<p>^ Yes, drop Art and save your sanity.</p>
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<p>I agree, most students in my school take AP Art Senior year.</p>
<p>I am actually freaking out right now. AP Art history was my first elective choice and although the schedules my school has posted are “tentative” everyone says the electives aren’t really going to change. If I don’t get that class, my GPA is gonna lower so much u_u</p>
<p>I think you’ll be fine. I learned that my AP Chemistry class may not be offered, but we’ll see on the first day of school. lol</p>
<p>I’ll only be 17 when I start college, but when you turn 18 you are a legal adult and most people are 18 before they finish their freshman year.</p>
<p>Penguin, you sure Caltech will accept an early high school grad?</p>
<p>The important classes of my upcoming junior year are:</p>
<p>AP Junior English
AP Calculus AB
AP Biology (I will have to take AP Chem as a senior since it was cancelled this year)
AP Spanish (skipping 4)
Normal US history
Principles of Marketing
et cetera…
I wanted to take AP Euro as a junior and APUSH as a senior, but with football and track I don’t think I could handle 5 APs let alone 4, so I will have 3 free periods spread throughout the year. Is that excessive? I need them though because I need to get my homework done and football goes very late at my school. </p>
<p>Also, does anyone know how competitive it will be to get into HYPSM from high school class of '14? Are there a ton of amazing students (i think i’m one) in our class?</p>
<p>What has everyone been doing over the summer?</p>
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<p>I believe it will be the same as this year, but I believe if the U.S. economy continues to stay the same or weaken, as time goes by it becomes more competitive because colleges receive less funding. I’m planning to apply to a lot of Ivies due to them doing full-need tuition for families of lower income. I’m planning to also apply to safety schools in the state of Georgia.</p>
<p>Also, I believe there are a lot of “amazing” students in our class just from reading their schedules for next school year. Some people are 4 APs and self studying for like 3 more. I can’t self study for APs because I’m to lazy to study, I barely study for classes taught at my school let alone teaching myself the whole time. The best attributes to colleges for me, in my opinion, is being African-American and being quite intelligent, according to others, for my race.</p>
<p>How is everyone’s summer going? I recently got back from the VA Governor’s Latin Academy, and it was really fun! I met a ton of awesome, intelligent people. Aside from the academy, I’ve been studying for the SAT and USABO, surfing the internet, and reading How to be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport (it’s pretty good so far). </p>
<p>And another topic: Are any of you religious? I’ve been thinking about religion a lot lately. Since my decision to become an atheist (or an agnostic atheist, if you want to get technical), I’ve been struggling to figure out how to break the news to my hyper-religious, Mormon parents. They continue to force me to go to church and related activities every week, and it’s getting really awful. I’ve been assigned to give a talk in front of the entire congregation on Sunday. I now have two options: (1) Lie to the whole church and give a talk on some thing I don’t helieve in, or (2) Tell my parents I don’t believe and experience intense social and familial humiliation. I’m leaning toward option (2), but I’m having trouble figuring out how to tell them. Thoughts?</p>
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<p>yeah they will. </p>
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<p>even if the talk was about something you generally believed in or agreed with there are many good reasons to not want to give it.</p>
<p>not everyone who is not an atheist cares for the religion their parents try to force on them. you could just be one of those resistant kids with 0 interest in anything that has to do with church. so i’m not sure the decision has to come down to reveal i’m an atheist or give the speech.</p>
<p>maybe there is an expectation of you, since you’ve done similar thing before though. i mean, the main thing is to me: i would hope you don’t want to give this talk for more reasons than not believing in the words you have to say. that’s kind of a lame reason by itself i think. if it’s painless to you in every other way, and very short, then probably complying sounds like a good idea.</p>
<p>if you’re missing doing something else you really want to do, or from sleeping in when you’re tired, or if it’s going to be a very hot and miserable day at the church, then maybe resist.</p>
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<p>if you want them to know you’re roughly an atheist for the purpose of hopefully being relieved from religious obligations and for honesty, then maybe write your mom a note or something.</p>
<p>@Studio My summer is good so far, nothing exciting though lol. I’m Episcopalian, but I don’t really take it seriously. My parents kind of force me to go to church, so I really can’t do anything about that unless I turn legal age and move out lol. But as long as I live under their roof, their rules. When I move out, I don’t plan on going to church anymore, the whole idea never really stuck out to me. The only thing I love is the people in my church, they’re so nice.</p>
<p>@enfield: Of course there are other reasons. I hate going to church, I don’t want to actually write the speech, etc. etc. But not wanting to give a 3-5 minute speech on something completely antithetical to one’s views is a perfectly valid and compelling criterion! I’m not really sure how you don’t see that. Anyway, yes, it’s expected of me. But I think I’ll just tell them I’m not going to do it and see what happens.</p>
<p>Caltech definitely accepts early HS kids, as does Harvard and MIT. Yale doesn’t though.</p>
<p>I was tempted to apply early but I decided to try and improve my app.</p>
<p>A junior at my high school applied a year early and graduated with the class of 2012. He got into both Harvard and Stanford. He chose Harvard and he’s a legitimate genius. When he went to a Stanford math camp, the professor didn’t know how to teach one concept so he did it for her, lol. He also has taught courses up at the local liberal arts college and he’s not even 18 yet.</p>
<p>Is anybody interested in doing Questbridge for juniors in February?</p>
<p>I am not going to apply early. I already had to skip a grade to save money, I don’t want to deprive myself of senior year. I am already excited to make a bucket list of stuff I want to do during senior year, since junior year is going to kill me almost (self studying 8 APs and taking 11 lol-that plus the SAT, PSAT, SAT II math and USH, ECs, science bowl, etcetcetc)</p>
<p>I am going to use the time I have to work hard on my app and just apply during senior year.</p>
<p>And lol I’m nowhere near that smart. I was going to apply for PROMYS but I realized that I couldn’t even answer one of the questions that they asked LOL. So much for my 800 on SAT math practice sections. xD</p>
<p>I’d probably score in the bottom 10th percentile if I even tried the AIME. /failure at life</p>
<p>So where is everyone applying to? I asked people in my school and they said they won’t think about it until mid-senior year, when apps are due. I think this might be weird, but I have already started to prepare and think about my essays and stuff. o____O</p>
<p>What is Questbridge?</p>
<p>Colleges I’m looking at are: NYU, Northwestern and USC. Wash U is nice.</p>
<p>^ Those are some cool colleges. I’m looking at: University of the Science, Wake Forest, UMBC, Virginia Tech, UC State, and John Hopkins.</p>
<p>I’m applying to three reach schools: Harvard, Stanford (early action because I’m obsessed with their supplement and I’m too impatient to apply RD lol), and MIT</p>
<p>I’m also applying to Vanderbilt, Rice, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, and Macaulay Honors College @ a CUNY.</p>
<p>My safety school is my state college because even if I applied there right now now I would be accepted with open arms so easily lolol</p>
<p>I am just going to work hard so that I can get into Stanford SCEA. If I get in, then I won’t have to spend a bajillion dollars applying to those other colleges. </p>
<p>I want to go to Stanford because my cousin is going there, it’s closer to my house than those other colleges (with the exception of the state university and Rice lol), it’s in CA, Stanford’s campus is amazing, I loved the professor’s HumBio lectures on youtube, the environment is awesome from what I’ve heard on the CC, etc.</p>
<p>I really need to start reading a ton so that I’ll be prepared for the SAT. -____-</p>