Merry Christmas y’all!!! 
This Year:
AP EURO
Honors Chem
Honors Precalc
Honors English 2
Accounting 1
Spanish 3
Gym
(basically max of what is available to me )
@equationlover Does your school not have dual credit Calc 1? If it’s an option, I’d take pre-calc in school and Calc 1 over the summer.
If not, I would take Pre-Calc in school and over the summer audit a Calc 1 class at your local community college. Talk to the BC calc teacher about how you could prove your knowledge in AB calc. Maybe they’d let you take a previous AP exam? CC classes won’t cover everything, so be on top of your game.
I recommend not skipping pre-calc because if you end up struggling in AB, your schedule might not allow you to drop down as easily as going from BC to AB.
@literallyliteral I plan to be an engineering major, astrophysics major, or mathematics education major. All of them use a lot of mathematics.
At my school, AB is a prerequisite for BC. I’ve already looked at the option of taking precalculus at the CC, but it is not offered in the summer. (Only calc 1 is).
So taking it through summer school at my high school would be the only option. I would still take a class for it. I could also get a tutor to help as well.
The only reason why waiting to take calculus 1 in the summer next year is not desirable for me is because:
A.) I might not be given the green light to take BC, even though I could take a test for it.
B.) It’s not an online class, so I would have to attend classes at the CC. This is a problem because the summer before my junior year, I plan on taking a pre-engineering program at a local state college and it’s for almost two months.
C.) It would not look as rigorous as taking AB, and colleges may wonder why I didn’t just take precalculus in the summer.
I have heard precalculus is basically a combination of algebra 2 and geometry concepts with a little bit more advanced topics taught. Has that been your experience in precalculus? @Hamlon
@equationlover There’s just so much information to get through and my full-year class was still learning new info up to the final exam. Knowing Pre-Calc really well eases your transition to Calculus. Also, I don’t think universities would make a fuss about you taking Calc 1 at a CC. Calc BC’s exam has an AB subscore, so knowing AB well is a must for the course already. If you do well in BC, it would be assumed that you learned something useful in your Calc 1 course.
Oh! I forgot about the AB subscore! I’ll go with what you suggested then. Btw, aren’t you planning on majoring in engineering?? Tell me how that goes! I’ve got just this year and then have to start thinking about college lol. :)) @Hamlon
@equationlover Right now the plan is Computer Science (or Physics) and a minor in Africana Studies actually. Probably going to change though. I’m indecisive. Also, you’re welcome. PM me if you still need advice.
Class of 2020 here! This is my schedule for this year, as a freshman:
Varsity Tennis
Business Economics
Precalculus (Algebra 1 in seventh grade, Geometry in eighth, then tested out of Advanced Algebra 2 before freshman year began)
Honors World Studies
Pre-AP Earth and Space Science, and Pre-AP Bio for the second semester
Honors English 9
French 1
My father’s a former calc professor, so he’s doing his utmost to teach me Calc BC in time to take the AP test as a self-study this May. In addition, I’m independently studying AP English and Composition so I can test out of Honors English 10 for next year, and I’ve been working on a few writing competitions outside of school (Scholastic, LAL, Davidson Fellows, etc). I do DECA, debate (sometimes CX, but more often Public Forum), Science Olympiad, Quiz Bowl, and National Science Bowl.
This is a crazy amount of stress, but I come from a very poor family of immigrants, with my father already in possession of a PhD. As soon as my mother gets hers (sometime in 2017), federal regulations will close in on us. I’m afraid we might become homeless—it’s up to me, the eldest, to take the brunt of the burden off my parents by being the best I can possibly be, and advocating for their citizenships once I come of age. Harvard is my dream, but, without a full-ride scholarship, I don’t know if I can make it a reality.
On the topic of majors, I literally have no idea what to do D: I have a lot of freedom regarding my major because I’m planning to go to med school, which don’t really care at all about your actual major as long as you do well on the MCAT and have a good GPA.
I’m interested in Biology/Biochem (which is the ‘normal’ route for a pre-med), but I’m also SUPER interested in Philosophy. I also want to minor in French if available. Other (some similar) majors I’m interested in are microbiology, immunology, psychology, neuroscience, even statistics is interesting for me.
So lost, I literally couldn’t choose if you told me I had to choose now.
And on a different topic, I’m definitely going to go after a Varsity letter for Track this season. I missed out on the Varsity letter by 3 seconds in XC. Our school is EXTREMELY competitive in these two sports (6th overall in state this year, 2nd in our division), so it’s already hard enough.
@SiriuslyJoking I think you belong on this thread lol: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1861377-high-school-class-of-2020.html#latest
At the moment I want to major in something like economics, business, or marketing and minor in French. Maybe law school (but I don’t want to be in debt forever) or journalism.
I want to major in some sort of engineering, and I have for a while. I change my mind between branches though. At first it was electrical. Last year it was computer science. This year, I’m leaning more to civil/environmental. Glad I still have a long time to decide!
My GC said I should be an engineer, but I’d make a terrible engineer; things always seem to break around me. 
I love the idea of majoring in math. What I’ve read about the theoretical side of CS is fascinating, so I might end up doing some of that.
@OMPursuit That is the exact reason why I LOVE computer science!!! The theoretical side of mathematics that it involves.
A very common double major in the CS department is Computer Science and Mathematics, because CS embodies so much mathematics behind it.
Computer scientists actually are engineers, just not in the sense that most think of. (In fact, most colleges have computer science housed in their engineering college…) There are B.A. programs for CS if you aren’t the mathematical type or have more interests in the arts or natural sciences.
Computer scientists use problem solving all the time in their work and come up with creative solutions to problems. There are also software developers as well.
(Sorry; I am a VERY huge nerd on this subject, lol!) 
Guys, 2016 sucks.
For those of you who may have been living under pretty huge rocks, Carrie Fisher died.
I’m kind of in denial, actually.
Debbie Reynolds just died too wtf
get me off the 2016 wild ride
Fellow sophomore here! Checking in after lurking on this thread for God knows how long…
Graduating in 2019 with the IB diploma (hopefully) and I’ll be applying to US schools from overseas! Not a citizen/PR, so the process might be more difficult for me, sighs.
Speaking about math, I’m considering a major in it — although I’m not Olympiad-level good, haha. I’ve actually been looking into theoretical CS, but I haven’t written a line of code in my life.
Also super ready to get out of 2016, lol. It’s been mediocre at best and I can’t wait to move to a new school next year!
@VaporeonKid Cool, where are you from?