<p>My school starts at 7:20, but I would prefer that we start at 8:30 or 9. It would be very beneficial, because more sleep makes you tend to do better in school. The adolescent brain is programmed to fall asleep around 11 PM, and wake up around 8-9ish. A group of parents started a campaign called Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal (SLEEP) to change start times, and actually did a lot of research regarding the subject. However, the county didn’t approve it. [Sleep</a> Facts - SLEEP: Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal](<a href=“http://www.sleepinfairfax.org/facts.htm]Sleep”>Sleep Facts - SLEEP: Start Later for Excellence in Education Proposal) if you want to read more about it.</p>
<p>I’m getting a little tired of going to bed at 1:30 to wake up at 5:30, I need more sleep, especially with varsity sports, travel teams, Clubs etc.
Not to mention the School work and homework (But duh? what do you expect in AP?)</p>
<p>But I love being busy and I really am enjoying my year! I have really good friends in every class and get along with all my teacher’s very well.
Oh and my school starts at 8:10 and ends at 3:30 its a long school day</p>
<p>I<code>m enjoying sophomore year, though Math class at 8:30 AM isn</code>t the funnest way to start off the day. Alex, AP, yes lots of homework!! Mostly, for my class it<code>s a lot of assignments that are due on the day of the test, but it</code>s a lot of work. But the class itself is very fun.
School starts 8:30
Ends: 3:15</p>
<p>I`m barely getting any sleep…12:00 is the earliest I make it to bed. Wake up and 6:45.</p>
<p>My classes are going pretty well, and for the most part there isn’t too much work (like a 6/10). I’m really happy to be in student council this year (it a big deal at my school) and I think I can manage straight a’s. Also if I work on art enough I can get an award or two 
i really want to go to Princeton or Yale or something (and settle for UNC chapel hill) and hopefully leadership (student council, president of a club or two), art (I’m not serious about it but I enjoy it and come from an artistic family), and academics will get me it :)</p>
<p>Yeah I’ll settle for UNC chap. But my favorite colleges are up north or in the UK. I’m in student council too as hopefully sophomore president. I have a speech on Tuesday and then they vote!</p>
<p>I always thought that secondary school starts later because some older kids might need to pick up younger siblings from primary school, so older siblings need to get out of school first.</p>
<p>Oh and @AlexHarper Good Luck!!! XD</p>
<p>And on the other post I meant secondary school starts earlier, sorry.</p>
<p>Not at my school…elementary school gets out at 3:00 and middle school gets out at 2:50. I wish my high school got out earlier so that way when I`m in 12th and my brother is in 6th I could just drive him to school. But nope, not here. We get out at 3:15.</p>
<p>Here primary school starts later and ends earlier than secondary school, so my older brother can only get my younger brother to school or back when he has free periods</p>
<p>I’m in debate! Our club is pretty laid back which was fine with me last year but I hope to get to more debates this year. I do public forum. I recommend debate to anyone who likes arguing haha but it is really fun and helps get over public speaking fears plus the writing of speeches helps your writing</p>
<p>@petlover1022: Thank you so much! :)</p>
<p>@MichalSR: Okay so my school had a debate team that was awesome about 3 years ago (when we weren’t in high school yet) But they were seniors and left. So last year, some freshman decided to remake debate team and it was AWFUL. They had no idea what they were doing. We debated over abortion and one girl was like “I really don’t know what abortion even it” lol. Oh it was so bad! I wish we had a good debate team.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not sure how to do this as the year has already started.</p>
<p>Freshman year (last year):
Honors World History A, A
Honors English A, A
Orchestra A+, A+
Tech Drawing I A+, A+
Honors Geometry A, A-
Honors Biology A, A
Latin I A+, A+</p>
<p>Sophomore year (this year):
Latin II (currently have A+)
Honors Algebra II (currently have A-)
Honors English (currently have B)
Advanced Orchestra (currently have A+)
Tech Drawing II (currently have A+)
Honors Chemistry (currently have A)
AP Environmental Science (currently have A)</p>
<p>Junior year:
Advanced Orchestra
Latin III
AP U.S. History
AP English Literature
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
Honors Pre-Calculus</p>
<p>Senior year (why not):
Advanced Orchestra
AP Latin
AP Calculus
AP Physics
AP Music Theory
AP English Language
AP Economics (semester)
AP Government (semester)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Creative Writing
Philosophy
Latin Club (NJCL; I’d consider I’m most involved in this)
Quiz Bowl
Green Machine (Environmental Club)</p>
<p>The work load is a bit higher than last year’s, but I’m almost keeping up. I just need to get in the habit of doing more of the homework at home. My tip for all of you with heavy workloads, sleep in multiples of 1.5 hours (1.5 hours is one sleep cycle), eat a HEALTHY breakfast (whole grains and such. I don’t care if you’re not a breakfast person; eat breakfast!!!), eat as much natural food as possible, don’t consume caffeine, and try to be happy (which means no boyfriends or girlfriends because you’re all undeveloped, horny creatures). That’s how I’ve been getting through the year, and I feel amazing.</p>
<p>Wow that<code>s a lot of AP classes! All right, I</code>ll post my stats, but be warned they weren`t terrific last year.
Freshman Year Honors World History-A,A Honors Bio 1-A,A Honors English-A,A Spanish 2-B,B Honors Algebra 1 pt 1-B,C (I suck at math....and th eteacher was SERIOUSLY NOT a good teacher) Intro to Media-A,A Gym/Health-B (How do you get a B in gym, you ask? I don`t know, it was the exam...slacked off)</p>
<p>Sophomore Year (Current year, so this is so far)
AP World History pt. 2-A
Honors English-A
Honors Earth Science-A (I would<code>ve done AP Bio-Chem, but didn</code>t have the required math)
Journalism 2-Don<code>t have it until 2nd semester, but I know I</code>ll get an A
Gym/ Drivers Ed-Don<code>t have it until 2nd semester, but A
Algebra 1 pt 2-A
Honors Geometry-Hopefully an A, don</code>t have it until 2nd semester</p>
<p>I<code>ll go ahead and write what I want to take next two years, but really am not sure if I should go with more journalism classes, or hit up the AP and math load…my dilema is that I really want to go to the Naval Academy, in which case I should hit up AP and Math, but if I don</code>t get in, I want to study journalism, so I want to get a lot of journalism classes in too, and we only get 4 classes a semester, so I can`t fit it all in. Any advice there?
Junior Year
AP U.S History/Virginia History (Thats my kind of history ;))
AP English
Spanish 3 (I have to get in my third year of Spanish in order to graduate, otherwise Id cut it to fit in more classes)
Journalism 3
Honors Chemistry
Honors Algebra 2 w/Trig
Senior Year (This is the year where I`m really not sure as far as more math and science classes vs. Journalism) AP Government AP English Physics Journalism 4 Advanced Study Pre-Calc Calculus</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars:
-SCAEL Team (Quiz Bowl)
-International Club
-Volunteering
- Next year I`ll be in NHS
-Active with youth group</p>
<p>GPA Unweighted: 3.5ish
GPA Weighted-3.7…3.8 with AP (3.7 is what it currently is before adding in AP)</p>
<p>Yeah I could use some work</p>
<p>My grades are A’s with a B in Geometry :(</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Honors Biology
Honors Earth science (prereq for biology)
Honors English I
Biomedical Technology
Honors Geometry
Honors World History (No AP at my school)
PE
Theater</p>
<p>Sophomore year (current):
Honors Chemistry (No AP until Junior year)
Honors Algebra II
Honors English II
Honors Civics and Economics
AP Human Geography (online after school)
AP Environmental Science
Spanish
AP Statistics (or Euro)
AP Psychology</p>
<p>Summer: Pre Calc at the community college</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Chemistry
AP English Language and Composition
AP US History
AP Calc BC
AP Physics B (online after school)
AP Euro (or stats, whatever I didn’t take in 10th grade)
Dual enrollment biology</p>
<p>Senior year:
AP US Government and Politics
AP Computer science (online)
Some type of math at local university
I haven’t really planned out this far… :)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
SADD (Students against destructive decisions club)
Varsity Volleyball team
Junior Olympic Travel Volleyball team (My biggest commitment, season is from November-July)
Varsity Track team
School Musical
A lot of Musicals outside of school
Student Council (class president)
Science Club
Green Team
Book Club
History Club (leadership team)
Student servant leader -church
Violinist for 5 years
City Youth council
Volunteering</p>
<p>I hope I can be valedictorian:</p>
<p>Weighted GPA (from freshman year): 4.5
Unweighted GPA: 3.875
Hopeful GPA this year (weighted): 5.33333 making my average weighted GPA a 4.9</p>
<p>Wow all you guys are doing so great! </p>
<p>My stats (hopefully):</p>
<p>Freshman:
French II - A
AP Human Geo - A
Gym - A
Honors Geometry - A
Honors English - A
Honors Algebra II - A
Honors Bio - A
Honors English - A (everyday all year)
Honors Precal (summer) - A</p>
<p>Soph (hopefully ill get these grades):</p>
<p>Honors English II - A
AP Physics B - A (5 or 4)
Student Council - A
Ceramics I - A
AP Calc AB - A (5 probably)
AP Psych - A (4 or 5)
Honors French III - A
(I’m gonna take my AP Human exam, since I didn’t take it last year and hopefully get a 5)
Honors World (summer) - A</p>
<p>Junior:
AP English
AP Earth
Student Council
Honors French IV
AP Calc BC
AP World
Ceramics II
Self Study AP Physics C
Honors Civics & Economics(summer)</p>
<p>Senior:
AP English
AP French
AP Stat
AP US
Student Council
AP Bio
Ceramics III</p>
<p>Thinking about doing:
Mathematics II subject test
Physics subject test
World history if there is one…</p>
<p>ECs:
Beta Club
National Honors Society
National Arts Honor society
Key Club
Student council
Internship with DNC 2012
Lots of volunteer hours… 200 maybe
Hopefully get 1 or 2 art awards.</p>
<p>Current GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.888 weighted.</p>
<p>By the end of 10th: 4.0 unweighted, 5.02</p>
<p>Current SAT (as of beginning of 9th): 1820, aiming towards a 2200+ though. </p>
<p>Rank top 1% out of 700, might be sal or Val depending. Also I go to a pretty competitive school, (we get a handful of ivy kids each year)</p>
<p>Ahh you guys are lucky because with my school, we only have 4 classes a semester, so 8 altogether. I hate the way they do that. I could get in so many more classes if we had 5 or 6 a semester. Haha, I always thought my grades were pretty good compared to other kids at my school (Rural school where only like 40% go to college, and more than 30% only go to community college and never make it to even the state university) but compared to you guys, not so great :)</p>
<p>I think I may be doing too much for ECs…</p>
<p>HOSA - President/Co-Founder
TSA - Executive Board/Co-Founder
ASHE - Executive Board
ASCE - Vice President/Co-Founder
Quiz Bowl- top team in the state, top 40 in the Nation, one of the best players
History Bowl - 1st in the state last year, 17th at nationals
History Bee - 6th in the State, national participant
Scholar Society - President/Founder/Board Member
Geography and Cartography club - President/Founder
International Affairs Club - President/Founder
Student Ambassadors(volunteering) - President/Founder
Problem Solving Club - President/Founder
Forex Currency Trading Club - President/Founder
Linguistics Club - Board Member
Model United Nations - few minor awards at conferences
World Quest - trying to win state
Youth In Government - Delegate in the Senate
Politics Club
Chess Club
Physics Club
Association of Computer Machinery
Newspaper - writer
TEAMS Engineering
Stock Market Club
ZERO G Club
Volunteering(110 hours so far)
Math Modeling(participate in competitions)
Key Club</p>
<p>Fun Clubs(won’t go on my app)
- Improv
- Outdoor
- Ski
- Recreational</p>
<p>Outside of School
- Youth Group(volunteering)
- programming
- 2 Medicals clubs at different Hospitals(linked with HOSA)</p>
<p>Internships
- App Development company
- Shadowing doctors</p>
<p>Oh my god you guys have so many EC’s…</p>
<p>Summer Before Freshman Year:
Health - A</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Algebra II - A , A
Chemistry - A , A
English 9 - A , A
World Cultures - A , A
Spanish 2 - A , A
Media - A , A
Gym - A , A</p>
<p>Sophomore Year (current):
AP Euro - (A) (5)
AP Bio - (A) (5)
H English 10 - (A)
H Spanish 2 - (A)
Pre-Calc - (A)
Gym - (A)</p>
<p>Junior Year:
AP US History
AP Lang
AP Calculus BC
AP Enviro
H Physics
H Spanish 3</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP Gov / H Econ
AP Lit
AP Stats
H Spanish 4
Ceramics
AP Chem OR H Physiology (phys gives GPA boost)</p>
<p>Will probably self study AP Psych this year, AP HUGE next year…</p>
<p>ECs (they suck):
Human Rights Watch (club)
Academic Tutoring</p>
<p>My school is having a Club Day next week, so hopefully I’ll get introduced to some new stuff then. :)</p>
<p>Freshman GPA (my schools doesn’t allow APs here) - 4.0
Hopefully GPA this year (weights GPA weird) - weighted = 4.1 , unweighted = 4.0</p>
<p>I think I`m going to take AP Psych over the summer at some point.</p>