<p>Ah, I didn’t know that students weren’t required to take more than one final on any day, and now that I think about it (despite the annoyance of having finals looming overhead during break), it would be nice to have a restful time to study for them. My current high school is actually set up in that manner, so it wouldn’t be significantly different. The thesis sounds intimidating, but I think it is also an interesting challenge. I found that writing the extended essay (I’m in the IB program) was easier than I had thought it would be, and that I learned quite a bit on the way. The extended essay wasn’t really comparable to a senior thesis (in length nor depth), but it was still reasonably longer than any paper I had previously written. </p>
<p>Thank you again for such detailed answers! I’m confident that I can now make an informed decision about where I will spend my next four years.</p>