The next 2 years

CantConcentrate
Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:35:30 +0000

@SiggaardAndersen: I appreciate the response, and it does make complete sense to me. At this point, I wouldn’t think that it’d be necessary to take the AP Bio exam for the reasons that you yourself listed. After a year, the information would have to be relearned and would thus be a waste of time (unless, of course, you are dead-set on taking it).
You say that you want to go to University of Washington (one of my prospective schools also). Have you taken the SAT/ACT yet? If so, what are your scores?

By all means, if you perform better by yourself, go to the online school route. There would be no reason for you to force yourself to go to high school just for the sake of going to a school. You’ll have to be prepared to work really hard, however. Assuming that you had a 2.5 GPA freshman year and a 3.8 GPA sophomore year, you currently have a 3.15 cumulative GPA. If you get a 4.0 next year, you’ll have a 3.4 by the time you begin applying to college. While this isn’t necessarily bad, it isn’t great either. To counteract this, you should plan to write excellent essays and have good SAT/ACT scores.

With your prospective online education, will a teacher(s) be present on the online portal? That is, will actual teachers be grading your work and looking over everything (I’ll assume that they will be present)? If not, however, I would once again recommend going to the high school. For college apps, teacher and counselor recommendations are important, and thus forming a personal relationship with them would be beneficial.