<p>^^it all depends on what you like better and what you did better in (if you took the honors class that is, like just regular chem or bio). To me bio seems easier but then again I had a rough time with chem. it also depends on your school, at my school bio is everyday all year (2 classes basically) while chem is every other day all year, if your school has them as every other day all year for both classes, bio might be harder to squeeze in, so more learning on your own since it can’t all be covered in class. </p>
<p>Really just depends on your school, and you. Bio is my choice, but I’d also save the easier class for senior year, that’s just what people seem to do.</p>
<p>Also would like to point out, hard classes also should be ranked depending on if you’re study smart or IQ smart (like grasping concepts). For me, AP Physics is pretty easy, and AP psych is a struggle because I’m bad at memorizing Vocab but above average at conceptualizing and understand physics concepts. Same with calculus. I find it pretty easy, and found AP human geo (a generally easy class) to be much harder.</p>
<p>I guess there aren’t as many IB students in the CO2105. I’ll be taking:</p>
<p>Math HL (AP Calc)
History HL (APUSH)
English HL (AP Lit)
Chem/Bio/Physics SL (haven’t decided, but I can’t take the AP test if I choose Bio)
Economics SL (AP Econ, Micro and Macro)
French SL (AP French senior year)</p>
<p>Are there any easier APs I can self study for? I’m in AP Euro right now (that’s all our school allows sophomores to take), but I’m hoping IB will make up for it.</p>
<p>If anyone’s into social studies (study of history), AP Human Geography is an extremely easy AP to self study for. I studied the night before and got a 4 on it. The only problem is that it changes every year, because it discusses a lot of current events.</p>
<p>Just submitted my application for summer at brown. Fingers crossed</p>
<p>I guess A Levels are the equivalent of AP Classes so I’m thinking of taking
Maths
Further Maths
Biology
Spanish
Economics</p>
<p>I want to study international relations at uni so I think these A-levels would be pretty good but some people say geography would be pretty could and maybe english lit.
Any advice? Thanksys</p>
<p>Collegeready!! I finally found another IB sophomore on here! Yeah!! <em>air five</em> 
Westwardbound, congrats and good luck! Those classes sound fine, but ask some people actually planning to major in that already at uni.</p>
<p>@westwardbound we aren’t allowed to take 5!
Economics is good, and it shows you can write but having something like English lit may be good to back this up as all your other subjects aren’t essay based. Also bear in mind that most of these are unrelated to international relations. Have you considered history? </p>
<p>I’m planning to do History, History and politics or history and international relations :)</p>
<p>@westwardbound A Level further maths is actually significantly beyond the AP syllabus, so unless you’re really interested in it you could consider swapping it for something else if you’re going somewhere in America, especially as it’s international relations you want to go into. I would say go for economics, definitely, as well as Spanish, English Lit. and History or Geography.</p>
<p>argh classes AGAIN? WILL YOU PEOPLE MAKE UP YOUR f^*$ing minds!!!</p>
<p>and now i add to the addiction:
Math: Precalc or Calculus 1 (If im motivated enough to do Precalc in summer)
Theology: Honors Church History II
Science: Physics, maybe AP B
English: Honors English 11
History: APUSH
Spanish III
College class: Macronomics/ Micronomics
(1sem Austrian Economics)
(1Sem Computer Programming)</p>
<p>@willis211 depends on which grade was better and which one you grasped the concept of more</p>
<p>College Letters anyone?
I have recieved 4 in the past 2 days:
Spring Hill
Loyola New Orleans
Tulane
University of Denver</p>
<p>^I’ve gotten at least five times as many emails as college letters.</p>
<p>Today alone I got letters from:
Tulane
UMiami
Usouthflorida
Columbia
William and Mary
UDenver
Something Reserve
RIT
And maybe a few others, I don’t remember. I throw them out immediately, it’s all the same stuff-take their personality test. Except for RIT: they sent me a nice brochure and did not pretend to be personal. I like that. </p>
<p>As for emails, I’ve gotten only from a few colleges…but they come in constantly. York, Drexel, St. John’s, and a few others.</p>
<p>Actually, now that I’ve looked at my inbox, the emails seem to have come to a stop. Finally!</p>
<p>Lucky with RIT</p>
<p>all mine are take your personality test. Though i havent looked at Tulane yet</p>
<p>That’s the last time I tell my parents when I get a bad grade.
I got 48% D on one of my mock literature papers, and 75% B on the other, giving me 62% C overall. I know it needs work on to end up with an A or an A* in the summer, but we were marked stricter than we will be, and we haven’t finished 3 of the books. When I told my mum she said that it was “appalling and disgraceful” and told me no university will accept me with that grade. Just upsetting, unhelpful and untrue.
Anyone else got pressuring parents?</p>
<p>Yeesh, I’d be happy with 62% in English. My school makes us do it for higher (equivalent of AS), which is even worse. I’m hoping for 70%.</p>
<p>On that note, I never got my prelim (mock) English mark back when I was supposed to since I was off, and I just got my report back. It’s a low 2 (bottom end of the credit/GCSE level pass). I’m hoping my portfolio essays will make up for it if I do badly on the final exam, but the fact I’m only just within credit is not making me look forward to higher.</p>
<p>@ukgirl23 yeah we can only take five if we take further maths! Otherwise just four. I never took history for GCSE, I went for chinese, spanish, geography and drama instead so I’ve kinda limited myself.
I was seriously considering Government & Politics but I figures if I study in the US it wont be that much help because the whole first year is about Britain
I submitted my options form today. I chose</p>
<p>Spanish
Maths
Further Maths
Geography
Biology</p>
<p>@almostanonymous I researched a levels you had to have to study international relations and it said any subjects. Was this wrong?</p>
<p>^ That just means there are no set subjects needed. To get into a good university, they’ll still look for certain subjects which will make you a strong candidate.</p>