<p>Finally back… it’s been too long.</p>
<p>How has everyone been?</p>
<p>Does anyone have a specific school they want to go to yet? o.o</p>
<p>I just took my drivers test about 2 months ago and needless to say, my hands were clammy for nothing (I really don’t like clammy hands!)
& by the way, I’m pretty much sure that I want to attend Reed College!! :-D</p>
<p>I’m taking</p>
<p>AP Chem - Double Period
AP Physics C
AP BC Calc
AP Stat
AP Lang
AP World
AP Stat</p>
<p>Hey everyone! I’m currently doing the Summer@Brown program, and it’s been great! I visited Boston yesterday and had the chance to tour Harvard and MIT with a friend. Both campuses are really great. Brown is awesome as well. Hope you’re all having good summers!</p>
<p>Back from Wesleyan :). Now I have one week to cram work for Lang & Comp, AP Chem, APUSH, and pre-calc x_x. Technically I have two or three weeks, but band camp starts next Monday, which is from 9:00-3:30 every day, and I’m not going to want to do anything once I get home, haha.</p>
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<p>Finally got my schedule for the upcoming year! I’m pretty satisfied with the teachers I have, it’s just to crazy to think how close school is (junior year at that).</p>
<p>I got a invitation for that Summer@Brown thing too. Just didn’t actually look into it. Hope you had fun</p>
<p>They do not tell us what our schedule is until the first day of school which is a bummer, but all my electives are Law and social services like psych and child devolpement.</p>
<p>schedule for next year:</p>
<p>AP US history
AP eng lang
AP chem
AP physics B
AP calc AB
AP comp sci
IB TOK
IB french 11</p>
<p>I’m going to try to take the AP calculus BC self-study instead of the AB. Any suggestions?
I don’t know much about physics yet but is there any chance for me to get a 5 in physics C by self-study?</p>
<p>No, that would be extremely difficult. Physics C is calculus based and unless you’re a genius, I can’t see how you could self study BC and Physics C at the same time.</p>
<p>I had a wonderful day today!
2nd day of the school year, loving being a junior so far.</p>
<p>I can’t believe how easy everything is. SAT prep has been mild- I’m taking the SAT & the PSAT this October, and I pretty much feel prepared. I’m also taking 4 SAT Subject Tests between now and May - and I haven’t prepared at all! 
I really need to get on that. </p>
<p>As for my schedule…Let’s see, j’adore my AP Lang class and thoroughly enjoy my math class (finally a professor with a sense of humor!). My French class is more of the same, comme ci comme ca. I’ll never become fluent unless I study the language on my own time.
My AP US History class is incredibly chill…(although this isn’t necessarily a good thing; I purportedly got the “easy” teacher. Any advice for APUSH from those who’ve taken it?)</p>
<p>Then again, my extracurricular activities haven’t started up yet. </p>
<p>Everything will snowball in time, hahaha.</p>
<p>My D will be a Junior this fall. She is contemplating between AP chem and AP bio. Which one will be better if she has to take SAT II? She has taken biology and chemistry as a freshman and Physics as sophomere.</p>
<p>^ This is really your daughters decision, I’m taking both next year, because I couldn’t decided between AP Biology or AP Chemistry. Ask your daughter which class, biology or chemistry, did she have the most fun in, or learned a lot in.</p>
<p>@oncmom: I know one of my friends who’s taking both AP Bio and AP Chem, which “should” be a tad more manageable with the less-intensive AP Bio format. </p>
<p>But to actually answer your question, I took Advanced Biology in 9th grade (using the Holt-Mcdougal textbook) and took SAT II Biology E in October the following year with not too much study, just some practice tests. I ended up scoring 770, probably because I don’t like biology very much and didn’t try as hard. I think your daughter will do OK (But of course, this could vary). Don’t know how difficult SAT II Chem is though.</p>
<p>I hated biology when I took it :/, my worst subject by far. Am going to hate chemistry this year I bet as well.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of those who replied. The problem is that she has signed up to take Anatomy, Pathology and Biomedical research at a local university and she is also taking AP statistics, Ap language, Debate from her school and she can take only one more class from her school. Hence , she has to choose betwen AP bio and AP chem for her junior year and consider the other for her senior year. She is interested in straight med programs and wondering which one would be better if she is going for ED for some of those programs?</p>
<p>^ Honestly I don’t think it will matter much. Personally I would go with biology, but there would be nothing wrong with taking chemistry. Just ask her to go for whatever she has a greater interest in. :)</p>
<p>I took AP bio this past year and took the subject test for it. I got an 800 after reviewing for an hour the night before the test and I’m not that great at bio. At my school, it was easier to take AP bio my sophomore year before I got more AP classes because bio often assigns a lot more homework than chem. It depends on which she thinks she’ll do better on; it probably does not matter that much at this point.</p>
<p>Don’t let the previous posters mislead you: an 800 in biology tends to be 97th-99th percentile, so their assertions that it’s a pretty simple test that’s easy to score well on may not hold for your daughter. I believe the SAT II Chemistry test actually has a slightly more generous curve. As for which class she should take, it really depends on the person. If she’s more mathy and enjoys more difficult concepts, chemistry might be for her. But if she’s more interested in life systems and a more memorization-based class, she would probably prefer biology. For most people, AP Biology will be easier regardless. However, if she feels like she can handle AP Chem during her junior year, l see no problem with her taking it.</p>