I am currently an 8th grader looking at my options for high school. After looking through my high school’s curriculum guide, I decided to assemble a tentative course plan. I’m only making it for 2 years, since my high school is currently debating the implementation of an IB program. I’d like to get some feedback on it.
English
9th grade: Enriched English 9
10th grade: Enriched English 10
Math
8th grade: Algebra 1
9th grade: Honors Geometry
Summer between 9th and 10th grade: CTY Algebra 2 Honors and Trigonometry Honors or community college College Algebra with Trigonometry (as a prerequisite to Advanced Chemistry)
10th grade: Honors Precalculus and AP Statistics
Science
9th grade: Enriched Biology
10th grade: Advanced Chemistry
Social Studies
9th grade: Enriched Global History 9
10th grade: AP World History
French
8th grade: French 1
9th grade: French 2
10th grade: French 3
Rigor is realize to what your school’s hardest schedule offered is. However, without knowing that, it’s look great to me!
@Madeline25 Sorry for not mentioning that earlier- this is the most rigorous schedule I can take. The only exceptions are that French 3, unlike Spanish 3, doesn’t offer an enriched version, and that some people take Algebra 1 in 7th grade.
That looks pretty good, fam! What are your electives? Make sure you’re meeting your state’s graduation requirements.
@awesomepolyglot Thanks! My school doesn’t really offer electives below 11th grade, and these aren’t the only classes I’ll be taking; just the important ones. I’ll also take PE throughout, and I’ll use Music In Our Lives in 9th grade to fulfill the fine arts requirement.
@shiftportal have you been accepted to CTY yet? Have you taken a class there before? You can do like a tentative admission thing that allows you to take only one class with them, but you have to submit an SAT score or IQ test score. I took the Alg. 2 through CTY and tbh it was one of the worst classes I have ever taken. I would recommend taking it at a community college, because of the GPA boost and because you will actually have a professor that you ask questions. Professor Burger does not answer your questions and if he could, it would be in the form of a 90’s song or a corny joke.
@manspeak2u No, I haven’t. I do have IQ scores, however, and I’m fairly confident I would qualify. That does seem bad, however. My main concern with the community college route is placement. At our school, we have regular classes which go up to Precalculus by senior year, enriched classes that go up to either Enriched Precalculus or AP Calculus AB, and honors classes that go up to AP Calculus BC or Calculus 3. I’m worried that the community college course would be deemed to be only as rigorous as enriched or regular courses, meaning that I’d be worse off.
Most HS’s weight community college course at the same level as AP, sometimes higher. At my school, the CTY course was only weighted at an Honors level (4.5), while a community college class would have been weighted as Duel Enrollment (5.5)