<p>I just learned that every class in my school will now have a final exam! 
This is the first time my school has done this.</p>
<p>PE at my school is ridiculous. We were tested on the history of gymnastics and the names of certain moves.</p>
<p>^ That’s really stupid. We only had one week of actual instruction.</p>
<p>Welcome to the real world, nate! You used to be that lucky minority that had a school with lax final testing policies, but I guess not anymore.</p>
<p>Whew, finally reached the end of this post. Hello everyone, I am Noxsing and I’m a addic…nevermind that, in the class of 2014! ;D</p>
<p>I’ve been using cc as a reference for some time and actually created a account a few months back seeking help on AP testing</p>
<p>Lets see, classes:
Freshmen year:
first semester
A-H AcaDeca
A-H Algebra 3-4
A-H Biology
A-H US History
A-Intermediate Strings
A-Facts
A-German1-2
GPA: 4.66
second semester
A-H Enrichment Math
(all same as the last semester)
GPA:4.7</p>
<p>Sophomore year:
first semester
A-AP World History
A-H Aca Deca
A-H English
A-H Physics
A-H Geography
B-H Music Theory-hated this class, i do not want to pursue music
A-H PreCal/Trig
A-German
A-Instrumental Lessons
GPA: 4.7</p>
<p>second semester
A-H Economics
Dropped H Music Theory
Finished H Geography
GPA: 4.66
B-AP World-I do not want to talk about this, the teacher was completely uninformative about her grading process and I have tried to change this. </p>
<p>(rest is same as previous semester)</p>
<p>Cumulative Weighted GPA: 4.6875
Cumulative Unweighted GPA: 3.9375
Class Rank: (was 1, then 4 after 1st B, now i don’t know what after the second B)</p>
<p>Junior Year</p>
<p>First Semester
IB HL Math
IB HL Chemistry
IB HL English
IB HL 20th Century History
IB SL Psychology
IB SL German
AP Government
H Study Hall/Aca Deca Independent Study
TOK, not sure if considered an honors course</p>
<p>Second Semester, exactly the same</p>
<p>Senior Year:
Continuation of HL IB from last year, and free choices</p>
<p>Basically I’m a asian male who wants to get into an Ivy League school, or other schools of similar credentials. My family isn’t the rich affluent asians, rather the opposite with parents who haven’t finished even middle school. I’ve decided to take IB classes to increase the chance of getting into a good school, and I have a lot of competition in my school of over 2500 people, with a class of 700. I’m undecided career-wise, however, anything in law, business, or science I would consider. I love history, math, and reading and I would love to hear how you think my stats are looking so far and to discuss with you loads of other college stuff.
Thanks! (btw this isn’t a “chances” post, just throwing my profile out their, and one fun fact, I play tennis)</p>
<p>^You definitely seem like you’re on the right track for an Ivy. Make sure you keep pursuing tennis, that’s a really good EC (I play tennis too). Your stellar GPA, course rigor, and the fact that you’re a G1 college student will really help your app as well. Just keep up what you’re doing.</p>
<p>@noxsing Your grades are great, but do you do anything else besides grades and tennis?</p>
<p>Asians need to be outstanding to have much of a chance for admission. And lots of Asians have wonderful grades and play tennis. If you have no other EC’s, you better be a nationally ranked tennis player or something, haha.</p>
<p>I’m having sort of an issue right now with regards to my goals, and was wondering if you guys could help. I’ve been taking the most challenging curriculum available at my school, with ECs and stuff focused on science because I wanted to be a biology major and later become a physician.
Now, as I am reevaluating myself, I realize that history has been my true passion since I was little, and I have always been more creative/humanities oriented rather than analytical/science focused. Grated, I still love biology and such, but I am starting to come to terms with the fact that history is something I wan t</p>
<p>(Continued) to pursue. Classical studies in particular interests me, but I have never taken Latin as it is not offered at my school and I would be competing with all those kids who have studied it since freshmen year. Is it too late to start projecting myself as someone who wants to major in the classics? Should I just continue with the sciences and just change my major in college? Oh and sorry for all the spelling mistakes, Im doing this all on my crappy phone and Im too lazy to go fix them all.</p>
<p>@Nate</p>
<p>Sorry! I knew you lived in NC (Just from being on the form! Not stalking) I just wasn’t thinking! Yeah I go to NC a ton too, I was up in Raleigh twice this past season.</p>
<p>Yeah, I love tennis, but I wouldn’t have it as your main EC unless you’re state or nationally-ranked. Colleges can’t throw a rock without hitting a tennis player. =p</p>
<p>I find it so weird, because tennis is really an obscure sport here where I live whereas sports like football, basketball, wrestling, and baseball are all fairly popular here. Yet on this site, everybody and their grandmother seems to be a state-ranked tennis player, yet it’s almost impossible to find a football player, basketball player, etc. on this site.</p>
<p>Hey guys… so next year, I’m planning on taking APUSH, AP English 11, and AP Chem.</p>
<p>what do you all think about self studying these APs in addition to taking those 3 I listed above: calc, microeconomics, macroeconomics, stat</p>
<p>do you think it’s possible for me to get 5s on all of them? or would i just be committing academic suicide lol</p>
<p>@Rob1995
I find that weird, too. The only explanation I could come up with is that running sports require more physical fitness than games like tennis, badminton, etc., which are more hand-eye coordination/finesse? Despite all the scholar-athletes and whatnot, smarter kids are usually less prone to play hardcore contact sports (football, for example). They’re brainier instead of brawnier, and don’t have the same build as athletes who work out 3-5 times a week. One reason is that they don’t have time, since studying/EC’s consume so much of their lives. But sometimes I think that’s just an excuse… I hate to propagate the “skinny nerd” stereotype, but it’s grounded in truth, IMHO.</p>
<p>@grammer: I’m really not looking forward to this. Although I am pretty glad I dropped Physics now. There is a new teacher who has never done it before that will be teaching it next year.
Would the yearlong AP classes have midterms? Or would we just take the AP exam at the end of the year? </p>
<p>@atp: Haha, it’s cool. Raleigh is a cool place even though I always spend my time at Chapel Hill when I am on that side of the state. </p>
<p>@helang: Yeah, I think it is possible. Just start reviewing HARD a month before each exam. I will be taking 4 AP’s next year, all of them being pure memorization exams :). Fun stuff…</p>
<p>@rob & @catch23: I play football and run track :D. I guess I stick out on this site.</p>
<p>@catch23 While I think it is true that tennis is an easier sport to grasp onto and really anyone can get into it, to say that it doesn’t require as much physical fitness as other sports is totally false. If you are serious about tennis and actually play tournaments and want to play in college, it requires a ton of work and is a huge time commitment. Sure if you’re just playing at the high school level to have another EC on your app, it’s the chillest sport out there - hell, my high school tennis team doesn’t run any farther than a short jog to the fence and back. But I’m putting in 20+ hours a week this summer and going to the gym a few times a week because I actually care to develop my game.</p>
<p>tl;dr: It’s really what you put into it. It could be an easy sport, or you could train harder than contact-sport athletes.</p>
<p>nate: At my school, almost all AP classes have a midterm but either no final (due to the AP test) or a blowoff project of sorts. I’d assume that it’d be the same at your school unless the administration is draconian.</p>
<p>@rob & catch23; my school tends to be mixed sports wise…but most of the smart kids either run cross country or track, play basketball and football, or swim… I find that most of the “nerds” are also the “jocks” although not always.</p>
<p>Those of you who are taking AP chem next year - do you have summer homework?</p>
<p>^ Nope! In fact, I have no summer homework. Yippee!</p>