<p>Btw I don’t know if any of y’all live in NYC But I need 44 credits to graduate…</p>
<p>@devonte: Wow! My school only requires 32 credits.</p>
<p>How can you get 44 credits in 4 years? Assuming an 8 class schedule with 1 credit each that only comes to 32…and at my school the grad requirements are only 25 with the state only requiring 22. :0</p>
<p>Maybe his school counts his credits by semesters?</p>
<p>At our school, you get 1/2 credit every semester for each class you get a C- or higher in. You can take up to 7 classes. You need 26 to graduate - out of a possible 28 (not assuming summer school or middle school credits). Also in order to graduate, you need to take Algebra 1, Geometry, Biology, Chemistry OR Physics, World History, US History, US Government, 2 years of a foreign language, 2 years of health/P.E., 1 year of art or music, and 2 years in vocational or computer courses.</p>
<p>I need 24… with 6 being electives, 4 english, 4 history, 3 math, 3 science, 1 gym,1 health, 1 art, and 1 music or equivalent. Its pretty easy to get having 7 classes a day. I only need 11.5.</p>
<p>22 out of a possible 32.</p>
<p>English (4)</p>
<p>Math (3)</p>
<p>Civics (.5)
U.S. History (1)
History Elective (1.5)</p>
<p>Biological Science (1)
Physical Science (1)
Elective Science (1)</p>
<p>Voc. Ed. (1)</p>
<p>Fine Arts (1)</p>
<p>Microsoft Applications (1)</p>
<p>Gym (1.5)</p>
<p>Health (.75)</p>
<p>Electives (3.75)</p>
<p>Don’t like the way it’s distributed… probably because I’m going to graduate with ~6 art credits and ~6 science credits :P.</p>
<p>Yeah my school counts credits differently…each semester I get one credit for every class I take so in one year I get 14 credits</p>
<p>School just ended for me, so hopefully I’ll be active enough on here to carry out proper conversation, instead of asking questions and reappearing weeks later.</p>
<p>Do you guys have any goals for the summer?</p>
<p>I plan to study lots of bio. As much as I can, really. And are you guys excited or dreading junior year?</p>
<p>As much as I am glad the year is over, I’ll really miss some things. I had an amazing English teacher this year, and I can’t imagine having anyone else, though I guess I’ll have to live with it.</p>
<p>So what schools are you guys looking at? My dream college is University of Miami…I don’t know why but they send me tons of mail 
I probably have a really good chance at getting accepted!</p>
<p>This summer I wanna study for the SATs and I have a job…</p>
<p>Why do some of you have summer assignments for AP classes? My school doesn’t usually have schedules to the students until the middle of august.</p>
<p>We pick out our classes in March and get a tentative schedule around May. And then some changes are made here and there between May and August’s end, but they usually don’t change much.</p>
<p>Also, I’m somewhat excited for junior year, but also kind of sad. Getting the “leaving everyone I love” feeling early :P</p>
<p>@upinflight: This summer I am doing lots of stuff! I’m going to be working two jobs, doing community service, working on an online class, studying for the SAT/PSAT and probably the ACT, and preparing for AP Calc BC and AP Chem in some way. So, I will be super busy! No time to relax!!!</p>
<p>@Devonte: My dream is UNC-Chapel Hill. I love the university and have been there several times in the past two years for different programs and stuff.</p>
<p>@vthorsen: The school that I am transferring to doesn’t do summer assignments for APs (not that I know of). But, I think that the schools just give the work to the students so that they know how to work schedules around. I know at my old school that everything was centered around the APs and senior schedules.</p>
<p>On another note, I have decided not to do AP USH. I heard from several seniors that even though the class meets only once a week, it is a considerable amount of extra work that is required and is not worth the credit (it’s like a core class workload wise but it is only counted as an elective). So, I may self study (if I remember to do so by then) if time permits and my classes aren’t crazy hard or too time consuming.</p>
<p>That makes sense. This is actually the first year that the school has given us any kind of schedule- tentative or otherwise- and I don’t even need one because of dual enrollment.</p>
<p>Hey guys! What do you think about self-studying for AP History (in general) exams? I’m thinking about it, but I already have one extra class next year, plus being vice president and chairs of many organizations, plus SAT and ACT and other AP and SAT subject test studies…!!</p>
<p>I mean if your dedicated then definitely do it, but it might be smart just to talk with one of the history faculty at your school to see what they think. I was originally planning on studying AP European History this summer, but after talking with the chair of the history department at my school he convinced me to self-study both AP World and AP European next summer.</p>
<p>@vthorsen you guys are so lucky our school gives us so much crap for APs over the summer. especially for APUSH. We even have to do booknotes…it’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>Also does anyone know how to become teacher’s pets? Like for next year? I’m not very good at that because I like to uhh put my head down sometimes when I’m tired :)</p>
<p>@megan702 yeah. But my school has about 850 kids pre-k through 12. And only about 150-175 are 9-12 so we only have 2-3 APs… Calc (not sure if its AB or BC), Lit Comp, and maybe Pysch</p>
<p>@megan702 No one likes a teacher’s pet… and I’m pretty sure a teacher can tell when someone is just being overly nice and faking just to get on their good side. If you want a good letter of rec, actually get to know them, do your work, and show an interest in their class.</p>
<p>I don’t have any summer homework, but that probably just means I’m going to forget everything over the next three months. Haha.</p>