<p>I’m taking AP Environmental Science next year. It’s an easy class. I heard you just watch movies in it.</p>
<p>I may be taking AP environmental next year. my question is, if you just watch movies in it, will you be able to get a 5 in the exam? lol</p>
<p>We don’t just watch movies, but it’s a less intensive course, so we have more time to watch movies.</p>
<p>Thanks HobbitTon</p>
<p>Hey guys, if I put my stats and everything on here, could you rate my progress? I want to get into HYPS later on.</p>
<p>^Yea. Go ahead. It’s probably going to better than mine.</p>
<p>About Me:</p>
<p>-Location: Southeastern USA
-School: suburban competitive with 2500+ students
-Race: Asian (ugh!)
-Gender: Male</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>-SAT: haven’t taken yet
-PSAT: 215
-Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
-Rank: 12/653 (ugh! kill me now…)
-AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (predicting 5), Biology (predicting 5)</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>-Extracurricular (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (9 - class president, 10 - officer), Beta Club (10 - fundraising VP), Academic Team (10 - co-captain of Varsity), County Children Shelter (Teen Board member), Science Olympiad, Math Team, Key Club, Jr. Civitan, Environmental Club
-Job/Work Experience: None.
-Volunteer/Community service: I am the Project Manager for a non-profit [501(c)] organization called Greening Forward. We give out grants to schools to further their environmental goals. We also hold events and volunteer. The annual budget this year is 90k; I read with dyslexic children twice a week at the local elementary school. In total, I have 113 recorded hours so far.
-Summer activities: I’m volunteering at two major hospitals (24 hours a week). I’m interning for my state Democratic Party office (15 hours a week). Model Regional Commission if I get in. Misc. volunteering.</p>
<p>My intended sophomore year schedule (at my school: Gifted > Honors > CP):
Gifted Language Arts
Gifted Pre-Calculus
Honors Spanish III (no gifted offered :/)
Lunch
AP Environmental Science
AP World History
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Any feedback would be appreciated. I don’t bite… much.</p>
<p>How is your class rank a 12 with 2 AP Classes taken during your freshman year? Only thing that I can think of improving your application is playing sports. Pretty strong throughout. I only have 80 community service hours compared to your 113 anyway. Maybe you should take a zero period next year, if your school has one. I’m doing speech and legal reasoning next year. Don’t forget that you have 10 lines for extracurricular activities &Work experience</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply ClassOf2012HS! I’m not that great at sports to be honest. I gave summer cross-country a try, but eh, I wasn’t that ecstatic about it. I don’t think it would beneficial to play a sport just for the sake of an application. I’ve heard colleges don’t care if you played sports if you never make it to varsity anyway (and I’m never making it to varsity LOL!). I’m going to cut down on the clubs I do next year and try to get leadership positions.</p>
<p>And I’m 12 because a lot of kids took summer PE/Health so they could free up an elective for 2 AP classes.</p>
<p>Maybe you could try studying for the SAT in the summer and get it done with next year. That’s another thing you could do right now. I’m going to do summer PE this year. Do you think it would be better if I went to the ap world history prep instead?</p>
<p>Nah, you don’t need to. I say just get the credits for PE.</p>
<p>I’m doing the same thing (taking summer PE). According to other kids who have taken it, you actually have to take pictures of yourself working out. This should be fun.</p>
<p>^LOL. Are you going to put it on tumblr? Better show everyone on CC some examples. Anyways I signed up for summer PE, so I can take architecture next year. I always wanted to take class. I’m also kinda sad since my school has just decided to cut AP statistics.</p>
<p>Self-study AP Statistics. It’s easy.</p>
<p>Do you need to tell the school that your self-studying an AP course?</p>
<p>I’m doing online PE so I can get my remaining gym credit out of the way. I think I am gonna post screenshots too… that would be hilarious.</p>
<p>How do you take online gym?</p>
<p>I have no idea. I’ve signed up for it, but other than the whole “take pictures while you work out” thing, I have no clue how the thing works. I wonder if there’s ever been anyone that’s just taken a picture of themselves in workout clothes and gotten an A.</p>
<p>LOL. Online gym sounds kinda dumb.</p>