<p>haha, rachael525, planning on dominating the tag cloud? Have you seen the “hilsa was here” link?..it made me laugh. </p>
<p>@tmanneopen: I would probably cut sports first because unless you’re getting recruited, spending that much time when you’re already stressed gets kinda frustrating (at least for me, it was). But then again, sports shows that you’re not a bookworm, and that you’re more well-rounded.</p>
<p>I completely stole her idea. Shhh.</p>
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<p>I don’t think it’ll hurt you. People who don’t play sports get into good schools all the time, for one thing.</p>
<p>What would you suggest if I wanted to get into top tier schools, such as MIT and Cornell? But, in the end, I think I will end up dropping swimming, but I’ll still do it outside of school. Thanks guys!</p>
<p>tmanneopen: Do what you love the most. Seriously, all that college admissions crap seems so stupid sometimes. You don’t want to be stuck with extra currics that you are going to grow to hate, when you have so many great choices. If your going to dedicate so many hours to something, you really should pick what your going to love participating in the most.</p>
<p>^True, if you have to do something that you don’t like just so you can impress a college, it raises questions on whether or not the college is truly worth it.</p>
<p>@livesforsummer: very good advice. </p>
<p>I kind of came to that same realization because I wasn’t enjoying some of my EC’s so I decided to drop them. OK, it might not look good, but I MUCH rather be doing something I enjoy. </p>
<p>Think about it long term. College is only 4 years, but say you have an undying passion for chess or something but you think other activites look better. It’s likely you’re going to still be doing chess 50 years from now, but whatever you joined just for college isn’t going to stay with you the rest of your life and create happiness.</p>
<p>Concentrate on something that makes you happy and furthers you and your interests , as opposed to something that will look good on college apps. It’ll be much more beneficial long term.</p>
<p>Also, if it’s something you enjoy doing, you’ll naturally do better at it. And that’s what colleges want to see. They want you to be good at what you do and love what your doing.</p>
<p>ughh i dont even want to think of my schedule for next year haha…it’s going to be sooo hard…</p>
<p>i’m going to take
ap calc AB
ap lang
ap environmental
ap spanish
us history (not ap)</p>
<p>i’m going to community college because i already ****ed up my gpa</p>
<p>hey tangerinetomato im going to community college as well (to take dual-enrollment courses that is)
calc bc
apush
ap jap
ap bio
physics b
ap lit
psych
env sci</p>
<p>Hey guys, sorry to keep asking for help, but everyone here gives such good advice. =]</p>
<p>Anyway, I have a scheduling problem, where AP English is only being offered periods 3 and 7/8, which would be latin 3 and AP Chem. So which should I drop, AP Chem, Physics, or Latin 3?</p>
<p>Pros and Cons of dropping AP Chem:
Pros:
<p>Pros and Cons of dropping Physics:
Pros:
<p>Pros and Cons of dropping Latin 3:
Pros:
<p>So what would you guys suggest?</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: I think I would probably drop physics if I were you. Colleges will still note it on your senior year transcript, and it’s good to show consistency with a language (especially if it’s good for your GPA), and AP sciences are more impressive junior year.</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: seems like you’re interested in Chemistry so go ahead and take it along with physics. Then take Latin 3 over the summer and like you said, and if there’s a chance no one’s going to take it senior year then why risk the chance and take it now. Dropping Latin 3 is the obvious choice IMO.</p>
<p>Is it just me, or does CC make anyone else very cynical and pessimistic about their college admissions chances…</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: Definitely take AP Chemistry. At my school, AP Chemistry is one of the hardest classes, so Latin might be a nice GPA boost :)</p>
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<p>I think CC does that for everyone. CC is incredibly humbling. Some of the “Chance Me” posts make me feel like an idiot. I just don’t know how some of EC’s and stats of some CC applicants are possible.</p>
<p>Yeah…it’s like no matter how hard one works or tries, that level is unattainable…</p>
<p>Ah well :P</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: drop latin3, junior year is no time to be slacking off, double science = stands out</p>
<p>tmanneopen: drop Physics, it’s not AP and you need at least another year of a language. Just take AP Physics senior year. btw, i’m dropping swim next year too haha</p>
<p>tsubomi: you’re not one to be talking :P</p>
<p>@tmanneopen: Completely agree with mulberrypie.</p>
<p>On a different note, I wish I could stay away from CC. It’s an extremely bad addiction. :[</p>
<p>^ CC= bad, very bad. But also good.</p>
<p>Still haven’t figured out why it’s so addicting.</p>
<p>Haha thanks mulberrypie…but after looking at some of the people on CC –> O_o</p>
<p>CC is very addicting, freshman year I would look at it occasionally, sophomore year, more and more (especially with this thread :] )…then next year I need to promise myself not to go on it so much…</p>
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<p>I think we’re all secretly masochists.</p>
<p>Next year, like I said before, I’m aiming for 15 minutes or less of CC a day. We’ll see… I’ve been completely sucked in this past year. >_<</p>
<p>But CC definitely has its good aspects. It’s nice to be informed, for one thing.</p>