<p>@PoisonIvy20 Favorite academic interest would be Finance. What would you suggest I do? </p>
<p>I just don’t think I’m into the whole research a hypothesis with a professor thing. I guess a sort of project would be interesting.</p>
<p>@Woandering hmm Maybe a project studying finance with regards to people? the earth? Studying patterns between what we do as humans to something “financial”? I don’t know. My best advice: go to a teacher/mentor tell them your interest and with their guidance formulate a research topic that you are really interested in. </p>
<p>From the list of this year’s Intel STS Finalists, here’s one of the topics from one of the students: Using Google Trends to Enhance Predictive Models of Mortgage Delinquency to Mitigate Risk in the Loan Lending Process, correct me if I’m wrong but I think this sounds “finance-y” </p>
<p>And if all fails, Google is your friend. I would remember that research gets really specific and may even overlap in another subject. So don’t think of it necesarily in terms of just finance, but like “The effect of the amount of hours on Facebook on the amount of money a person makes in a month” Lol I just made that up, but yeah something like that. </p>
<p>Hope I helped–somewhat</p>
<p>@PoisonIvy20 Thanks for the ideas, but like I said, I’m not really into the research component. I don’t want to be collecting data and whatnot.</p>
<p>Funnest thing I can do right now is get an internship at hotshot firms or banks. Just thinking about something more unique but just as fun.</p>
<p>True! You could also start a club in school! But yeah that internship sounds really good. Why didn’t I think of that?! Hope you ultimately find something worthwhile that you enjoy!</p>
<p>Any fellow graduates attend a school that requires a class for a sport? I’m in a situation where I have to drop a sport and quit or continue with it and drop 2 academics, one in Junior and one in Senior. (My school only requires 2 years of Physical Education)</p>
<p>Any individuals in a similar situation? Anyone already found a solution to this, what did you do?</p>
<p>I went to orientation for the school I’m attending next year, and my tentative schedule
is something like this:</p>
<p>-AP Physics I with Advanced Problems in Physics (most rigorous physics track there; the AP class meets four days a week, and the advanced problems class meets on the fifth day)</p>
<p>-Math Modeling/Uni Cal I (assuming I do poorly on the BC exam in two weeks) OR Math Modeling/Uni Cal II/Differential Equations (assuming I do well on the BC exam) OR AP Stats/Math Modeling with Cal II/III/Diff.eq senior year. </p>
<p>-Chemical Reactions/Properties of Matter (basically chemistry; taking AP chem with the physics track is suicide, so I’ll be taking these two, which are basically AP level but at a slower pace; taking AP chem exam at end of year, though)</p>
<p>-Economics (required)</p>
<p>-University English I </p>
<p>-Astronomy/Astrophysics (elective I)
-Electronics (elective II)
-Introduction to Research (elective III)
-CS Principles and Programming I (elective IV)</p>
<p>As I said above, this is tentative. I’m just hoping I can pull off at least a 4 on the BC exam so I can place directly into MM/Uni Cal II/III/Diff. Eq. and bypass Uni Cal I altogether. If I do poorly on the exam, though, I could just get my AP Stats/MM done in junior year, retake the BC exam at the end of my junior year, and go into Calc III into senior year. Right now I’m taking only 7 credit hours since I’d like to have free time to do research and other stuff. I’m saving my PE credit, art credit (turns out public speaking/debate I don’t constitute an art credit like I thought 
), and most of the easy classes for senior year (with a few harder ones like AP Physics C, Calculus ___, Organic Chem, Biochem, Discrete Math, etc.) for when the senioritis hits. </p>
<p>I hope my classes get scheduled in such a way that I have only one or two classes on at least one day of the week. I’d really like to sleep in at least once a week or so. I was talking to a guy at the school (current junior, will be a senior next year), and his Tuesday is basically one afternoon calculus class. Ideally, I want something like that. </p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt
speaking of “public speaking”…I’m already not in the mood to deal with the prospect of having a Russia topic next year. </p>
<p>I was wondering if I could get any opinions on my AP sciences. I’m planning into going into biological research as a major, so this year I took AP Biology concurrently with honors chemistry. Next year, would it be better for me to take AP Chemistry (which I signed up for) or AP Physics 1? If I took Physics, I’d be able to take AP Physics 2 senior year. I know Chemistry is more important to Biology, but I’m not too confident in taking AP Chemistry based on what everybody says about it.</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt </p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>Differential Equations by Senior Year?</p>
<p>Ugh.</p>
<p>Time to cry to Harvard Stats threads while thinking about other things I’m too “plebe” to do.</p>
<p>Also, I took AP Physics B this year, so I can help answer questions about AP Physics 1 and 2</p>
<p>Yeah, can you think of an explanation why EPGY AP physics is like contest-level hard?</p>
<p>It isn’t lol. </p>
<p>“I was wondering if I could get any opinions on my AP sciences. I’m planning into going into biological research as a major, so this year I took AP Biology concurrently with honors chemistry. Next year, would it be better for me to take AP Chemistry (which I signed up for) or AP Physics 1? If I took Physics, I’d be able to take AP Physics 2 senior year. I know Chemistry is more important to Biology, but I’m not too confident in taking AP Chemistry based on what everybody says about it.”</p>
<p>No college is going to say that your basic level of chemistry or biology understanding will make you a researcher; for that you require higher level courses. Thus, you shouldn’t take courses that you think will represent your desired career, as you’ll not only likely not want to do so after some time in college, but you would still require to be educated on that no matter what, thus, not making any individual course more enticing to a college. Rather, focus on taking AP clases, but as a whole, since colleges want to see if you are at the necessary level, not the necessary information. If you’ll do worse in AP Chem, don’t take it, since it will hurt you more than help you.</p>
<p>Just found out about an amazing internship matching program. So sad I can’t attend thanks to a planned busy summer. If anyone’s interested:
<a href=“http://www.saturdayacademy.org/ase/student-information/status-ase-positions”>http://www.saturdayacademy.org/ase/student-information/status-ase-positions</a></p>
<p>It’s way past application date, but perhaps if you’re super interested, you could call and get an internship at one of the unmatched internships. It looks amazing to me.</p>
<p>@Apollo11 Thank you! I was asking because I feel like I’d do much better in two years of Physics. In honors Chemistry this year, I kind of felt like going on to AP Chemistry would be difficult for me, in part because of a lack of interest. I wasn’t sure if I should feel obligated to take it because of my high interest in biology. I think what I’ll do is take the first year of Physics Junior year, and from there see which I want to take senior year since I’ll have experience with both. </p>
<p>@awakeningvenus </p>
<p>You’re welcome.</p>
<p>I’ll be here all week.</p>
<p>Anybody studying for AP exams?</p>
<p>I got like 6 to study for, plus 4 UConn finals</p>
<p>@Apollo11
Only world. I’m not studying for chem and I’m not taking the AP exam for calc. </p>
<p>@Apollo11 Not really studying for either AP Macroeconomics or AP Microeconomics. Should I be?</p>
<p>@Woandering Depends what you score you’re aiming for. </p>
<p>@Apollo11 I’m studying for AP Biology and AP World History. I’m more worried about biology than world history though.</p>
<p>@SwaggyC 5 lol, isn’t everyone? Every practice test so far, I have scored easy 5s on. Making sure, if anyone knows, the curve is 80% and above is a 5, right? That’s what our teacher has been telling us all year. This is for both Econs.</p>