<p>My school is now doing course registration. Here is the schedule that I am planning on:</p>
<p>Honors/AP Calculus AB
Honors/AP Environmental Science
Honors English 3
Honors US History
Health Sciences 2
Spanish 2</p>
<p>@evanb1996: Nice! Sounds like a pretty good schedule. We don’t register until April 2nd.</p>
<p>But here’s what I plan on taking.</p>
<p>Honors/AP Biology
Honors/AP US History
Honors English 3
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors Physics
Honors Spanish 4</p>
<p>These classes might kill me. It will be a hard transition going from 6 honors and 2 normal classes to 2 AP’s and 6 Honors.</p>
<p>@chenoa: I hope so and they’re separating the individual and group categories. Though, there’s this group of kids that somehow got an extension even though I don’t think that’s fair. Either way the deadline already passed and the judging started a while ago so I don’t think that will actually give them a lot of time to finish.</p>
<p>Nate, those classes might kill you?! Honors classes must be really difficult at your school. Honors classes have never been an issue at my school; it’s the APs that are hellish. Which is why I’m going to implode violently next year, as I’m taking 5.</p>
<p>Yes they are. Since we offer minimal AP’s the teachers make the honors pretty difficult. Since we don’t have AP Chem or AP Physics I have to take Honors Physics and Honors Chem 2 instead. I talked to the teacher and he said they are college preparatory class.
Also AP Bio and AP US require tons of studying and hard work to succeed.</p>
<p>And the school I plan on going to will not require me to take a lot of AP’s. People from my school have gotten into Chapel Hill with only taking 4 AP’s and minimal EC’s.</p>
<p>I know how that feels Studious. I’m also (hopefully) taking 5 in school with an additional 4 self-studied :O.</p>
<p>@Quacoh: You’re self-studying 4 AP’s on top of 5 in school? Geee, where do you want to go an Ivy?</p>
<p>I wish, my ECs are pretty sub-par for an Ivy, I just enjoy a challenge. Really, I don’t deserve too much credit, I haven’t even done it yet:p</p>
<p>You make it sound like a bad thing! An ivy?? Haha well my sights are set on brown. Hopefully my 13 aps, 4.0, and laundry list of ecs will get me in, or I killed myself for 4 years for nothing.</p>
<p>What do you guys consider sub par extra curriculars?? At my school everyone is involved in everything, so it Doesn’t seem weird to me that I’m on two sports teams, one varsity, in art club, key club, student government, and write for the paper. Next year I plan to join two more clubs and take officer positions in a few. We have such a selection here that there’s just tons that people are interested in doing!</p>
<p>Subpar ECs, to me, are those that are scattered and unimpressive. If you have an unfocused list of clubs and competitions, it won’t do you very much good. But if you’ve focused your time on a few (3-5 or so) ECs that show dedication, passion, and ability, you’ll be set for most schools (EC-wise). National-level recognition or competitions are always nice, but even regional accomplishments can be very impressive. A four year regional champ in debate will probably be looked on more favorably than a one-time national competitor.</p>
<p>Bottom line: Try to have a general theme that pervades your ECs, and do as well in those ECs as you can.</p>
<p>I think the quality of ECs are pretty much based on what you do with the EC, not so much the EC. Even if it’s something silly sounding, if you put in time and dedication into it, it’s a good EC. Say for example, a Video Game Club. Seems kind of silly and not something you’d put on an app. But what if you were the one who started the club? What if you became president of the club after being in it for four years? What if you spend time fundraising for the club, or setting up tournaments? That shows dedication, even if it seems kind of unimpressive. I think the President and Founder of the Video Game Club for four years would look better on an app than some guy who throws in two or three academic/math/science sounding ECs his junior year just because he or she thinks it looks pretty to admission officers.</p>
<p>Very true very true. My least favorite people are the ones that sign up for a club or activity and never show up for the meetings or complain about having to volunteer/spend extra time on a project. If you honestly dont want to be in a club, why would you join??</p>
<p>Hey, I want to self study calculus BC while taking AB so I was wondering if i could use this book to study for both because my school uses this on for AB.</p>
<p>Finney, Ross L., Franklin D. Demana, Bert K. Waits, and Daniel Kennedy. Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic: AP Edition. Boston: Pearson Prentice Hall.</p>
<p>Spring break!! Finally 
managed to maintain my 4.0 through winter term as well.</p>
<p>ugh you guys scare me my EC’s consist of:</p>
<p>6 months Karate
6 months Ballet and Flamenco dance</p>
<p>but I travel in an RV with my family so you can see why my EC’s are limited. Like right now we are living 20 miles from the nearest walmart! Translation in the middle of nowhere. We are going cross country in 2 months so I do not have the options of EC’s. I hope colleges will understand :(</p>
<p>We currently have 20 people signed up for AP Biology at my school, I hope no one drops out. I am really looking forward to the class.</p>
<p>Studious- a one-time national debater DOES look better than a 4-time regional one. Unless I’m mistaken, doesn’t it go</p>
<p>Local-Regional-State-National-International</p>
<p>for most BIG extracurricular competitions?
If you could go to National’s once, of course you could go to regional’s four years in a row, that is, if you chose to stick with it. But going to regional’s four years in a row doesn’t mean you can go to national’s even once.</p>
<p>Catch, I said four-time regional champion. If I’m not mistaken, that means one competed at states four times at well. </p>
<p>A one-time national <em>competitor</em> is not as impressive, in my opinion. The point was not that they went to states three times and nationals once, it was that they went to nationals once, and that’s it. Also, they were only a competitor, so they didn’t receive any award or anything at nat’ls. I think the four-year win-streak shows dedication and would impress any admissions officer. National debate would be impressive as well, but if that’s all they did (and didn’t place), it wouldn’t look as good, in my opinion.</p>
<p>My ECs suck, I founded one club “the Electronic Gaming Club” that only has me and 4 other people lol. </p>
<p>Most my time now is spent programming…but I don’t know how I would put that on an application since it is not a club or any sorts.</p>