Wow I didn’t even know a required college admission test existed.
I don’t think there is such a thing…
California has the CAHSEE, which determines if you graduate, but it’s not required for college admissions.
Ohio has the OGT, which is a joke (and we’re the last class that has to take aggghhh), but it’s a graduation test as well. College admissions tests are not required for completion of high school and preferences or requirements are based on individual universities, not their state.
I looked into it and apparently 12 states (including Michigan) require students to take the ACT and 3 states for the SAT
That would explain why the mean scores are so low.
Okay I need someone’s help! who’s good at math and wants to help me calculate some GPA’s? I would plug it into a website but it involves some subjective thoughts as well.
I’m so bad at drawing parabolas.
It’s going to be sub zero tomorrow and I’m still having school. Why can’t I have a ‘cold day’ like last year? (granted, it was like -20 degrees with wind chill, but sub zero’s too cold)
Our school is closed because it’s below -15 with wind chill.
Wooo
@SallyStephens If you still need help, sure!
@Faultystart We haven’t had school for the past two days becuase it’s been -25 with wind chill
@tigerman333 Lucky! I haven’t missed school yet this year. The closest to no school was an hour delay.
How does this look for my junior schedule?
AP Chemistry
AP Language
APUSH
Honors Pre-calc
Honors Chinese 3
Honors Spanish 5
Honors French 1
Guitar (I need the fine arts credit)
Does anyone think I should drop to standard chemistry, because I’m looking to go into applied linguistics and not… chemistry?
I’m nervous the workload will be overwhelming (I’m committed to multiple ECs…)
Stats: PSAT sophomore year- 194
GPA ~3.9 weighted (I have no APs so far, but I’m taking AP Gov semester 2 this year)
THANKS
@Spiral7 Go you for taking three languages! I gave up on Chinese a while ago (I had a tutor) and I just started trying to teach french. J’aime francais. I think your schedule is not too bad unless the difficulty of Spanish 5 is like AP spanish… (I’m going to do AP Spanish Lang next year). No keep the AP chem it will help you at some point in your life who knows plus it will get rid of the gen-ed chem so you don’t have to take the college chemistry class (depending on where you go)
By the way… I am just wondering what colleges you guys are thinking of attending since you are obviously somewhat ambitious for being on this site as a sophomore? Obviously I’d want to go to an Ivy (dartmouth, brown, yale, harvard are my favorites) and then williams, georgetown, uchicago, uflorida, and duke
My dream schools are upenn and columbia
@Spiral7 That schedule looks fine to me. Unless you think AP Chemistry will be too hard for you, I suggest that you keep the schedule how it is.
@Calchong For colleges, I just know I want out of Ohio, and somewhere not too cold.
Speaking about schedules, how does this look for junior year?
Anatomy and Physiology
AP Chemistry
AP U.S. History
English 11 Honors
Precalculus Honors/AP Calculus BC (depends if I test out or not)
AP Spanish Literature
Programming 1/2 (each is a semester course)
I also will have 2 sports, and be heavily involved in three clubs.
My dream schools are MIT, Harvey Mudd, and Stanford.
@Faultystart your schedule seems good! BC, of course, would be awesome; but it seems (somewhat) manageable (or at least, as manageable as my schedule will be, which is… somewhat).
Any advice on convincing my mom to let me take APES instead of AP Bio next year? She thinks APES will be too hard based on the testimony of one person who hasn’t taken the course (Bio is also hard, depending on the teacher you get, and the APES teacher is far, far better than either of the Bio teachers, which she knows). I hate bio and would rather take it in college if I’m going to get a bad teacher here anyways. And then there’s my dad, who thinks I shouldn’t take a second science next year and should just take Stats (an easy AP that I was planning on taking at the CC some summer).
Ughh. I want to learn about things I actually like.
My schedule, by the way:
H. English 11
AP Calc BC
US History
AP Physics 1
APES (hopefully)
Journalism (if I get in) or Spanish 4 (CC credit)
Marching Band (which will eat up 90% of my time).
Marching Band (where I’m part of the Colorguard) basically takes up the same amount of time as a sport (although it’s only two-three days a week, I got back from practice at 6:30 today, for example), and hopefully I’ll be able to do Winterguard as well, which means I’d be busy the whole school year with that. I’m also heavily involved in one or two clubs. But I still think I’ll be able to handle my schedule… ish. To be honest, my senior schedule is worse.
@topaz1116 Well, try to explain to your mother why you want to take APES over AP Bio. Maybe try to explain that if you like the material more, you’ll probably get a better grade (hopefully). To be quite honest, I’m not the best at giving advice, so I hope this helps somewhat.
It seems everyone knows how to play an instrument, and I’m the odd one out.