@neptuna Wait… We can post tweets on here?!? OMG yes!
This is so important!
https://twitter.com/ComedyOrTruth/status/723575366594400256
This is honestly how I feel about today.
@savagestudent7 thanks for all the help and suggestions! Much appreciated 
My top choice is definitely Stats+Co-op right now so crossing my fingers I get a job:)
I have a question for you guys. How do your schools do GPA stuff? At my school (using my own grades as an example, they’re not that good…) a 3.35 GPA is a 90 and a 3.6 is a 94. Is this how it is with you all? Or is it different? :s
@Hamlon All you need to do is go to the tweet, and if you press the tweet, look for the 3 dots that are lined up vertically. Click on the three dots and it will lead you to a menu. You should a some words that say “Copy link to Tweet”, click on them. The link to the tweet will automatically be copied into your phone’s clipboard (if you’re doing this on your phone). Then, go to CC, paste the link here and it should come up kind of like a tweet would look like.
@zoriez at my school, 95-100 in CP classes is 4.0, 95-100 in H classes is 4.5, and 95-100 in AP classes is a 5.0.
@zoriez Usually, your school gives you a chart that displays all of the grades in GPA form. Here’s the chart for my county:
Unweighted GPA
A - 4.0
B+ - 3.4
B - 3.0
C+ - 2.4
C - 2.0
D+ - 1.4
D - 1.0
F - 0
Weighted GPA
A - 5.0
B+ - 4.4
B - 4.0
C+ - 3.4
C - 3.0
D+ - 1.4
D - 1.0
F - 0
My County’s Grading Scale
90 - 100 A
87 - 89 B+
80 - 86 B
77 - 79 C+
70 - 76 C
67 - 69 D+
60 - 66 D
0 - 59 F
@zoriez Here is how my school does it:
A - 4.0
B - 3.0
C- 2.0
D - 1.0
Honors and AP classes are weighted +.5 (excluding Honors Bio, which is +.25 since AP Bio is +.5) so the highest possible GPA is a 4.5, or slightly below due to required classes such as health and gym. +'s and -'s show up on your transcript, but don’t factor into you’re GPA.
OK guys, I really need some encouragement and advice, if anyone is able to give any. The last two days, I’ve been late to school. On both nights, I slept around 10:30pm. I have to wake up at 4:35am. Do you guys think that this is an adequate amount of sleep (for a hard-working high schooler)? My phone’s alarm woke me up at 4:35am, but, since I still felt sleepy, I hit the snooze button and feel back to sleep. When I woke up, naturally and without an alarm clock, it was 6:16am. I was supposed to have been on the way to my bus stop 6 minutes ago. I tried to get on all my clothes as soon as possible, but it was no use. I was like “F*ck this” and just sat on my bed and decided to call my dad, who was going to be very disappointed in me, which he was, when I told him I was going to be late to school for the third time this month. My dad didn’t come home until 8:15am, since he works the night shift at his job. I didn’t get to school until 8:50am, right in the middle of 3rd period (my second class of the day). Today felt pretty terrible. I just keep beating my self up for not getting my life together. If I don’t get my life together soon, I’m gonna have a small-scale breakdown (pretty small compared to the one Britney Spears had). I had to skip practice the last two days as well, due to my aching back. I’ve just taken pills that are slowly helping the pain. My dad just says to rest if off and hope it feels better by Monday. My coach had to take me out of a meet that was going to happen tomorrow. And just when i got a new personal record in shotput. In all of my failed attempts to get my life together and organized, I’ve accumulated a lot of homework. I have to recreate a website for Computer Math, an essay on The Tragedy of Julius Caesar for English, finish my notes for World History, flashcards for Spanish, and a homework packet on Gas Laws for Chemistry. I hope I get my life together this weekend, or this will probably get worse. At this point, I’m literally going to be crawling on my hands and knees trying to get myself to the last day of school. :(( I wish I could go on a vacation, instead of being here all stressed and working my life.
My school does this grading scale:
Standard
90-100 A - 4.0
80-89 B - 3.0
70-79 C - 2.0
60-69 D - 1.0
0-59 E - Fail
Honors
90-100 A - 4.5
80-89 B - 3.5
70-79 C - 2.5
60-69 D - 1.0
0-59 E - Fail
AP
90-100 A - 5.0
80-89 B - 4.0
70-79 C - 3.0
60-69 D - 1.0
0-59 E - Fail
I couldn’t stay awaaaaaayyyyyyyy
My school has the same grading scale as the one above, but we have Fs instead of Es, and honors classes aren’t weighed.
Speaking of honors, my Honors Chemistry class is on equilibria right now, it’s confusing…how
@ak2018 I was in the same sleep dilemma earlier this year, as I decided to take up APUSH, which has the typical reputation for the course, and is usually avoided. I also decided to take honors Chem which has a similar rep to apush at my school. For the first month and half, I was constantly sleep deprived, sleeping at 11 became early rather than late for me. I couldn’t stay awake in classes even if I was interested in the topic or if I knew if it was important. Not to mention I’d make idiotic mistakes…like 10 divided by 40 is 4… to cut to the chase, health is more important than school, regardless of what our dreams, social pressures, and College Confidential presents to us, we need to remember that we are human thus susceptible to impediments and our states of well being must be fair for our accomplishments to be. You got this, and congrats on your new record! The obstacles in your life now will only go toward your improvement, for you won’t let them drag you down! It will help a few years from now when you’re at an elite university living life like a boss! Also I don’t think colleges care about a few attendeance inconsistencies especially if you’re application is excellent in grades, scores, ECs, etc… YOU CAN DO IT!
Did any of you guys get an email from Envision regarding a Global Youth Innovators Impact Through Leadership program. It’s connected to George Mason University but the sessions are held at Harvard, Emory, UChicago and UCLA.
@bubblylaugh I look forward to getting those emails so I can reply. I’ve sent “literally no,” “u can’t have my money,” “andrew what r we,” and the Pacer introduction.
After the second one, I got a formal email from the program saying “we’re sorry to hear that you can’t join us this summer…” or something like that.
I don’t know if this is for you guys too, but this was my last year of taking required PE. I just took my LAST Pacer and my LAST other fitness tests. I’m so happy I get to drop PE next year lmao.
Last night I came home exhausted. I went to my room (at 7:00 pm) to drop off my backpack and next think I knew, it was 2 AM. What a weird evening lol.
This is our scale:
95-100 - 4.0
94 - 3.9
93 - 3.8
92 - 3.7
91 - 3.6
90 - 3.5
… And so on
I also just found out that our school’s engineering teacher is leaving and going to the new high school in our county that will open next year. :(( The new high school is also going to be enrolling a lot of the students from our school, specifically from the class of 2018 and 2019, who live in the new school’s boundaries. Which means that our graduating classes are going to be smaller. I honestly don’t know if this is a good or bad thing, but a lot of my friends won’t be here next year because of the new school. It’s just gonna be really weird next year. 12 teachers from our school are going to the new school next year, including my Chemistry teacher. Even my dad wants my little brother, who will be a freshman next year, to go there, but he can’t because we don’t live in the boundary. My dad doesn’t want him to go to the school that we live closest to due to its high gang activity and teen pregnancy rate, and I don’t blame him. A lot of the people from that school went to my middle school, and I am going on that emotional rollercoaster ever again. My dad even wanted him to go to my school, but my brother associated my school with “too many rednecks”. There are a lot of rednecks at my school, bu they’re that bad. Some of them are my friends and don’t really fully fit the “redneck” stereotype. My brother also wants to go to the high school closest to us because all of his friends are going there, even though he’ll probably lose half of them by sophomore year. I know that by experience.
@savagestudent7 Lucky. ;~; I have to take gym all four years of high school. Senior year is a bit better though, since we have a choice on we can take, and it only lasts one semester.
@bubblylaugh Thank you for the encouragement! It really helped. Sometimes, I just need to take a step back and breath. It’s just that I’ve had this problem of getting enough sleep since I was 13. I feel like if I don’t this solved soon, it’ll really hurt me later on in life. My future job will likely depend on my ability to wake up at 5am. But I’m thinking too far in the future.
@savagestudent7 I’m a sophomore, but am currently in HPE I, a class for freshmen. I will be taking HPE II, the sophomore class that I was supposed to be in this year, this summer. After I take this summer class, I never have to take PE again. ^:)^
@apple1893 That happens to me every time I get back home from track practice or a track meet. It’s 6pm and I fall asleep, then it’s 4am.
My track meets usually finish like 8 PM 
and then I don’t have much time to do homework after my shower and dinner
Is it worth it to do a dual enrollment program? I’m not sure because there’s not specific classes I want to take and if I do the program, I will have to replace some of my AP classes with the DE class. I’ve heard that colleges prefer AP classes. However, if I do it, I will get to transfer 1-2 years of credits and graduate college 1-2 years earlier which would save a lot of money. So it’s… graduate early and save money or take AP classes and a normal schedule which may help me get into a better college?