@iamnotironman I’ve gotten stuff from those schools as well and I’m not sure what to think. I’ve been getting some from reputed colleges for quite a while, actually; I think only MIT is new for me.
@topaz1116 Yeah I just got the one from MIT a couple days ago. I personally like getting mail from colleges because I’m still don’t really know where I want to go, but the spam stuff that had no graphics and just sent you ‘guides’ really annoyed me. Now I don’t get those. I know it isn’t any kind of accomplishment to get mail from good colleges, but it’s still kinda fun. Like Caltech sends me their monthly newsletters and their envelope had lecture notes on it and that kind of stuff appeals to me even though i don’t want to go there haha.
I got accepted into Carleton College Summer Science Institute today! If I don’t get into COSMOS, I still have a place to go!
@Cornbread1999 Congratulations!
@SallyStephens change of plans… as my luck would have it, by the time I could convince everyone to let me sign up for AP Chem I was already the 4th on the waitlist. So I’m going to take AP Chem senior year, and take AP Seminar next year.
Speaking of which, has anyone here taken/going to take AP Seminar??
Now my projected schedules look like this:
Junior
AP Seminar
AP Lang
APUSH
H Chinese 3
H Spanish 5
Precalc
Ceramics (for the credit)
German 1 (online)
Senior
AP Research (part 2 of AP Seminar)
AP Lit
AP European History
AP Chinese
AP Spanish
AP Chem
TA in Chinese or ESOL
with AP Gov as a sophomore that’s 10 APs total… this is all prior to scheduling issues…
@Spiral7 Wow, that is a lot of languages. I see you seem to really be into humanities and the like. I think your schedule looks great, but what about math senior year?
So, I don’t know if it has been discussed here yet, but seeing as we are sort of the guinea pigs for the new SAT, what’s everyone here doing in terms of the two SATs? Are you guys taking the old and the new, or just one of them? I wanted to take both, but I’m not sure how that would work with college applications. Plus, if I took both, it would be likely that I would end up taking the SAT a total of 4 times (2 each); but that depends on the scores I receive. And then there’s the ACT to think about as well.
I’m just curious what other people’s plans are.
@AemonDaDragonite My plan is to take the old one in June with little to no prep(I don’t have that much time) and then prep in the summer based on what I got in June for one in the fall. I may just take the new one to see how i do, but I know what to expect with the old one and don’t really want to deal with a whole new test.
@AemonDaDragonite I am taking the old SAT after extensive prep this summer. If i don’t get over 2000 ish then I will focus on what I missed and take the old SAT in January, the last month ot is offered.
I get all these emails from weird colleges I have never heard of lol but I get letters from decent schools like WUSTL and Vanderbilt.
Old SAT, probably in October. I’m not sure what I’m doing in the way of prep, since I want to prep on my own and my parents want me to go to prep classes.
@Spiral7 I really wish my school offered AP Seminar and AP Research; I’d love to take them as classes. But it would be nearly impossible to get an AP diploma with them, as it would be incredibly hard to take enough AP courses with that without mostly taking easy APs. I’m taking 6 AP courses total, plus one college math course, one DE language courses (we get CC credit for all level 3+ language courses at my school), a college course taken off-campus, and two UC weighted honors courses (most honors courses aren’t UC weighted).
I got first place in a calculus competition today!!! YAY
@Cornbread1999 congrats!
Also,
@SallyStephens nice job!
Thanks @pseudoprimal
I have the SAT next week and I’m nervous!
lol, I have the SAT in either May or October, and then the SAT Math II and Chem in June. And then the ACT in October.
@AemonDaDragonite I’m not planning on taking a math senior year, because my major, and the field I’m interested in aren’t related to math.
Also 'cause I have no room for it in my schedule…!
We get our course selection thingies next week, and I’m really worried. Everybody’s been pressuring me to take a less rigorous schedule next year, but I’ve got a whole plan and I don’t want it to be ruined by taking courses that I don’t want to.
However, I am deciding between putting Spanish 4, Ethnic Studies, or Astronomy/Geology (which may never be offered again, depending on interest) as my backup course for Journalism. Spanish 4 is weighted (CC credit), but it’s not a good course at my school–according to some people, it makes your Spanish worse because it’s heavily culture-focused; and it’s very difficult. If I do end up not in Journalism, it’ll make my life hell because I’m already taking three of the hardest courses in the school concurrently (AP Calc BC, AP Physics 1, and AP Chem), alongside Honors English (basically AP Lang except my school doesn’t offer AP Lang). Both Ethnic Studies and Astronomy/Geology seem incredibly interesting; however, I’ll always have the option of taking Ethnic Studies senior year in lieu of Creative Writing/Public Speaking (what I had planned for senior year if I don’t get into Journalism), while Astronomy/Geology might not be available. In that case, I may end up not taking Creative Writing/Public Speaking, which is a course I’m also interested in (but it seems like the most BS of the three, considering I have the teacher for Honors English right now and her class is really, really easy.)
I should be working on my Journalism application right now, since it’s due tomorrow. Whoops.
Hey guys I was just wondering if I need prior knowledge of physics to take AP Physics 1?
@SirSly Your school might be different, but at my school AP Physics is taught without the assumption that people know any physics going in (my school only has AP Physics C). I would be surprised if physics was a pre-req for Physics 1.
My school is the same way with AP and IB Physics. Though some people do take regular physics before.
@Cornbread1999 @SallyStephens I’m not planning on taking the SAT as a sophomore, do people recommend doing so? What are the pros and cons?
Wow, this term went by so fast for me. I have finals on Thursday and Friday. I’m just glad that I’ll never have to do a Physical Education course again after this week. I’ll miss having Japanese and 90 minutes of English but I can’t wait to have AP World History and Animation again.
@Greninja some of my friends took the SAT as a sophomore; they did fairly well (2200s-2400). I may or may not take the SAT in May, but an upside to taking the SAT in 10th grade is that it eliminates some stress junior year (if the test taker does well)