Is Science/Math unpopular in your school?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>As a science/math person, I feel like science and math classes are way unpopular than English and History.</p>

<p>At my school, there are many kids who take AP English while not so many in AP Bio/chem/calculus, and there’s also a special “IB program school” that is kind of like an alternative school within school, but they’re totally not focused into science/math (they make you take same science/math classes in the regular program). And there aren’t many students who are considering of majoring in science at all!</p>

<p>Is it same in your school too?</p>

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<p>Nope. It’s pretty equal. Maybe a slight science bias, but for the most part even. :D</p>

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<p>My school is very science/math oriented. All such AP classes (ie Chem, Physics, Bio, Stats, Calc) are filled to the max while the AP Literature classes are only ¾ full at best.</p>

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<p>I don’t think my school is orientated at all. I guess it’s a mix then :)</p>

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<p>Yes. I’m the only probable straight math/science major I know of. The closest thing is usually premed.</p>

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<p>Seeing as it is the “… School of Science and Mathematics”</p>

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<p>besides the future business majors, my school is bursting with people going into biochem and engineering. a lot of them will still take ap english to balance their transcript though.</p>

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<p>school in general is unpop at my school… but yea i think more kids take ap lit than math/science simply b/c its pretty easy at my school</p>

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<p>Haha my district is soo math/science-y that parents get mad at the school board for allocating money for science equipment rather than lights on our football field (though our record was 0-6 this season anyway…)</p>

<p>There are more people in honors/AP history/English because 1) they’re easier to BS, 2) they’re less dorky (for the supremacists among us), and 3) they’re easier than the math/science courses we have.</p>

<p>Note: this only applies to MY school. I don’t mean that the humanities are easier than the sciences in general; it’s just that the teachers we have are pretty consistent by department.</p>

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<p>A lot more people here take Bio AP than Lit AP.</p>

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<p>It’s quite biased towards science in my school, especially biology.</p>

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<p>I go to a medical magnet school though, so Bio, A and P, Clinical Rotation are popular, obviously.</p>

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<p>It is only popular to a degree. My school is really big (>4000 people) so there is a portion that are interested in science/math but not a lot compared to other scores. We also dont have many people entering/winning the big science/math competitions. besides, my school is a performing arts magnet.</p>

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<p>We have only like 800 in all (200/class). We have LOTS of Science Fair. We always go to Siemens-Westinghouse and International Science Fairs.</p>

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<p>only students with research project go to the regional fair and that is like <20 students/ 4000 in the school and about 3 this year applied for Siemesn and Intel sceince talent search but i would ahve to admit, this is a week year. Last year we had really strong science seniors.</p>

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<p>so-so</p>

<p>no ap comp a
no ap comp ab
no ap psych
no ap envi sci
no ap calc bc
no ap physics b</p>

<p>no ap lit
no ap (foreign language) lit</p>

<p>kind of weird cuz 14 people are in ap physics c while 100 are in ap stats/calc ab…40 in ap bio while 100 are in ap chem. 50 are in ap english while 150 are in ap world. ap us has 100 while ap gov has 25</p>

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<p>our ap english classes are bursting with people, so are ap physics and ap calc and ap psych. ap chem has fewer though. i think it really depend on the teacher.</p>

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<p>When I was in school (all-girls Catholic school, eeeeewww), it was totally biased in favour of people who were good at languages and humanities, and this shows in terms of what we went to college to study. Out of a graduating class of 117, only 4 of us went for science-related majors (CS - me, the others went for mechanical engineering, medicine (6 year undergrad program here), human nutrition)</p>

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<p>science is definitely unpopular at my school. Math too but not as much. There are only 2 other people in my AP physics class. Ill prbly be the only person in my schools history to finish 4 science APs, or at least the 2nd person to finish 3 by my senior year. Computer science is especially unpopular. Our schools knitting club has several members and yet not one person joined the computer programming club i tried to start. I guess that pretty much says it all…</p>

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<p>Yeah…very unpopular.
Math club? No
Maybe compete in a math league? No.
Science Olympiad (I’m in a state that doesn’t have one…)? No.</p>

<p>I really wish I could switch schools sometimes b/c it is all FOOTBALL, Basketball…and then SOCIAL SCIENCE…and then math and science hidden in the back</p>