@Verit4s next year i am taking Honors Biology, Honors Pre-Calc, Honors English 11, APUSH, Honors Spanish 4, AP Statistics, and Theories in Leadership. My dream job is to be a neurologist/neurosurgeon and to get there I am volunteering at a local hospital and filling out a program for a mentor program where I get to shadow a surgeon at the hospital this summer. I am crazy stressed and put an immense amount of pressure on myself to do well in school. I don’t get a lot of sleep at night and don;t do anything on my Friday and Saturday nights because I am always working on schoolwork. I am insane.
@KE3299 Haha, you are not insane, you are like a lot of students I know. My school is ultra-competitive and the competition between the top 60 students in our school (which includes me 
) is tough. You seem really determined and interested in the medical field. That’s cool. [I don’t do anything either other than school/ec/other related on the weekends, I only have fun on breaks the last of which is finished for me until summer 
]
That’s basically the schedule of everyone at my school. You’re not insane, just not used to it.
Yeah true, it just bothers me that no matter how hard I work I’m not even close to the top of my class because of how ultra-competetive my grade is. Not even my school, just my grade is super competitive and we have SO many naturally smart kids who just get 100s on test they never study for while I work my butt off and barely get 90s
lol, my school is ultra-competitive as well. Everyone is so STEM-oriented, and we are around the top 10 STEM Schools in the nation (according to USNews)
and yeah, my there are so many naturally smart people in my grade. And my grade (xxx high school class of 2017) has been considered one of the academically weaker classes.
@Verit4s Next year I’m planning to take AP Chemistry. APUSH, AP Spanish Language, Precalculus Honors, English 11 Honors, Anatomy and Physiology, and Programming I/II (semester). I have absolutely no clue what my dream job is. I think I may want to go into the sciences, but I’m not sure. While at this moment I’m not stressed out (Spring break just started!), I definitely was throughout this quarter, mostly because of the 11 page research paper. I’m pretty worried about AP Chemistry next year because I’ve heard the class average is a B-.
@KE3299 I used to be that kid who aced tests without studying in middle school. Let’s say I learned that I have to study for tests the hard way last year…
Next year, I plan on taking AP Chemistry, AP Spanish Language, AP Computer Science, AP Statistics, Analysis Honors, honors english and classical mythology, and regular US History
@Faultystart Cool, next year I am taking AP Physics, AP Calc AB, AP English, and AP Stat/AP Computer Science 2 with H Robotics and U.S. History. Our spring break is over and b/c of snow days, we will not have a break until right before finals :((
@Cornbread1999 You are lucky that you can attend a STEM oriented school. Our school has a STEM program but our medical program is more competitive and developed.
@Cornbread1999 Classical Mythology sounds like a really fun class.
@Verit4s I wish I didn’t have to take Programming I and II before taking AP Computer Science. Which AP English? Literature or Language?
I dislike how at my school we get five days to take five midyear exams, but for final exams we only have four days for five (or however many exams). Having three projects due the last school day before exams doesn’t help either.
Language lol
@Faultystart Yes, the week of school before finals. Where teachers scramble to get grades in and students scramble in order to survive. xD
For everyone taking AP Chem next year hows the class at your school? I really want to take it (in place of AP Stat) but my guidance consular won’t let me/doesn’t think it would fit in my schedule even though I was recommended for it. At my school only around 10-12 kids take it per year (compared to 70 who take AP Physics) and its basically impossible to get an A. I really want to take it but my guidance consular and past students really discourage it and its scaring me… However I do want to go into medicine so I feel like I should be taking it.
@KE3299 As far as I know, at my school, AP Chemistry is very challenging. Only those with a B in Honors Chemistry get recommended, and I believe the Honors Chem average last year was a C+. I was told that AP Chem is more conceptual/theoretical rather than stoichiometry-like problem solving, but I not sure about this fact. Despite the challenges of the class, all the students who take AP Chemistry get 3 or higher on the AP exam.
@Verit4s Next year I’m taking English 11 Honors, Latin IV Honors, U.S. History, AP Chem, Multi-Variable Calculus, an art class, and (assuming an app goes through and times work out) Linear Algebra and Differential Enquations at a college.
@KE3299 @FaultyStart I switched schools for seventh grade and instinctively started studying for tests (my old school had never had tests, and I was a bit frightened from culture shock), even though I really didn’t need to. During seventh grade, I studied for hours, trying to figure out the methods that worked best for me. In eighth grade, I was able to relax a bit, having found a set of strategies that ensured my confidence, and in high school, once I ran into the first class where it was necessary to study (Honors Biology), I didn’t hit a roadblock-- I knew how I learned, and so I learned. I still thank my seventh grade self for all the work they did.
@KE3299 There’s a lot surrounding AP Chemistry. Tons of mathematical concepts and application, lots of analyzing, and knowing the steps in solving problems. I’m taking it currently and as matter of fact we finished the class and are reviewing for the exam. Our teacher is also the head coach of all athletics department in our school, so I kind of get a good teacher and a bad teacher at the same time. There’s a lot of things I can tell you about the course! Private message me if you’d like to know more about AP Chemistry. Also, someone else messaged me recently and I told them the same thing I’ll tell you-- if you are interested in the course or want to see what it’s like, I have some papers and worksheets that would give you insight!
My courses for next year are: AP Chem, AP Comparative U.S. Gov, AP Seminar, AP Lang, H Spanish 3 & H Trig-Calc-Stats…next year is going to be super tough 
Hi 2017!! I’m new posting on CC but I’ve been reading these threads for a while.
@KE3299 I’m planning to take AP Chem next year, but I’m actually terrified because a lot of people have discouraged me (my guidance counselor told me it’ll be “unbelievably difficult”) and the class requires an A or A+ average in honors chem, so my classmates will be super smart. Everyone who took it last year at my school got a 4 or 5 on the exam, probably because the class is so hard. But I’m also planning on going into medicine and genuinely like chem, so I’m probably going to go against everyone’s advice and register for the class next week.
@KE3299 It depends on your school and teachers to determine how hard AP Chem is. AP Chem at my school is pretty hard and the teacher isn’t the best…so I have to study a lot outside of class to have an A. It doesn’t have that much homework though, so I just make my own homework by reading the textbook. The tests in my class are way harder than the homework assignments and so the averages are pretty low, for the one we took on Thursday the average was 65%.
@Verit4s Next year I’m doing the IB diploma program so my classes will be:
IB HL English 1
IB HL History of the Americas 1
AP Calc BC
AP Biology
IB SL Spanish 1
IB SL Psychology or SL World Religions (Which do you think would be more interesting? I think psych would be more interesting but I already know the teacher of the religions class and he said the class is way easier than the AP World class he also teaches.)