<p>I recommend A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind. Fabulously writen and totally true. Good book.</p>
<p>My school is being really annoying. We have to take an exam in order to be considered for an AP math class. I’ll probably end up taking AP Stats, if I qualify. If I don’t qualify for any AP class, I truly have no idea what math I will take next year.</p>
<p>^ Our teachers have to sign our registration sheets for certain classes, mainly the difficult ones. I was recommended for AP Physics Mechanics, so I signed up for it and also my school is trying to do AP Poly Sci so I might do that also.</p>
<p>We have to be recommended for math but we can basically take whatever as long as we have the prerequisites for it. And by prerequisite I mean pass the class even if you got a D. It’s kind of annoying because I go to an IB/AP school and our teachers and IB coordinator especially are really pushy into taking the Higher level classes. We have to meet with the coordinator before signing up for IB classes and she like won’t yet you leave unless you agree to take IB. Afterwards I decided to take a mix and she called me back to her office to tell me just to do the Full IB program instead. I know people who can’t handle those classes but still get pushed into it.</p>
<p>Once you are in honors at my school (you get in by either being identified as gifted before entering high school or taking an IQ test) you can take as many honors classes as you want as long as you had an A or B in the same subject the previous year. Same rule for APs, except an A or B from a non-honors class also counts (students are just strongly discouraged to take AP math and science classes without honors).</p>
<p>Woah, ArtsyGirl, you guys do IQ tests?! That’s intense! I’ve recently been wanting to have my IQ tested haha</p>
<p>For us we’re given recommendations by each subject teacher but we can override the teacher’s rec anyway. Hence the plethora of unqualified students at my school taking AP / Honors courses -__-’</p>
<p>My school is very lax in getting recs for classes, but its so small everyone knows who is ready for what class and the GC’s know exactly what the students can and cannot handle. If you want a class though you must only ask. But the lack of an honors program is possibly a part of that.</p>
<p>There was some previous talk of college searches, so I’m gonna rekindle that - what colleges are you guys looking into?
I’m hoping to go into film production / studies, but at a liberal arts school. And hopefully minor in either East Asian studies or Psychology of some sort. Leaning towards EAS. </p>
<ul>
<li>Barnard College</li>
<li>USC: School of Cinematic Arts </li>
<li>NYU: Tisch </li>
<li>Wesleyan Uni</li>
<li>Mount Holyoke College</li>
<li>Cornell </li>
<li>Dartmouth (I mean. I probably won’t apply but I’m an imaginative thinker.)</li>
<li>Loyola Marymount</li>
</ul>
<p>@Kirby Yeah, they actually just got rid of the IQ system for future incoming freshman because it was deemed unfair (you had to have an IQ of at least 120), now teacher recommendations and the submission of a few essays is how you get into honors. As for schools I am looking at LACs with strong neuroscience majors/pre-med programs that are mainly in Pennsylvania and Ohio (a couple of schools in other places though).</p>
<p>For schools, I made a dramatic change. I didn’t care for LACs now I would love to go to one.</p>
<p>My top LACs are Wesleyan (LOVE THIS SCHOOL), Vassar, and Oberlin.
I’m also interested in Tufts, UIUC, and Northwestern. </p>
<p>There’s a college fair coming so I will keep an open mind, my list could be completely different by September lol.</p>
<p>So I just found out the AP English exam is going to be on my 17th birthday… ***</p>
<p>My school doesn’t require any recommendations. The requirements are pretty much just that you get a C in the previous honors class, or a B in the previous regular class (both of which are impossible not to do unless you just don’t try). As a result, more than half of our AP classes are filled with incapable students. Hell, I know kids that literally cheat on every assignment, fail tests (ones that they aren’t able to cheat on) and get a B or a C in a class, and then still end up taking the next level AP class because technically they’re eligible and their parents make them. It’s really stupid.</p>
<p>^ My school doesn’t really do recs either. :P</p>
<p>@SmartGuyJr My birthday’s always whilst the AP exams too. <em>cries</em> I don’t think my birthday last year went well lol.</p>
<p>On another note, I’ve been pretty out of it lately. Ugh. A month through school and I only have one A. ><strong>> Darn high test weights!! From a 99 to an 81 in Calc just with one test omg. .</strong>.</p>
<p>Our school has a GPA requirement of 3.5, and a teacher signature. Also required pre-requisite classes.
AP Biology requires passing Chemistry and Biology.
Pretty much every AP class in our school is simply a harder “honors” class for a certain course.</p>
<p>I’m so happy! I got my fist A on an AP Chem test (besides the first test and without test corrections). It was the third highest grade in the class and the other two people ALWAYS get 100s so they don’t count lol.</p>
<p>^
I just got a B on my second AP Chem quiz. I’m actually really happy because I thought I failed it.</p>
<p>Tomorrow: 1st Computer Repair Test
Thursday: 1st PreCalc Test
Friday: 1st AP Chem test</p>
<p>welcome back, school. <____<.</p>
<p>I failed my first Trig honors quiz, fairly sure I failed today’s as well, at least we get to do a test retake. On the plus side I finally got my report card, my grades where…
A in AP English Lang
A in APUSH
A in Honors Physics
B in Honors Pre-Calc
A in Yearbook (yes it is a class)
A in Gym (lol)
A in Drawing 3
A in Painting 3
A in Hebrew 4 (not actually on my report card because I take the class outside of school for credits, but I know I got an A)</p>
<p>I wish my transcripts showed my number grades opposed to my letter grades. Maybe then colleges won’t see me as a failure.</p>
<p>^? aren’t they all withing a 3% range.</p>