@Faultystart partial credit doesn’t exist in any of the Honors Precalc classes at my school. I’ve done very badly on some tests because of super-dumb mistakes.
@Faultystart I also left competitive year-round swim lol. No need to shower every night! 
@Cornbread1999 It was either shower every night or have chlorinated hair. There’s these two kids at school and their hair color has changed because of all of the swimming they do. Competitive swimming got too competitive. My coaches kept pushing me to make JOs and attempt to get zone cuts in the 100 and 200 butterfly and I was the only butterfly swimmer on my school team. Too much butterfly for me!
@faultystart sameee. I also hated my swim coach with a fiery burning passion. She was just unreasonable and couldn’t get her finances correct. My parents got pissed when they got billed three times each month. Not to mention, she singled people out to humiliate them in public. All of my friends ended up quitting, and I decided that it was for the better.
It was still kind of a waste, I had JO’s in the 50, 100 and 200 free and an A time for the 500 free.
@Cornbread1999 I had this coach who made incredibly unreasonable sets, like 10X100s on a minute. She had our standard warm up be a 200 IM kick, 200 IM dril, and then a 200 IM. Let’s say not many people liked her much.
@Faultystart I had 10x100s on a minute. Once, she forced us to redo the entire set of that along with a couple 200 butterflies because we didn’t “try hard enough”
@Cornbread1999 I can barely go 59 in a meet in the 100 Freestyle. I think one of the worst sets I had was either the 1000 IM (not a typo) or 30x100s descending (1:30 for the first 10, next 8 on 1:25, next 6 on 1:20, next 4 on 1:15, and lest two sprint.) I’m not very good at freestyle.
@Faultystart We had a set where we did 20x100s in IM order on descending interval from 1:45. After 4 100s, when we completed a 100 of each stroke, we did either 100 or 200 butterfly (or maybe it was 200 or 400 IM, I honestly can’t remember because this happened so many times).
I hated my swim coaches hypocrisy. She tells us not to swear to become a better person, yet I have heard her use f**, sh, and goddmnit in the same sentence.
And this was club swimming. I thought high school swimming was ok. In fact, I think I improved more in 3 months of high school swimming than I did in 6 months of club swimming.
@SallyStephens Wow thats pretty bad… Thats quite alot to take off when it was really only one mistake you made multiple times. I literally had a similar thing on my last Calc BC test on Integration, I was marked down 1 point, 12 times for not stating the values of the interval, when I clearly solved for it, and had it in my integral notation. When solving I left it like (x+2)(x-1), and got marked down for not writing x= -2, 1
Oh and lol the high school class of 2016 and the class of 2015 forums have like, 600+ pages of comments. This is depressing
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It seems like anyone from my school who goes to a good college has taken APUSH, which I’m not planning on taking… It worries me a bit. But with my extracurriculars (namely colorguard, which will literally take three hours out of my homework time some days), it’s not logical for me to take APUSH. The only girl I know who took a schedule similar to my planned one for next year + APUSH got like, three hours of sleep a night (with a time-consuming EC, but I have one as well). But it still scares me. I’d love to take APUSH, but I literally do not have the time.
And some of my ECs are history/political science-related. Whelp. Sorry history, I love English and science/math more.
Also, according to Naviance, the average GPA of admitted applicants to MIT from my school is 3.98… The most I’ll have by the time I apply is a 3.93 (maybe 3.94 by the end of senior year?). But also according to Naviance, 9/22 people from my school who apply to MIT get in (although I’m not sure if this number is entirely accurate–it seems a bit off; I’m pretty sure only 9 people got into MIT as a whole from my school last year, and surely more than 22 people applied).
And Naviance still has my first-semester GPA from last year, so I’m not sure whether to trust it.
@topaz1116 Correlation does not equal causation. Also, I just wish I knew my semester GPA.
@Faultystart of course. But it still worries me.
Nevertheless, I shall carry on and attempt to salvage my GPA for this semester.
I don’t even think I can swim. I know you guys aren’t talking about swimming anymore but oh well.
The average GPA of admitted applicants to MIT from my school is 4.64 on our weighted scale which gives one extra point for AP and IB classes. From 2010 to 2014, only 3 out of 24 were admitted. That’s pretty bad but not as bad as the fact that 17 people from my school applied to Stanford last year and 0 got in.
I have another quiz for my crazy calculus teacher Tuesday so you can imagine my fear. Like “oops let’s take 27 points off my student’s test because her x’s aren’t pretty” I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AT THIS POINT.
I got a 96 on my AP Chem test, though, so that’s the silver lining to my week I suppose
@dsi411 At my school, half the graduating class (about 200 students) apply to Stanford and the Ivy Leagues. I don’t know the specific numbers for the Ivies, but I do know that between 15 and 30 students get into Stanford each year.
@Cornbread1999 According to Naviance, the most applied to college from my high school is the local community college, and then the local CSU. So I guess our schools are very different. My school has a 9/10 on Greatschools though, so it isn’t bad.
@dsi411 same, my school has a 9/10