<p>They named something after Millard Fillmore?!?!?!
I mean, if I got, say, the James Buchanan Scholar scholarship (if one existed) I’d probably turn it down from the stigma…
(BTW I know less than nothing about the competition and it may be fantastic- this is just my initial response upon reading your post.)</p>
<p>A Franklin Pierce scholarship would probably make me bleed.</p>
<p>Bad APUSH joke. ;__;</p>
<p>haha i don’t know if it’s a big deal, but apparently it’s named after Millard Fillmore because it’s a trivia contest and Fillmore was a trivial president. :P</p>
<p>I would go for the Andrew Jackson scholarship but it might get vetoed.</p>
<p>Woohoo! Start off the semester right with 2 C’s.</p>
<p>Hey guys, what do you think of my possible senior schedule:</p>
<p>Science Fiction/ I don’t know
Macro Econ AP/ US Gov & Politics AP
Calc BC AP
Mandarin 4 AP
Physics C AP
Computer Science A AP</p>
<p>/ denotes semester</p>
<p>That sounds like a good schedule! I’m taking:
AP BC Calc
AP Physics C
IB English 2 HL
IB History 2 HL (remind me again why I thought IB History was a good idea…)
IB French 6 HL
AP Stat (possibly)
AP Psych (possibly)</p>
<p>I’m thinking of doing
AP Econ Micro/Macro (it’s one year-long class)
AP English (idk if it’s lit or the other one)
AP Chemistry
AP 2D Art Studio, or some non-AP english electives (such as creative writing)
AP CompSci</p>
<p>then I have to figure something out for math. I don’t have anymore math classes to take at my high school.</p>
<p>AP Econ
AP Gov
AP Calc BC
AP Stats
AP Lit
PE (need to stay in shape ;))
Physics Honors</p>
<p>Debating whether to give up my senior open to make it AP physics (double period) since my counselor will allow me to take it even though I don’t meet the prereq…what do we think?</p>
<p>I think I may get below a 90 average in AP English!</p>
<p>My first week back has gone great besides the fact I missed two on a pre cal quiz.
Have any of you received the invitation to the National Youth Science forum for medicine or whatever? I received a really fancy letter and invitation in the mail a couple days ago.
My current grades are so pretty right now! Just have to keep them this way.
English- 100%
History- 145.45%
Math- 105.71%
Science- 141.67%
Spanish 2- 100%</p>
<p>How do you have so much extra credit in Science and History? Even in Math?</p>
<p>That’s a ridiculous amount of extra credit… Feels like WAYYYY too much. You could have an F and bring it up to an A easily.
I haven’t gotten significant amounts, more than maybe 0.05% worth on my grade, since freshman year.</p>
<p>Could be some kind of grading on a curve. Sometimes my teacher will take questions off a test after we’ve taken it so it’s out of a lower number of points, and then if anyone has above that number their grade will be higher than 100. But those grades do look pretty ridiculous.</p>
<p>I’m jealous. Even with a curve, the highest we can ever get is 100 on tests.
I’m okay with extra credit.
But I’m definitely not okay with so much extra credit that it can completely salvage your grade from an absolute fail to above perfect marks.</p>
<p>Anything more than maybe 5-8% worth in points is way too much…</p>
<p>Its really not that much extra credit. School just started so Ive done all the assignments plus the extra credit given out. I do online school so we had to watch the online orientations which were about 15 extra points. In order for it to stay this way, I have to get 100% on everything.</p>
<p>@VSinclair: Those grades are a monument to everything that is wrong with our education system… How are you supposed to be motivated to learn if you can get a 60 on the next test and keep a 100 in the class? I can understand some extra credit, but your teachers give out way too much.</p>
<p>The semester JUST STARTED so there aren’t that many points. That’s why the extra credit inflates the percentage so much.
For example, if you had two 5-point assignments and a 5-point extra credit and you did all of them, you’d have 150%. At the end of the class with all the points, you wouldn’t.</p>
<p>I am so worried about my English grade right now. We got some assignments back today, and I got 86’s on a tier 1 paper and test and an 84 on a quiz. So right now I am teetering between an A- and a B+. I have a 89 test average and a 89.6 quiz average. Right now, I have a 90 classwork/participation average, but she said she might have put in another participation grade for all of us. So if I got a 100 on the participation grade she maybe put in, I’ll have like an 89.7, which is a B+. But is she didn’t put in a participation grade or I did not get a 100, then I have like an 89.3, which is a B+.</p>
<p>So this entire long weekend, I’m going to be constantly worried about this. And I have midterms Wednesday…</p>
<p>@halcyonheather: Do you think I don’t understand percentages or something? Take a look at the lowest possible fraction of VSinclair’s points that are extra credit: assuming VSinclair has so far missed 0 points on assignments, then in two classes, at least 40/140, or 2/7, of the points given have been extra credit. That’s roughly 30% of the points given. Since it’s so early in the semester, why is extra credit even needed? There’s nothing to catch up on! If all of his/her teachers (or at least most of them) have already given tons of extra credit points, then what’s to say that practice won’t continue in the future? It’s just egregious grade inflation, plain and simple.</p>
<p>What halcyonheather said is correct. The more I do the course, 15 extra points wont make such a huge difference like it has right now.
Also, my teachers have yet to zero out assignments that are missing. Currently many of my classes are out of 15 points or less. Once they add the points in, the class will eventually be out of however many points. I hope that makes sense lol.
Long story short, my grades wont stay this way for long. The more work I do right now, the more points that will add on to my grade. For example, if my grade is 14/9. If I take a test and get 20 points out of 30, the gradebook will look at it like 34/9 because the assignment hasn’t been put in yet.
Do you see where I’m going with this? :)</p>
<p>@VSinclair: Again, I understand percentages. But the obvious assumption you’re making is that no further extra credit will be awarded. Furthermore, I don’t understand why 15 points of extra credit is necessary at the beginning of the semester. It just seems like needless grade inflation to me.</p>