<p>My school is extremely well-rounded due to IB Diploma requirements. Everyone has this distribution:</p>
<p>Language A (first language)
Language B (second language) or second Language A
Lab science
Social science
Mathematics
Elective (art, music, or a second subject from one of the other groups)
Creative elective (art, music, drama, journalism)
Theory of Knowledge</p>
<p>The more science-oriented people take two sciences, but other than that there really is no clear division. Physics/chem seems like the most popular combination; I think I’m the only person taking chem/bio, and I don’t know that anyone takes physics/bio.</p>
<p>sr6622: “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>
<p>You just described my school right there.</p>
<p>thisyearsgirl:
I wish our IB program was like that. At my school, you have no choice but take bunch of special history, language arts, philosophy starting from their FRESHMEN year, while just setting minimal requirement lfor science/math ike take one AP science class and pre-calc… and of course, if you decided NOT to go to IB, you don’t even have to do them at all!</p>
<p>Well, I guess it’s a good thing that the program still offers that kind of requirement… and thank god I’m not in that program…</p>
<p>NorthWestLover, that really doesn’t make sense at all… one would think that getting a basic foundation in science is more important than taking philosophy (or something really specialized) so early.</p>
<p>My school’s pre-IB curriculum is very science-heavy. In ninth grade everyone has this schedule:</p>
<p>Language A
Language B/A2
Math
Chemistry
Physics
Biology
(yes, all three sciences at the same time!)
History
Geography
2 electives (art, music, drama, journalism)
Life Skills (joke class)</p>
<p>In 10th grade you get to drop one science or geography, otherwise it stays the same.</p>
<p>I complained about it at the time, but it really does give you a good foundation in… well, everything.</p>
<p>The math and science curriculum at my school is horrible because the students are not as strong in those subjects. The normal graduate from my school takes, most of these classes ARE REQUIRED (small school no options): </p>
<p>AP European History (10th)
AP Spanish Language (depends on fluency)
AP US History (11th)
AP English Language (11th)
AP Art History (11th or 12th)
AP US Government (12th)
AP English Literature (12th)
AP Biology or Chemistry (not both, only 12th) </p>
<p>The only other AP class is Spanish Literature. As you can see I’ve been crippled as a math and science-oriented person at my school. However, robotics club is a huge thing at our school and around 20 percent of our school involved in some form of robotics/engineering.</p>
<p>My school has almost the same program as thisyearsgirl. </p>
<p>In 9-10 we do the IGCSE program which is
Mathematics
English
German
French or Spanish
History
Geography
Co-ordinated Sciences: a mix of Physics, Biology and Chemistry
Art, Music or Drama</p>
<p>Then in 11-12 we do IB
Language A
Language B
Mathematics
Science
Social Science
TOK</p>
<p>But generally people at my school lean more to humanities, especially languages, because we are an international school. Math and science are hated by about 60% of the grade.</p>
<p>science is popular in our senior class, but htats it. hte rest ofthe school is kind of stupid and hates school, but half of our class is going into the medical field</p>
<p>i go to an all girls catholic school… so although most of the girls are very proficient in math & science, most of us tend to lean toward the humanities</p>
<p>At my school, there’s a huge split between two groups - the art kids and the science kids. You have to keep in mind that I go to an alternative high school, though, so it’s not like anyone’s really taking intensive advanced classes in any field (my friend Katie is possibly the first student to be taking Calculus in the last five years). We’ve given at least one graduate every year to the Colorado School of Mines, so there’s always a pretty good interest in science - probably because the main science/math teacher, Bob, is the coolest teacher in the school.</p>
<p>My school is indifferent to any subject. Do well, that’s what’s on their mind. I like to think that my school is well-rounded. But, high school curriculums, mine’s, anyways, have superficial teaching styles, givining only brief overviews in most subject area. It’s hard to get into the material, unless you have a natural interest from a young age. There’s certain topics, such as the Enlightenment or cell biology, that you’d like to get more in-depth, but can’t because of time constraints. </p>
<p>Sidenote: I’m finding Biology to be my most interresting class this year, so I can be wrong.</p>
<p>yeahh i think mine is, since im attending a mathamatics and science school hence the name MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL FOR MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE(MSMS) lol</p>
<p>Biology is taken by heaaaps of people in our school. Even the humanities students take biology because it is considered the easiest of the 3 sciences (which may… be… true…?)</p>
<p>In my Physics class, there are 30 students and 3 a girls, incl me.
Hardly any girls take physics. And the girls that do are either Asian or indian.</p>
<p>Our school is split into 3 cateogies - sciences/ humanities/ art.</p>
<p>Most art students’s schedules have no sciences/maths/humanities whatso ever. My friend’s schedule is - art painting, art photography, art design, graphics and design, design technology.</p>
<p>there are probably 100 people in honors english/history at my school, and maybe 30 in honors math and science. english/history classes are definitely easier, but I think that kind of happens because there are so many people in those classes that are just…less academically focused than in the math and science classes. But our math and science classes are like 2/3 girls, which doesn’t seem to happen most places.</p>