<p>Which would help my chances more? Staying in my current high school where I would most probably end up being around 7/1015ish ppl?</p>
<p>Or going to this special high school called TAMS where I would earn two years of high school and college credit and would probably come out with 90 credits and math courses in diff equations/linear algebra/modern algebra/ mult. calc/ vect. calc/etc.? The TAMS high school costs like $18000 for the two years tho. I should be able to get some sort of scholarship but still.</p>
<p>I will come out with Lin. alg/mult. calc at my normal high school.</p>
<p>This is for Ivies/ MIT</p>
<p>What colleges are you looking at?</p>
<p>“This is for Ivies/ MIT”</p>
<p>btw not sure anymore about medical or engineering which is why I am still looking at MIT</p>
<p>Just do what’s right for you.
If you desire to take courses and whatever your current school offers, there is no point in moving to TAMS.</p>
<p>However if you feel that TAMS will benefit you and you feel like there’s something that your school is missing that TAMS offers, then go for it!
Just do what makes you happy, don’t try to make choices just to make yourself look good at colleges. Simply just try your hardest in school in classes and extracurriculars. It’s all about showing your passion! :)</p>
<p>If you can handle it, go to TAMS</p>
<p>Colleges want to see that you’re pushing yourself. If TAMS has better, more challenging classes, go there</p>
<p>I’m a current TAMS student.</p>
<p>On whether you should do TAMS, there’s a couple of things you need to think about. First off, how good is your current school at getting kids into college? Judging by your school size and the fact that you’re considering TAMS, I’m guessing you’re from Plano (East?). If so, TAMS won’t really improve your chances. Plano is as good as or better at getting kids into Ivies from what I’ve seen, though maybe a little worse when it comes to MIT. If you’re not from Plano, you’re just going to have to judge for yourself. TAMS is not something that’ll magically make your application stand out.</p>
<p>There are some major drawbacks from the college application perspective, the biggest being it’s definitely very difficult to get good recs from the professors here, as the classes (especially bio and chem) are huge and the professors aren’t as interested in getting to know you (if at all). </p>
<p>Be warned, just because all those high level classes are available doesn’t mean you can take them. If you’re currently taking Algebra II, then you will not be able to take anything above calculus and lin al until your very last semester, and if you want to take many math electives.</p>
<p>That being said, there are also some nice things. The thing that tipped it for me was the ease of doing research here. The professors treat you like any other undergraduate, or even preferentially. I actually just submitted a scientific paper for publishing, and I know a few other tams kids that are doing the same.</p>
<p>One last note, if you are from plano and ranked so high, TAMS will probably be actually easier for you than your old school and you’ll have a lot less work to do. Whether this is a good thing or bad thing is for you to decide.</p>
<p>If you want to know anything more about TAMS (the dorm, food, curfew, etc) just pm me.</p>