<p>Hmm maybe a local library or hospital. This year am doing volunteering for the American Heart Association.</p>
<p>All right guys, so how is junior year faring for all of us? (as our college counselor says, it’s the MOST IMPORTANT YEAR! Gasp!)</p>
<p>My classes are boring. Not the subject matter, but the people in them. Very few of my friends are taking honors classes this year, and even fewer take AP, so I have at most 5 friends in one class, with most of my classes hitting 2-3, none whom I’m close with.</p>
<p>The work’s fine, I guess. I’m not having much difficulty so far, except in Chem because I don’t really understand the “really good AP style” (teacher quote) word problems on molarity.</p>
<p>Just comprehended the fact that PSATs are in 1 month (didn’t realize that that’s not a large amount of time), and I still need to bring my math score up 100 points, so I’m going to go through a math section every day until my BB is used up.</p>
<p>How about you, Jess?</p>
<p>I’m not doing the SATs until February or March because I’m doing dual enrollment at Clayton State or Georgia State next year, so I have take either the SAT or ACT before April 1st. I’ve gotten admission events from Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, etc. Yale admission is tomorrow evening, but I probably won’t go.</p>
<p>I think am taking my all my SAT and SAT Subject test in June but idk.</p>
<p>A+ on my USAP essay, and evidently the only A+ the teacher has given out on this particular essay in 15+ years.</p>
<p>I just noticed that I have one each week from now until October 16.
The ones I plan on going to are as follow:
University of Notre Dame (not sure if I’ll apply here but I wouldn’t mind looking into it)
Exploring College Options(Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford, and UPenn )
I have another college night at one of the malls by me which will probably be like UCs and other California schools.
Duke University
Exploring Education Excellence (Brown, UChicago,Columbia, Cornell, and Rice)
Last but totally not least Yale! </p>
<p>Sent from my MB525 using CC</p>
<p>@Josh I’m looking into the library and also tutoring at the community center.</p>
<p>What do you do with the American heart association?</p>
<p>@Josh: I thought you can only take either the SAT or up to 3 SAT IIs in one sitting, which means you can only take either one once a month.</p>
<p>@Miwi, I did not start yet, but am going ti do an interview on the 12th I can’t wait! :):)
@SirSamAlot, will am taking my SATs in the spring(Dint no if may or June) and the SAT Subject Exam for US History in June. I decided i might as well take the SAT US History exam in January just to get over with it. Also taking SAT World History as well in June.</p>
<p>@joshiah I’ll look into it. Do you know what kinds of volunteering you can do with them?</p>
<p>@ Miwi I believe that I will be spreading awareness of heart diseases and setting up events sponsored by the American Heart Association.</p>
<p>Anyone else go to a stupid school where they mix up the homeroom classes every year so that you “meet new people”? And then makes sure that you have NO electives together with your friends except for AP Bio where the teacher will give you the evil stinkeye and take five points off your average if you even try to talk? And makes sure that your homeroom classroom and the homeroom classroom where your friends are are on two different floors?
AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!</p>
<p>Surprisingly, my school mixed up my homeroom up this year for me. They did do some mixing up last year but it was not as extreme. But I know almost all the Juniors of my class and people know of me so am comfortable with making new friends (Relatively small school). They did have elective last year for the first time and they did mix it up and I got to know people more. I do have an homeroom teacher and I think she secretly loaths me but then again idk it just seems so. Just think about the good thing Hannah and remember this is your Junior Year your going to have so much school stuff your going do probably will not ever think about homeroom :)</p>
<p>Yeah, but the problem is that I’m not in classes with any of them except for AP Bio because we have a weird class system(because my school is so small, there are very few levels of classes because most are honors level so they just give duplicate classes to each homeroom). Theoretically I could’ve planned my electives to be with them but that would be stupid, because my electives are my only options to actually plan my own life at this stage of the game.
But it’s really irritating because like you said, there’s going to be so much school stuff that without having them in my class, I’ll never actually see them! (except possibly at lunch once or twice a week). There are even kids who I’ve wanted to have in my class since ninth grade but this is my third year in a row of not having them in my class.
Oh well. There’s always twelfth grade to hope about…
And yes, I’ve only got 50 kids in my grade so I do know everyone in my grade (heck, except for the brand-new freshies I know everyone in the whole SCHOOL), but I’m not necessarily as close with them as with my other friends.</p>
<p>I don’t have homeroom, but I’d love it if that happened; I’ve gotten too used to honors/AP kids.</p>
<p>@HannahOnly 50 kids wow that’s small have about 150 kids! Well that’s make it much better people either know you or knw of you that’s good enough. People will not perceive you as the new quiet kids whom has the qualities of diffident. Just don’t worry it wil be ok also you will met knew people which is always a plus! :)
@lldm, lucky you I get a grade for homeroom :/</p>
<p>I dunno- all my friends were the honors/AP kids. I guess that nerds gravitate towards each other :).
Don’t get me wrong, there are some great kids in my class, but I do like to talk to my friends occasionally in person as opposed to gchat.</p>
<p>Hey guys!</p>
<p>I spent 15 minutes talking myself out of being ■■■■■■■■. (I tend to have frequent internal debates- I’m really indecisive!). I don’t know why but I really wanted to try selfing Physics C and Chem and taking Bio in school all in one year plus MV Calc/Linear Algebra + AP history + AP lit. The catch is, if I was just aiming for 5s, that’d probably not be impossible, because a 5 (frankly), does not requiring a phenomenal understanding of every topic, but I’m trying to go beyond in a competition, so it’d be better I think to focus on that one subject and self Physics C in senior year. </p>
<p>That being said, do you think my courseload overall is rigorous enough?</p>
<p>Frosh:
Algebra 2 Honors (Basically Algebra 2 and Precalc)
French 2 Honors
Bio Honors
Chem (no honors offered)
English (no honors offered)
Social (no honors offered)</p>
<p>^Old high school. I did okay that year (3.8ish, school doesn’t weight, but I was grappling with some very serious family issues at that time which I was not smart enough to deal with until the end. (Parents living far apart willingly etc.)</p>
<p>New High School (after move to a different country):</p>
<p>Soph:
Social Studies 10 (No AP offered)
English 10 (No AP)
Chem 30 (grade 12 chemistry)
Calculus AB
Calculus BC (2nd term)
English 20 (11th grade english, 2nd term)
Physics 20 (11th grade physics, 2nd term)
French 20 (11th grade french, 2nd term)</p>
<p>Junior Year:
AP English Lit/ English 30 (Grade 12 English)
AP Biology/Bio 30 (Grade 12 Biology)
AP World History/Social Studies 20 (Grade 11 Biology)
Linear Algebra/MV Calculus from EPGY
French 30 (Grade 12 French)
AP Chemistry + Competition Self study</p>
<p>Senior Year:
Diff Eqs/something else
AP European History/Social 30 (Grade 12 Social)
AP English Lang Comp (Online somewhere)
AP Physics B/Physics 30 (Grade 12 physics) and AP Physics C self study
Something with Francais- online or whatever
Maybe AP Economics/ Stat</p>
<p>I’m aiming at techy schools like Caltech along with traditional CC schools as an intl student:P .</p>
<p>Do you think that looks good? I’m kind of worried about it because I didn’t take an AP science in sophomore year and tons of my friends (in the states, though, took AP Physics B and AP Bio/Chem already). </p>
<p>Obviously ECs are important too, and I’m trying to commit to the Cal Newport philosophy- i.e. don’t overschedule, have free time, think, do other meaningful stuff.</p>
<p>Any thoughts?! Thanks! :)</p>
<p>All I ask for is a simple SAT fee waiver form. My guidance counselor is busy, so I ask the head because she’s not busy. She says they were due Friday, except I read on CollegeBoard yesterday that you can still get a fee waiver for the month of October if you sign up before the 2nd deadline, but before I can say that she tells me how I shouldn’t be taking the SAT so early because everyone else takes it in March and then October of senior year. I tell her I know this, but I’m already studying now for the PSAT (for NMSF), so I’d like to take it as soon as possible. She tells me waiting until March is best because by that point I’ll have learned a lot of math in class that I wouldn’t know by October. She then proceeds to say, “What’re you in, algebra II?” and I respond and tell her I’m taking pre-calculus. She continues to say that it’s better if I take it in March, and then asks me three times if I understand what she’s saying, as if she were speaking Greek, before I can even get a word out.</p>
<p>I just restrained a sigh, thanked her, and left.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be so frustrated if she hadn’t cut me off every time I opened my mouth.</p>
<p>I’m just going to see my actual guidance counselor tomorrow morning; he thinks I’m close to being a genius (such an overestimation), so he supports literally everything and anything I want to do.</p>