<p>@anaychi
Waiting to get placed into my FLVS class -.-/reading while waiting. I need to be more active</p>
<p>@anaychi: I’ve applied to a few different programs, but mostly I’m stuck babysitting due to my parent’s work situation. Within the next few weeks I’ll begin volunteering at a local community center for the theatre and a children’s museum.</p>
<p>@anaychi</p>
<p>Well, my school covered the AP World History in with my global history class. Global history is a 2 year course mandatory to pass high school, however, since i’m in AP WH, my AP class was mixed with that. </p>
<p>But I am still getting the weighted credit from AP like I am supposed to, with my credit from the regular class. So all’s good.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t allow sophomores to take APs, so my courseload for next year is:
US History I Honors
Chemistry Honors
Algebra II Honors
English 10 Honors
Media Studies & Public Speaking Honors
Visual Basic 2 Honors
Orchestra Honors</p>
<p>This summer, I’m volunteering at two local hospitals and going to the BU Summer Preview Program.</p>
<p>I went away oversees to see family. I wouldve liked to do some college classes to increase my rank, but maybe. I’ll see if I can do some classes at the local college.</p>
<p>But I have some summer work to do for my AP’s in the fall unfortunatley.</p>
<p>How many of you have summer homework?</p>
<p>Luckily, there is none for me. Not even for AP Physics.</p>
<p>^yea none for me in ap physics, calc, either. Just stat</p>
<p>Hey, I’m Evan from a little town in rural NC and I’m part of c/o 2014 (whoop whoop!). I know I’m late on the whole conversation, but I’ll join!</p>
<p>My freshman year schedule and final grades:
Honors English 1 (98)
Honors Algebra 2 (100)
Honors Biology (99)
Honors World History (100)
PE/Health (100)
Career Management Health (100) {a basic elective to prepare a student for health sciences}
Digital Communications (99) {a basic computer class, but I could’ve had Spanish if the class wasn’t full}
Visual Arts 1 (98)</p>
<p>My sophomore year schedule:
Honors English 2
NCSSM Honors Precalculus Algebra
NCSSM Honors Precalculus Trig
Honors Chemistry
Honors Physics
Honors Civics and Economics
Health Sciences 1
Spanish 1</p>
<p>I love science and math. I want to go to UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Emory, Wake Forest, or VCU to go into Biochemistry, Chemistry, or Pharmacy. I’m #1 in my class of ~125 with a perfect 4.0 unweighted GPA and an 1810 SAT. </p>
<p>I’m excited to be a member of c/o 2014 and CC!</p>
<p>I’m Dan and I’m also a little late to be posting I here! So I guess I’ll do my schedules first:</p>
<p>Freshman
Adv. English 9
Algebra I
Earth science
Global (s.s.)
Spanish 2
Health
Computers
Gym
I got A’s in everything except English (B). I blame my teacher. Great personality but terrible grader. </p>
<p>And my ECs:
Mock Trial
Student council (go treasurers!)
Key club (like 50+ hours this year)
Model UN
Musical (not a lead 
)
Juggling Club (failure)</p>
<p>Sophomore!
Adv. English 10
Geometry
Biology
Spanish 3
Chorus
Gym(all 4 years)
Maybe a class I’m forgetting</p>
<p>I’m really in to computers since I had to take a computer class. I would’ve went further in it, but I need a music credit. I’m aiming for a lead this year in my musical, but I still don’t know what it is. I plan to continue my ECs and start a debate club. well that’s all. Let’s go 2014!</p>
<p>Wow, you guys are all so… involved. I literally did nothing this year. Part of it was that there was nowhere for me to get information about ECs. My school just doesn’t make them easy things to take part of. This is probably going to screw me over a lot in the further years.</p>
<p>Dan2014 reminded of me of my ECs.</p>
<p>Marching Band (2 time Highstepping National Champion 2A Band [2006 & 2007] and 3rd Overall in 2010)
HOSA (first male and first underclassman to be president of HOSA in school’s history)
SGA (Freshman Class President, Homeroom Rep, and served on several committees)
Usher in church
Mime Dancer in church
Baseball (didn’t make JV this year, but I played rec ball)
8 Week Internship and (now) Part-time employment at NASA SEMAA (look it up!)
Concert Band
Pep Band</p>
<p>I think there’s one more, but that’s enough! I hope you all have a great 4th!</p>
<p>PS: Anybody here looking at applying to NCSSM next school year? I am!</p>
<p>Concert Band isn’t technically a EC as it’s part of the course in your school (If concert band is from your school) where you get High School credits. </p>
<p>Since I have done Concert Band freshmen year, and it doesn’t count as an EC. I am in Symphonic Band Sophomore.</p>
<p>Also im going to get in Marching Band starting Sophomore, so im happy that I have another EC to fill me up. Lately I only have Model UN since the beginning of freshmen and quit Golf (boring) and Chess (un-organized group where the leader quit). Hopefully I can start internships starting Sophomore year.</p>
<p>Model UN was the only good club I found that was very organized :(</p>
<p>@nothingto Concert Band is really considered an EC (at my school) because it’s not a course at my school. The only type of instrumental class we have is Marching-Percussion and Music Appreciation, since our band director has to teach Yearbook I and II (one year sequence) and we only have 4 class period a day (all teachers have a planning period) He also teaches at the middle school, so he only teaches 2 classes at my high school. My school district faced some harsh budget cuts the last few years, so we only have 1 band teacher and 1 chorus teacher for the high school and the middle school.</p>
<p>What is Model UN? I’ve heard of it, but never really looked it up.</p>
<p>Can someone rate my schedule with some advice?</p>
<p>History of the Old Testament
Chemistry
AP Language
Geometry
AP European History
German 2
maybe AP Psychology</p>
<p>I’m home-schooled also. The AP classes are online and audited by CollegeBoard.</p>
<p>@tofugirl101 That’s a pretty good schedule. It’s not too challenging, but not too easy for a sophomore. I heard AP Psych is super easy. AP English Lang and European History are a challenge (well, I hate history and struggle with some topics in English). Geometry should be a breeze, unless you hate shapes or art or math in general.</p>
<p>Thanks Evan! I was thinking I could do Geometry and Algebra 2 simultaneously. How about that?</p>
<p>@tofugirl101: You should do pretty good if you take them together. There isn’t a huge overlap, unless your version of Algebra 2 has trig in it (mine didn’t). You should do well in both of the courses, but beware of logarithms in Algebra 2 and transformation matrices in Geometry (my teacher made my class learn them, since we were her “better Geometry class”).</p>
<p>I’m ignoring all my summer work, though it isn’t much. Just have to read a Vonnegut book, do a dialectical journal on said book, and read a glut of AP US information for a test we’ll be taking on the 1st day.</p>
<p>On the note of summer activities, I have been relatively inactive. Since I’m only becoming a Sophomore next year (as is everyone) I’m too young to apply to must Pre-College programs. I’m set on going to one next summer, perhaps Summer at Stanford or HSSP.</p>
<p>@evanb: I actually found logarithms to be one of the easier topics. Exponential functions, the ‘e’ mathematical constant, and compounding/money problems were the most difficult for me. Though none of that compared to the trigonometry (which you noted your course didn’t include). If you’ve got trig in your course, pay close attention in class, and study on your own. It’s pretty tough stuff, conceptually.</p>
<p>As for my summer activities, I’ve been studying a lot of math, and I’ll be entering the training for my job as a camp counselor on Wednesday. Additionally, I plan to buy an advanced Biology book and maybe some Chem/Physics books to study for science olympiads next year. I didn’t realize I had so much work to do…</p>
<p>@StudiousMaximus: I also found ‘e’ to be pretty hard, so that goes back to the topic of logarithms in some way. But everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses in a class.</p>
<p>As for summer activities, I worked at NASA SEMAA part time and went to the UNC Pharmacy LEAD program. I’ll be going to the NC School of Science and Math for a two week camp and then on to marching band camp, then school starts August 8th for me. I’ve been reading Sophocles I (Oedipus Rex and Antigone) and Night by Elie Wiesel for my Honors English II assignment (I try to get so far ahead in English, so it’ll be easier for me since I struggle in English.)</p>