<p>For those of us that have never made a B. We don’t plan on it, in high school at least. I work way too hard to let one stupid teacher ruin this personal achievement for me.</p>
<p>There’s AP government…?
My school doesn’t offer it :(</p>
<p>Hello everyone, do you think it would be a smart move to take summer classes?
I have applied to a very prestigious summer program, but if i’m admitted, I need a back up plan. I am thinking about these courses over the summer:</p>
<p>Honors US History
Honors Pre Calc
Honors Anatomy and Physiology
SAT Prep</p>
<p>If I was to take US History or Pre Calc, then I would be way ahead of everyone in my class. But I still want to have some-what of a summer. What do you think I should do?</p>
<p>@quidditchcat: Many schools don’t offer it. The people in my school have been forced to take it online. But everyone I have talked to loves the class.</p>
<p>^ Take precalc so that you can take calculus next year. Also, it helps with some SAT math problems and extracurricular math competitions.</p>
<p>^ Sounds good, thanks! But my school doesn’t offer a math past AP Calculus AB. Well there is online AP Calculus BC, what do you recommend I do?</p>
<p>Seeking ECU Experts! </p>
<p>Looking to Transfer to ECU in the Fall of 2012.
I would be transferring from a small private college in Upstate New York.
Just wondering what my chances would be to being accepted to ECU. </p>
<p>Nazareth College
Current College GPA: 2.6
(I received all A’s and B’s, 1 C and 1 D-) However I am trying very hard this semester to get as close to a 4.0 I can!
Goal for GPA for 2011-2012 year: 3.4+
I would be transferring with over 50+ credits </p>
<p>High School (Also in Upstate NY)
GPA: 3.4 (B+)
ACT: 25
I took all advanced courses in my High School as well and was in an extremely advanced Medical Program that only selected 5 students to attend</p>
<p>Thank you all for your help!</p>
<p>I’d take online BC. But it depends on your skill level.</p>
<p>^ You won’t find any of those “experts” here. We’re sophomores in high school.</p>
<p>Do you guys think it would be wise to take physics and history over the summer? In order to get the IB diploma I have to take classes in every category, and this includes a social studies category. My school offers History and Business as choices for this category, but Virginia requires 4 history credits to graduate high school,and I absolutely despise history classes in school. I want to take business for that category, but I would have to take history classes online…</p>
<p>Virginia also requires 3 different sciences throughout high school, and so far I have Bio from freshman year and Chem from sophomore year. I want to take Bio HL in junior and senior years, but this leaves no room for physics (or another science.)</p>
<p>My tentative schedule for next year:</p>
<p>IB English HL
IB Math HL 2
IB Art HL
IB Bio SL (will be HL senior year)
IB Business/History SL
IB Spanish SL
IB TOK (after school)
Orchestra</p>
<p>It’s possible for me to take physics in senior year because I’ll be done with HL math, but I’d rather take multivariable calculus.</p>
<p>Hmm i’m not sure about the whole IB curriculum, but it sounds to me that taking a physics class junior and senior year would be most beneficial. If there is a IB Physics class then I would definitely take a summer class in order to prepare for it. If you are wanting to take a regular or honors physics class then you don’t need to worry about it.</p>
<p>As for history, it is very important that you take all of your history credits. If you plan on taking IB History then I would take something over the summer. I find it very beneficial when I have previous experience in a class that is very difficult.</p>
<p>hey globalwolf,</p>
<p>i’m gonna take math HL next year as a junior… what’s your opinion on the class?</p>
<p>The reason I want to take Physics and History over the summer is to fulfill the credit requirements for graduating, but I don’t want to take them for IB. Summer classes seem like they would take up a whole lot of time though, I’m not sure if it’s worth it or if I should just try to suffer through 2 years of IB history.</p>
<p>should i do ap b physics or ap c if i have no physics since middle school? the ap b teacher at my school apparently doesn’t teach very well so everyone fails… but ap c the teacher is really good but the content is difficult… sigh. should i even take physics in high school? </p>
<p>anyways another thing im annoyed by is my counselor says my schedule may be too stressful for me next year…</p>
<p>AP Japanese (joke class since I already know the language)
BC Calc
AP Bio
English Honors (if I don’t get in, I’ll take journalism and join the school newspaper)
APUSH
AP Statistics
Maybe AP Chem, but if I take it and don’t do well 1st quarter I will switch out, have a prep, and TA</p>
<p>Is this really THAT stressful?</p>
<p>if i do that my senior year would look like this:
AP English
Some kind of physics (or if I didn’t take AP Chem, then AP Chem)
AP Econ and then AP Psych (both count for history, and are semester classes)
APES
Possibly college math
2 Preps -> probably will TA or something</p>
<p>So… basically if I don’t take either AP Chem or some kind of physics next year in tandem with AP Bio, then I’ll want to take 3 AP Sciences senior year which would be even MORE stressful than 2 both years. BTW I feel obligated to take all the AP sciences possible since I want to major in something like molecular bio and become a doctor after that. </p>
<p><em>RANT - DO NOT READ IF YOU HATE COMPLAINERS</em>
I hate how my school doesn’t let us take APs from freshman year… just makes the stress of junior/senior years worse… and i go to a school where there have been a ton of suicides because of the stress. If we could take APs from freshman year, it would be more spread out and be less stressful.</p>
<p>@quiddatchcat: In my opinion that seems like a pretty stressful schedule. But you might be able to handle it pretty well. All people are different when it comes to how many AP’s they can handle. For me if I take over 4 then I am asking for a terrible school year.</p>
<p>Regarding physics, you definitely need to take AP Physics B. This course will prepare you the best for college physics. Even if it is hard there is tons of books and websites out there that are incredibly helpful. The only reason you should take AP Physics C is if you are trying to be a Engineer. I really do not think you need to take all of the AP science classes your school has to offer. Focus on what you are the best at and go from there. And my school is the same way! I cant AP until junior year.</p>
<p>I took the AMC 10A today. I got a 94.5. I wasn’t expecting it to be so hard.</p>
<p>@Studious</p>
<p>I’m guessing your teacher/proctor graded it? I’ll have to ask my teacher is she did that. An amusing story about that is my teacher ordered tests for about 20 people, but mistakenly ordered all AMC 10s thinking anyone could take them. So only about a fourth of the participant’s scores counted, and everyone else took a placebo.</p>
<p>We got the answer booklets, so I was able to calculate my score. It’s pretty decent considering I only prepared for about two weeks. How did you do?</p>
<p>I’ll let you know once I get a final grade, as I never received my answer packet. I’d say I was fairly confident on ~10, and process of elimination/educated guessed on 7 more. So I’m anticipating anywhere from high 50s to low 70s depending on how lucky I was today. I though it was extremely tough, I’m decent at math, but that was way beyond my skill level. I prepped for all of two days when I opened my AoPS books, but procrastination eventually overtook me and I never got past the first few chapters. Right now I’m hoping for school winner, but that’s wishful thinking at best.</p>