<p>Yay, what a great thread! My schedule this year is…</p>
<p>Accelerated English 2 (the same thing as Honors, just called something different)
Accelrated Math Analysis (basically, Acc. Precalc…I took Algebra II in 8th grade)
Accelrated Spanish 3
Music Theory
Orchestra
Gym
AP European History (the only AP we can take as sophomores)
Accelrated Chemistry</p>
<p>Next year, I’ll have</p>
<p>AP English Lang&Comp
AP Calc BC
AP US History
AP Psych
Orchestra
Accelerated Spanish 4 (we can’t take AP till senior year! grr…)
Accelerated Physics (again, no AP till senior year)
Gym</p>
<p>I want to go into education, and my number one reach school is Vanderbilt, but I know it’ll be a long shot. I’m trying my best, though! </p>
<p>I only have 6 more weeks of school…I can’t wait for summer!</p>
<p>I’m so glad that my teacher switched the debate to next Tuesday. I need time to research “deeper material” according to her, which I don’t have time for due to placement tests and driver’s ed. My life is so hectic now! </p>
<p>Hey guys, any tips on starting a debate team? A friend and I have entertained the idea for a while, and it seems like it’s becoming reality. Just throw your two cents my way if you can.</p>
<p>Maybe you could write a proposal of some sort for the school? And get a teacher to sponsor? Those are usually good steps toward creating a team.</p>
<p>@GrammerNazi: The best thing you can do would be to get a teacher in one the idea. Talk to a teacher that’s into debating and ask him/her for some support in starting a debate team.</p>
<p>I “created” my school’s first Robotics Club. All I had to do was throw a few ideas at my physics teacher, and he liked the idea so much that he pretty much did the rest of the work. He talked to the principal, and we will be setting up over the summer. :)</p>
<p>Oh, I already have a handle on getting a teacher sponsor and getting a proposal mocked up. That’s the really basic stuff ;)</p>
<p>I actually sent a draft of the proposal to a prospective sponsor today, so hopefully that pans out. I just wanna know if there’s anyone who’s experienced in debate that would like to throw a few pointers my way when it comes to structuring the team, practices and the like.</p>
<p>So guys, I just sent 4 emails that could change my college course! To 4 different college coaches they wooshed away, asking them to come watch me play…hopefully the odds will ever be in my favor!!</p>
<p>Do you guys think doing yearbook or ASB or Newspaper, all of which are classes in my school will hurt me? Since in my school, these are considered electives and occupy a class period and they’re not clubs or extracurricular activities…</p>
<p>So for next year (junior year) i was signing up for classes and I was thinking of doing one of those (prob either yearbook or ASB) so that means I’d have to give up a class and I’d probably give up AP Statistics or Honors Physics … do you guys think this can hurt me because it doesn’t give my sched the same rigor as if I’d take ap/hnrs class instead.</p>
<p>Oh and my other classes include AP USH AP Eng Lit AP Chemistry Pre Calculus Honors Physics Honors/AP Stats (I’m gonna drop one of them in place for yearbook or ASB)</p>
<p>On another note, I took placement tests at NCSSM today. I felt I did really well on the math and physical science tests and terrible on the chemistry test. I think most of the chemistry material came from AP Chemistry, which most of the people have not taken. I can just play the waiting game until placements come out in two weeks. Nothing much to do besides wait.</p>
<p>how do you guys think my schedule looks for next year?</p>
<p>AP English Lang & Comp
AP Physics B
APUSH
IBSL Economics
Algebra 2
Russian I(I know its weird, but I started with Spanish HATED IT so im trying Russian)
Newspaper</p>
<p>I plan to be a Journalism or International Relations major</p>