranked 27 did ? "