I’m going to do a big project over the summer, do my summer homework, sleep, and achieve some personal goals (hopefully). Maybe I’ll help coach a summer swim team.
In short, not much.
If I want to go to a top school, is this a good schedule for next year?
AP Bio
Honors Physics
AP Calc AB
AP Micro/Macro
Honors American Lit (or should I take AP Language/Comp???)
Spanish 3
Earth and Space Honors (elective)
I have a 3.9 UW and a 4.2 W so far
Should I take 4 AP’s or leave it at 3? My main focus is going to be AP Calc…
Did anyone else take the PSsS test today?? Or willbe taking/has taken it?
@fchan11099 That seems like a good schedule. I would take 4 APs and I think you should too. I’m in AP Lang now and it’s not that hard.
@dsi411 Thanks for replying! I want to start shaping my schedule into math and sciences since I plan on going into premed, but I want to look competitive at the same time. What classes are you taking this year and plan on taking next year?
@fchan11099
This year:
AP Lang
Acc. Pre. Calc / AP Calc AB
AP World History
Spanish 2
PE
AP Chemistry
As for next year, I’m not really sure yet. But this is one of the schedules I’m thinking of doing:
IB HL English 1
AP US History
AP Calc BC
IB SL Spanish
AP Bio
AP Psych
That looks like a great schedule!
@petitlion If I get accepted into COSMOS at UCSD, that’s where I’ll be spending my summer 
Can someone explain COSMOS to me? I was lurking in the Summer Programs forum the other day and started looking at the COSMOS thread just because and it seems like a lot of people on this thread are applying.
@pseudoprimal COSMOS is a 4 week long summer program that explores a specific topic in math/science. It is an application based program, where you apply for 2 topics (clusters) that you have interest in. Some clusters are more competitive (especially the science clusters in UC Davis), and the overall acceptance rate is about 15%. The application window ends on the 24th this year (it was originally 20th but they extended it due to website issues). However, it’s probably too late to apply now, because you also need teacher recs… if you want more info you should go to their website 
@CosmosApplicant thanks! I looked a bit at their website a while ago but didn’t consider applying-- I’ve just been curious about the hype!
I’m applying to several summer programs: COSMOS and two research internship programs. If all else fails, I’ll do community service at a science museum nearby and take a class or two at the community college (I’m thinking Astronomy and Stats).
A combination of COSMOS, UM MMSS, Carleton College Summer Science/CompSci Institute, Yosemite Field Research, and California Nanoscience Institute. Maybe 2 or 3 of the listed.
The application for Journalism just came out! I’m pretty confident I’ll make it to the interview round (I did last year), but it’s the interview that really matters. I did badly on it last year and didn’t get in. People who aren’t good writers but who are good public speakers got in because of the interview. Also, the course I’m taking instead of Journalism is Spanish 4, which is really hard at my school (and I’m not particularly good at Spanish, especially vocabulary). Since I have no excuse not to take it (especially since I should probably take four years of a language) if I don’t take Journalism, I’m going to have to take it if I don’t get into Journalism. Also, I hope they don’t cut me on the rigor of my schedule because they think it’ll be too much or something.
Ugh…a math competition planned for today was cancelled because there was too much snow and while that wouldn’t be a terrible thing on its own (there are, well, a lot of math competitions), it means that I can’t qualify for the level after that which means that I’m not going to be able to see my math friends who live on the other side of the state and I might never see some of the seniors ever again and I’m feeling pretty emotionally beaten up right now and also I now can have no hope of going to the level after that which I by chance got to do last year and had some of the best experiences of my life. And there’s nothing I can do about this [annoying] weather.
TSA TEAMS Competition today! Wish me luck
I realize this is a bit early but I was just wondering. Do y’all plan on taking the redesigned SAT as well as the old SAT? I’m definitely confident on the old SAT but the new one is kind of iffy.
@themarauders I’m planning to take the current SAT in June and probably again in the fall to get it out of the way because it meshes with me pretty well, so if all goes according to plan, I won’t have to take the new one. Also, I’m pretty sure that the old SAT will suffice for the SAT requirement for National Merit, but don’t quote me on that.
@Cornbread1999 Good luck!
@themarauders I plan to take both but I might decide to do something else later.