Going into chemistry. Math HL or English HL??

lucky2010
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:21:42 +0000

See, do whichever least bores you as the HL. I don’t figure any colleges are gonna ever at any point read your application “Hmmm Math HL instead of English HL! (or vice versa) DENIED!” Don’t sweat the little things in this, either way you’re taking an advanced class.

Now for me, I’m taking Math SL and English HL. If it were up to me I’d switch the two (but if it were really up to me I’d switch History HL for Math SL). English HL for me is kinda easy, I’ve read the books, wrote my essays, did awesome on the oral, and am just waiting for the test. But Math SL seems to be going so freakin’ slow. I’m a math person so that’s probably why, I just get bored and I feel like AP Calculus was harder. But the IB courses are very rigid at my school, the only leeway we get is in how high spanish (Spanish HL-A or Spanish HL-B, woo…big diff, and I didn’t get to choose that either this year). Math SL is the highest they offer and I’m bored half the time (you get to choose math too, but it’s Math SL or Math Models). English HL is a lot of fun, I really like my teacher so that might differ, but still it’s not terribly hard. Just the essays (only 2 and they’re easy), readings, analysis of poems (which isn’t even that big a deal) and shorts, and a random oral. All is doable. Oh and the test.

So I say whichever you’d be less bored in because taking an HL requires more attention. It’s why I hate HL history because history bored me and I can’t find interest in it now to make myself study or bother. English HL is fine because I like reading and analysis but I really like math.