<p>@Franz, we do have a skiing team! I’m on the Nordic team, which means cross country, but we do also have a down hill (Alpine) racing team. it’s super cool! Keep in mind, I live in Minnesota, so we can start in early November and end in like, April. <not that we do, but there is still snow!</p>
<p>As for yearbook, it IS a club, but we meet 3+ times a week during the whole lunch, sometimes after school, and during the summer. The summer meetings are the best! It’s when we basically create the entire layout, and only the really dedicated people tend to go.
Too bad that you need to be a junior at your school! I think a newspaper you be wicked; I want to try and start one up at my school. Not sure how that will work out… ;)</p>
<p>@thatonegirlie: I was just tutoring afterschool to help with math and reading achievement levels. Nothing with story time or anything. Just working on topics like fractions, mathematical operations, and basic algebra (like 3+?=4) in math and comprehension, inferences, and fluency in reading. I don’t know how to use distractions for teaching, but I would love to hear the method that you are thinking about using.</p>
<p>@franz: I hate it when you have to take 2 interests/classes and think about which one you would rather do. I was in a dilemma last year with my electives, either Health Sciences 1 (Anatomy and Physiology) or Honors Genetics and Biotechnology online. I chose the Health Sciences 1 and I don’t have any room to do Honors Genetics in my scheduled courses (my school is real strict about taking more than 4 classes at a time unless its dual enrollment, early graduation, or credit recovery) If you are really interested in Newspaper/Yearbook, then go with it and drop acting.</p>
<p>@RLlover6: I wish that NC would have snow like in Minnesota. Good luck with the newspaper thing. I knew that if I tried to start one, nobody would read it because ALOT of people here can’t get past English 10 without failing. Most people dropout if they take English 10 more than twice. Plus, English 10 is probably the easiest English at our school because you don’t have to learn 900+ vocab words (Eng 11), write a 10 pg research paper (Eng 12), or take a huge state exam (Eng 9). You just have to do an essay for an exam and the state is pretty lenient in grading that.</p>
<p>Yeah, as much as I detest the cold/snow while it’s here, I know I’d miss winter a lot if I never had it.
Thanks! Sorry to hear about your schools lack of… Effort? Cool people like you? Haha, but yes. You will be away from it all soon enough. :)</p>
<p>To Franz again, does Drama at your school take place DURING the school day? As in a class?</p>
<p>@jerevedeparis: You get told by your teachers that your ECs aren’t good enough? They are the ones that are supposed to be encouraging us, not raining on our parades. Do you have like old teachers who are just there for a paycheck? I had one at my school like that and I’m glad she retired. She was one of the people that was holding our school back. Plus, she had horrible AP Eng Lit scores (only 15% made a passing score). She also taught SAT Prep one year and she made some people’s CR and Writing scores go down.</p>
<p>@franz–not too competitive. But most of the seniors I know are taking 6 APs out of 7 core classes, so maybe it is a bit competitive…I dunno. My class isn’t too competitive. I definitely see myself in the top twenty, but nowhere near the top. Maybe around 12th.</p>
<p>@evanb1996–I mean, I would definitely suggest taking AP Euro. It’s just an intense class at my school. Our rival high school’s AP Euro class is more relaxed than ours it seems. We ridicule them, though. But, there seems to be a method to the madness as my teacher’s pass rate on the AP exam (for both AP Euro and APUSH class) is 92 percent. With only 1 percent scoring a 1.</p>
<p>@evanh14: Well, even though I can breeze through a history exam in 5 minutes and have the highest score in the class, it is definitely not my passion. I know that AP classes can differ from school to school in terms of supposed rigor, teaching style, and amount of work. All of the AP classes at my school are online, but block schedule can really hinder you from taking them. My school can supposedly offer any of the AP courses that the NC Virtual Public School carry, but nobody takes class through them because the school doesn’t let anybody know about them.</p>
<p>Hello. ^^ This is my first time posting, kekeke. I know, no one’d bother reading this post of mine, haha. Oh, well. I understand.
Anyways, I never knew there was a high school forum. This is interesting. Now I can keep updates as to how people the same grade as me from other high schools make their way to colleges. I have browsed around in this thread, and mostly everyone seems to have come from an elite/prestigious school and are mostly taking advanced classes. As for me, I go to this high school in the middle of nowhere and is fairly new. 3 years since? This 2011-2012 schoolyear is the school’s 4th year. I am currently distressed at the thought as to how prestigious colleges would want to accept a student like me from a new, not very well-known high school with not that many advanced classes to choose from. And my high school has blocked schedule. My schedule for this 2011-2012 schoolyear:
1st Semester: Aerobics (2 years requirement to graduate), English Honors II, Leadership, and Biology.
2nd Semester: Algebra II, AP European History, Leadership, French II.
Sorry for those that actually read my whole post, haha. So, yeah. Pretty much. Alrighty, bye. :></p>
<p>Elite/prestigious school? Far from it. My High School is the top 50-100 in my STATE, against all the other elite high schools in the NATION. Far from prestigious.</p>
<p>Also, my schedule is advanced in the sense that it is the hardest course I can receive. However, not by far the highest compared to other students from much better High Schools.</p>
<p>Also, if you are reading upto this, then read this last part. Colleges (elite and prestigious colleges) do NOT, and I will say again, they DO NOT penalize you or put you at a dis-advantage because of your high school. If your high school is new, and offers little AP classes or none at all, then the colleges will understand. Colleges do not compare students schools. All they look at is the student in relation to their own schools.</p>
<p>So take the hardest courses, and take advantage of your high schools resource and that’s all that Ivy/elite colleges want to look for.</p>
<p>@dgrayz: Nice of you join in on the conversation! Not everyone here goes to an elite school. According to SchoolDigger.com, my school is ranked 455 out of 596. Not so great, eh? But what’s common about most of us here is that we are hard working students who care about their education and want to do achieve high things not only in school, but in life. </p>
<p>I’m on block schedule too and it can really suck sometimes, but I think that it’s wonderful too. My schedule is difficult for anyone in my school district because alot of people don’t go around taking 3-4 sciences in a year. My schedule for this semester is Honors Precalc Algebra, Honors Chemistry, Honors Physics, and Health Sciences 1 (Anatomy and Physiology). My second semester schedule is Honors English 10, Honors Civics, Honors Forensics, and Honors Precalc Trig. This is way heavier than a 10th grader can take at my school, but I lucked out because all of my classes fell in perfectly. I’m not trying to do Ivy League because of distance from home, but I’m planning on applying to Princeton and Harvard to see if I’ll be accepted or not and what they can offer me financial aid and scholarship wise. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about your school’s courses. Just take what they have (make sure they are the highest level possible) and make A’s and B’s in all of them. </p>
<p>Anyway, welcome to the thread! (Sorry you had to read all of this. I usually write alot when my brain is fully functional.)</p>
<p>I guess I complain about my school rather excessively, now that I checked out schooldigger.com, thanks to evan’s mention. 64th out of 658 high schools isn’t bad at all.</p>
<p>@anaychi: I think schooldigger.com is pretty reliable, but will all rankings, there maybe some discrepancies. Like for NC, you can’t choose all of the tests. I just used the Algebra 1 and English 1 scores since they are the bases of the other tests. But imagine being in the low 150 in your state! My school made AYP for the first time and got off the “NC Watchlist” with a 63.6 composite proficiency rate. My school is aiming for 80 percent by 2013.</p>
<p>My high school is ranked 252 out of 400-something, so it’s definitely not elite by any sense. And, of course, our rival high school is 21 out of 400-something.</p>
<p>How is school treating you all? I’m on my last legs of break (twenty or so days) and summer is getting to be a bit boring. I’m excited for fall/to go back.</p>
<p>Dgrayz: My school is 124/191 based off of SchoolDigger; definitely neither elite nor prestigious, haha.</p>
<p>One graduate of 2010 got into NYU; the rest were accepted to state schools, for the most part. </p>
<p>Don’t worry; a less-than-stellar school won’t keep you out of a good college. It’d be silly to deny someone just because they didn’t go to the “correct” high school. </p>
<p>Franz: I have about two weeks until I need to go back. I’m already aggravated, lol. I want to change my schedule, and I’ve been playing phone tag with the head counselor (my counselor doesn’t get back until two days before school starts; go figure), because apparently it’s too much of a hassle to swap a few classes around using e-mail… I’ve called her four times now. My friend told me to just give up because the counselors act like this every summer.</p>
it’s super cool! Keep in mind, I live in Minnesota, so we can start in early November and end in like, April. <not that we do, but there is still snow!</p>