<p>^The same thing happened at my school for AP Physics, except it happened in the middle of this year, and I’m in the class. All 80 AP Physics B kids got so screwed over. It’s terrible.</p>
<p>Well you might consider getting out of HS early - as in 1 PM - and taking a class at a local junior college or university for college credit. Might be a better use of your time.</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel somewhat held back by the lack of opportunity at their particular school? My school has very few clubs and AP classes.</p>
<p>I took AP Physics last year…The teacher is absolutely terrible. I remember last year he was gone from school for about 3 months because of jury duty.
We were horribly behind in the class because of that, and many more people failed the test that particular year. Even when he was at school, he didn’t seem to know what he was talking about.</p>
<p>I only managed to get a 5 through intense self-study.</p>
<p>MY school has a plethora of opportunities and APs. We have 29 AP classes which sounds great and all but so far I’ve only taken 1 (APUSH). I hope that doesn’t look bad, probably will though. </p>
<p>Also the class of 2014 got screwed over this year. The good Physics teacher retired and the other good Physics teacher is teaching Biology to freshman. Now here we are with a newbie Physics teacher (her 1st year teaching Physics) and we don’t know anything. God bless this upcoming final.</p>
<p>My class seems constantly screwed over year after year.
The year we entered high school, AP test costs went up ($60 -> $80), the French teacher who was well known for having a high amount of 5’s in his AP French class was replaced by an utterly incompetent one, great Orchestra teacher was replaced by a horrible one.
We also have a program called Running Start where you can go to the nearby community college and attend college courses. It used to be district-funded, but as soon as we entered high school, they implemented a policy change, to make students pay for it. They removed the benchmark test which you could take in your freshmen year to skip 9th grade science and go straight to Biology.</p>
<p>Sophomore year, they added a Microsoft Certification program (our school’s in Washington, so we sometimes have programs from Microsoft) for freshmen only, which we naturally, never got to participate in.
The year after we transitioned to Junior year, they added a bunch of Honors level courses which we could have taken, but didn’t. They’re planning on adding a number of AP classes AFTER we graduate, which is frustrating beyond belief.</p>
<p>I could go on and on.</p>
<p>That was just an example of many times the class of 2014 got screwed over.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Freshman year, they didn’t allow use to take a social studies course and a language course at the same time. So I had to choose between World History and Spanish 1. I chose Spanish 1. The next year, they changed the rule and the class of 2015 could take both social studies and a language. </p></li>
<li><p>Kind of related to the first one. As freshman we could only take 6 classes unless you were a part of this special program. A year later the class of 2015 could take 7 classes.</p></li>
<li><p>As sophomores we were suppose to get a special retreat just for us, but the class of 2013 RUINED it for us by acting stupid. The school canceled the retreat for our class. </p></li>
<li><p>There’s a special class that allows people to take Algebra 2 & Trig one semester and Pre-Calculus the next. It was a block schedule though, they would meet for two periods. It was aimed towards people who took algebra 1 freshman year but wanted to take Calculus senior year. The class was for juniors only. Once we became juniors they canceled the class. Now I have to self-study Pre-calculus while taking algebra 2/trig. </p></li>
</ol>
<p>I really could go on too but I feel like I’m sounding whiny. I think my school is after us. And we are projected to have the highest ACT composite average of any class ever. We deserve some respect. :(</p>
<p>“Does anyone else feel somewhat held back by the lack of opportunity at their particular school?”</p>
<p>No. We only have a few overachievers so they let us do pretty much whatever we want academically. Most AP classes have around 10 students, which is nice. It’s just easier to stand out at a mediocre school.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather</p>
<p>Agreed. It’s easier to stand out when no one is trying. I love my school but more AP classes would be nice. Most AP classes have up to 25 students but only 3 usually take the exams.</p>
<p>My AP classes have an average of 31 students, and nearly all take the test. I do wish I could stand out, but it’s junior year and there are 9 juniors with GPAs above 5.1, not including this year.
As for getting the short end of the stick, my freshman supplement class was standard only- until this year, where they began offering honors. Band just recently became an honors course for the very best students only, and I would have qualified in years past for the honors credit. The only physics teacher left us, so AP physics every day all year was cut in half, they gave us honors Physics credit for it, and put the majority of us into another honors science course. To recap: my school needs to get their stuff together, and so do all the rest.</p>
<p>We’re required to take the test if we take the class. Not sure why.</p>
<p>My AP class has like 24 students. I’m pretty sure all of them are taking the AP exam.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t have AP. Or Honors. A really great ACT score is a 24. Half of our course catalog is taken up with Ag and shop classes. We have 3 clubs you can join. Oh and they don’t weight anything for GPA’s at all.</p>
<p>My AP Chemistry class has 15 people, but only 1 person is taking the exam. Also got my report card for last semester</p>
<p>Journalism I-100
AP Lang American Lit-98
Latin IV-100
Math III-98
AP Chemistry-88
Psychology-98
AP U.S. History-104</p>
<p>Weighted GPA-4.1, Unweighted GPA-3.84, Class Rank-I believe it went up one to 7 out of 390 something juniors! That equates to a minimum of me being in the top 2% of my class! That’s great, plus I’m representing the African-American male youth of this country. Also, theoretically, I could graduate at the end of this semester, since my school system requires only 23 credits to graduate, but I have to take Economics and past our EOCT and I can only walk with my class.</p>
<p>English and social studies APs are really popular at my school, math and science ones not so much. Out of my class of 120 around 90 are in AP Lang, probably 20-30 will take the exam, and around 70 in APUSH, probably around 15 will take the exam. Last time I checked I had a 3.85 uw and 4.2 w, I am ranked 13 of 120 (my school kicks you out if you don’t have good grades/attendance making a high rank a pain to achieve, we had 150 when I started freshman year).</p>
<p>Quite a high standard school. My graduation class is quite large but we lose around fifty every year. Some drop out and others graduate early. </p>
<p>AP classes are available starting sophomore year. During that time about 40 kids sign up. After sophomore year there’s only 25 kids in an AP class and they’re all the same students.</p>
<p>IB Thoery of Knowledge
IB Spanish 3
IB Math Studies 1
IB Music
IB World Lit.
IB Biology
IB History of Europe ( aka HOE class) :)</p>
<p>If this board is for posting what you’re learning, here is my schedule for junior and senior year (so this year and 2014):
IB HL Biology
IB HL Chemistry
IB HL German
IB HL Psychology
IB SL English
IB SL Mathematics</p>
<p>Plus TOK, CAS and EE (essays are difficult, not looking forward to this).</p>
<p>Also trying to self study some form of Physics, most likely Physics BC.</p>
<p>Has anyone signed up for the March 9 SAT? A lot of people are planning to do it that day at my school because many of us are applying to our local college for dual enrollment?</p>
<p>I’m signing up for the SAT in June…I don’t want to have to worry about it in light of my numerous AP classes for a while.</p>
<p>Depends which class, but IK AP Bio is going to have 3 classes, one with 52, one with 42 and one with 37ish. It’s cause the GCs don’t let you drop classes even some kids who HATE AP Bio because they have D’s. I’m lucky my GC is so nice and lets me change anything I want in my schedule even just to get a different teacher</p>