<p>honors anat & phys 2, ap calc bc, ap mandarin, ap psych, ap bio, and ap lit.</p>
<p>Awful decision? Awful decision.</p>
<p>wow this thread is great !! all of you sound like amazing people who have no reason to be rejected from penn (: i hope everyone here gets in; im only a sophomore, but ive had my heart set on penn since 8th grade and am visiting one of their economics classes at CAS before my winter break. hopefully ill get to meet you all as my upperclassmen at penn (;</p>
<p>AP Calc, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics, AP English…it’s really hard to take more than 4 AP’s a year at my school …next semester, i’m taking civics and economics online along with APEs in the same period…i begged my counselor to let me do that, because otherwise I’d have to give up an AP =(</p>
<p>Is it normal to only have six classes?
How do schedules work in other school systems?</p>
<p>ib eng hl, ib math hl, ib bio hl, ib american history hl, ib chem sl, ib spanish sl, and theory of knowledge</p>
<p>i got really lazy this year. last year i had 7 APs on top of the 7 ib classes. but this year, screw ap’s. hell, screw school if i get into upenn lol</p>
<p>Aw,
@OnlyPenn- You’re awesome, that’s how I was. I hope the same thing :)</p>
<p>At my school, honors and AP classes are weighed the same (in our QPA, quality point average, which is basically our weighted GPA). Do you think colleges will still favor APs over honors?</p>
<p>Also, can someone explain what IB is to me?</p>
<p>laodicean- Me too. They’re both worth 6 points (I know, Baltimore County is strange).</p>
<p>IB is just basically a 2 year (4 with Pre-IB fresh/soph) program where you go through internal assessments throughout the school year as well as external assessments in May of your senior year (like AP). </p>
<p>I took both classes and basically, IB classes require more effort in school but have easier tests whereas AP classes require less effort but have harder tests.</p>
<p>At my school, there are 4 classes a semester, 8 total classes a year. APs are usually year-long which means you really can’t fit more than 4 a year in your schedule, unless you’re taking the easier semester long AP gov’t, psych, etc. So, there’s a limitation…hopefully Penn will understand that.</p>
<p>i only have 6 academic classes, and i go to a top-ranked private school in philly suburbs (:</p>
<p>Sigh… If I get in I’m going to go around asking people
ARE YOU SWEETCOOKIE?
ARE YOU LAODICEAN?</p>
<p>HAHA ARE YOU MYLIFE?<br>
they’re gonna think you’re crazy</p>
<p>At my school, we just have seven classes every day, but after every seven days of class we have two block days, which are basically when one day of classes are stretched over a two-day period.</p>
<p>Systems like these are odd wherever you go.</p>
<p>Aw thanks @empaige! Has anyone here ever applied for one of penn’s summer programs? Specifically the PreCollege Program? If so, does it help you in admissions even the slightest bit? I think that one gives college credit, but does it help really?</p>
<p>My school implemented a new schedule this year.</p>
<p>8 classes, 6 of which meet a day. (classes 1-6 on A days, classes 1-8, drop 3 and 4 on B days, classes 1-8, drop 5 and 6 on C days, classes 3-8 on D days). Pretty weird, but prior to that (my freshman-junior years), it was a 6 day cycle with 7 classes meeting every day.</p>
<p>And @mylife, hahahaha we might as well exchange names and add each other on FB.</p>
<p>Ah, gotcha! My school is 8 classes, but I go to an music, art, and technology magnet school so we’re required to take two classes a year in our area of study, and then 4-6 academic classes. Thus, why I am laden with confusion.</p>
<p>You guys know why Penn is the best school?
Our sense of community is characterized on CC even BEFORE we’ve been admitted:</p>
<p>Brown ED thread: 136 posts
Columbia ED thread: 59 posts
Cornell ED thread: 172 posts
Dartmouth ED thread: 96 posts
Harvard EA thread: 531 posts
Princeton EA thread: 112 posts
Yale EA thread: 236 posts
PENN ED THREAD: 538 posts</p>
<p>WE WIN!</p>
<p>My favorite to ask would be the real names. For example, running around asking “Are you Aaron Burr? Are you Peter Griffin?” Then we’d sound truly insane.</p>
<p>It makes me kind of bummed, though, because we’re becoming quasi pals, and in twelve days, we’ll be inevitably separated :(</p>
<p>@empaige</p>
<p>Ideally, we won’t :)</p>