Getting into a class (Macro Economics) that only 11th graders are allowed to take.

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Maybe they don’t anticipate an empty seat.

To,the OP…you should be able to explain why this is such a valuable course for you to take. And please don’t use th reason that it will enable you to take AP courses.

Also, you should be able to explain why this course is,ever so much more valuable than the options you HAVE as an 10th grader.

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I think that it would be good to take macro and accounting in HS just to see what you think about them. They are also easy “fluffy” classes. Generally, they are “survey” classes which basically brush the surface and get you used to the vocabulary used in those subjects. Colleges will know this, BTW, when they view the rigor of your transcripts and will compare the fluffy classes with the more rigorous classes of Engl, Calc, US Hist.

Your options:

  1. “Self study” for AP Macro. Buy and AP Macro review book, study it, take the AP test in Macro in May. Then you will have similar macro knowledge that the class has. You would have to pay for the AP Macro test with College Board and you would have to buy an AP Macro review book.
  2. HS probably did the cutoff because there were too many kids who wanted to take it compared with the seats available. So find out who is teaching the class for next year. Ask them that you would love to be included if the class does not fill up or if kids drop out of the class. Then in the beg of next year, 1st day of class, show up to see if it wasn’t full to see if you could add it. If full, ask again if you could be added if someone drops the class. Periodically check to see if any kids have dropped the class and to see if you can be added until the “drop deadline” for your school.(This would occur in the fall of next year).
  3. Take stats in 10th and macro in 11th
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The above advice (post 21, #2) would work fine in a college setting, but high school teachers don’t have the flexibility to waive rules that way. If the school has determined that the class is not for sophomores, the teacher can’t decide on his own to allow one in–and why would he care to try? Besides, OP can’t just waltz in to a classroom on the first day of school–he’ll have a set schedule by then and will probably have that time slot filled with something else. The best advice OP has been given is to let it go.