<p>i want to go to middlebury and i love languages… but i think it’ll look good just to have another math. what looks better… AP US (continuing form AP EURO) or just regular us and ap stat. If they ask, i could say that there wasn’t enough space in my schedule… however i will be taking precalc over the summer. i guess Stat is unecessary i just thought it’d look good to have a math AT SCHOOL for 4 years… other than that. i’m dying to get into the impossible-to-get-into middlebury, and i want to do as much possible to do it.</p>
<p>You could ask your counselor to note that AP Stat wouldn’t fit in your schedule. You could self-study AP Stat, and it’re supposed to be a pretty easy exam to self-learn</p>
<p>if i took ap stat, i’d have regular NOT ap US 0 period… so it’d fit.
if colleges would ask why i didn’t take ap… i could say that i wanted to take a math and that they didn’t ahve 0 period maths</p>
<p>Do whatever feels best, I guess? Only you know.</p>
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<p>I agree. Used to play soccer, never again. For fun I might though.</p>
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<p>I’m doing Cross Country (V) next year. It’s tiring but fun, and not as competitive as track.</p>
<p>I did Varsity soccer btw.</p>
<p>I don’t know why I felt the need to capitalize the ‘V’. Oh well.</p>
<p>I’ll be doing V hockey, and hopefully we’ll have funding for lacrosse too. If we have that I’ll be playing varsity.</p>
<p>^^^^^Budget cuts suck.</p>
<p>^ Ya, they really do.</p>
<p>My school’s problem this past year was that there was another school opening in the area so all of the schools in the district had to give money to the new one to help fund clubs. It drained a lot of us. The debate coach put the team in debt so she wouldn’t have to give them any money.</p>
<p>Yeah, my old elementary school was shut down a while back and all the kids had to go elsewhere in the school district. Now in high school, all the arts and music programs are getting ridiculously low funding so a lot of kids have to use old instruments, outdated equipment, and what not.</p>
<p>^ I don’t think our Band/Orchestra programs get funding anymore…lol</p>
<p>We have some really nice instruments (namely my tuba(s)) but we also have some horribly crappy ones that can’t be repolaced because we don’t have the money.</p>
<p>I think in my school you have to buy your instruments…</p>
<p>I guess funding is okay at my school, but their are 2 high schools in the district and the other one is A LOT smaller, so they have REALLLLY small sports teams (10 ppl on their girls XC team, lol) </p>
<p>Therefore, they are redistricting, which SUCKS, but my class was “grandfathered” in so it’s alll goood</p>
<p>We have to buy our foreign-language workbooks at my school. It’s so strange and random.</p>
<p>I actually don’t really feel the low budget in too many spots. They are cutting a lot of classes, which is a real shame. We won’t have AP english next year, for example. But our school is funded very well, considering the circumstances. Our hockey team isn’t funded by the school (it’s very expensive and complicated) but it is affiliated and most schools have a team. We get letters and all. Lacrosse never was a school sport. Most schools in the area picked it up when it became a PIAA sanctioned sport, and they can’t play club teams, which is what we were. So we can’t have a team until the school can afford it, which will hopefully be in the next two years before I graduate. </p>
<p>Music is funded very well in our district. Both high schools have great tradition musically, and our district is known to have the best music in the area. I’m not sure about the other school, but I know our band also has a parent organization that helps a ton with funding. </p>
<p>Our newspaper is also doing very well financially. I know we finished $1,000 over this year, which is good. That might see big funding cuts though. We’ll have to see.</p>
<p>Funding at my school sucks. I go private and we get no government money. Everything is paid through tuition and donations.</p>
<p>The tuition of like 15k a year goes just to teacher salaries (which are much lower than that of public school teachers). The donations pay for everything else. (Buildings, maintenance, sports, elementary school field trips, etc.)</p>
<p>In grades 7-12, we have to buy all of our textbooks and supplies. That’s usually about $500 for grades 7-9, and about $600-800 in grades 10-12 depending on the classes you take. (IE: AP books are like $150 each. o.O)</p>
<p>Our cheerleading squad didn’t even get funding for new uniforms this year, so we had to wear different colored uniforms. (Six of us had new blue uniforms, about four of us had red uniforms, and the last eight or so just had what was left over between old blue and white.)</p>
<p>The thing about it is… sports are required at my school, so people were very upset that we didn’t have uniforms. We don’t cut people… so we had to take 18 girls… yet the school only gave us 12 uniforms. o.O</p>
<p>Anyways… Like I said, we’re required to play one team sport a year from grades 7-12, so I play field hockey and cheerleading… both varsity.</p>
<p>I love it. Though I’m probably not going to do field hockey this year. I might pick up volleyball instead though?</p>
<p>Okay, I made a vow to study for the SAT over the summer. Now it’s summer, and I have the Blue Book in front of me, but I can’t get myself to work with it. Haha, anyone want to help me get through this? =]</p>
<p>I was thinking about doing a psychoanalysis of a practice SAT to find out how the SAT works. What do you think?</p>
<p>Maybe you could try to do one or two practice tests a week?</p>
<p>(Do them the same time(s) each week, like a schedule.)</p>
<p>That is a good idea, but the Blue Book only has 8 practice tests. I only want to use College Board practice tests because they’re the closest you can get to the real SAT. Hmm I’ll just try my psychoanalysis idea. =] I know it sounds strange, but maybe it’ll work. I’ll let all of you know.</p>