A New Kind of Game...

Prep School Admissions
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<p>So... I have today and tomorrow off due to the cold and I'm pretty bored so I decided to start a new kind of game called...</p>

<p>Design your course load for next year!</p>

<p>Kinda geeky but whatever.</p>

<p>Here's mine if I started SPS in tenth grade:</p>

<p>Humanities IV
Greek II
Advanced French Language 3
Chemistry
Algebra 2 Honors
Jazz Ensemble</p>

<p>Humanities V
Greek III
Advanced French Language 4
Pre calculus Honors
Physics
Jazz Ensemble</p>

<p>Middle Eastern Voices/American Foreign Policy/Religion and Science Seminar
Greek IV
French Literature
Calculus I Honors
Jazz Ensemble</p>

<p>And next year's if I go to Greenhills:</p>

<p>English I
World History
Geometry Honors
Biology
French II
Spanish II
Advanced Jazz Band</p>

<p>I was really bored today. Can't you tell?</p>

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<p>OMG I wasn't the only one who were bored enough to do this thing. HAHA LOL
Actually, I made several different ones and compared to see which one would suit the best...</p>

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<p>Your schedule looks like a lot of fun!
I'll just do Exeter for now. :p</p>

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<p>Phillips Exeter Academy
Grade 10</p>

<p>Semester One: Fall
MAT510: MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS
BIO371: INTRODUCTORY GENETICS I
PHY210: PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS
ENG210
CHI110: ELEMENTARY CHINESE </p>

<p>Semester Two: Winter
PHY220: PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS
MAT520: MULTIVARIABLE CALCULUS
BIO372: MOLECULAR GENETICS
ENG230
CHI220: ELEMENTARY CHINESE</p>

<p>Semester Three: Spring
PHY220: PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS
ENG330
PEC100: **INTRODUCTION TO FITNESS<a href="COEDUCATIONAL">/B</a> :D :D :D
CHI230: ELEMENTARY CHINESE
PHY391: ASTRONOMY I </p>

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<p>I can dream, can't I. :)</p>

<p>By the way, how exactly is this a game? :p</p>

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<p>Does anyone know if students at SPS can take six courses per term? If I end up going there, I'd really like to take two foreign languages concurrently and still take band. </p>

<p>Is band not during the school day?</p>

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<p>chaos theory- you are forgetting health, and you will need other gym classes!</p>

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<p>I see. Can you please tell me about the requirements? Are gym and health counted as separate classes?</p>

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<p>Chaos, you need English.
Jonathan, I think that at every prep school you can take two languages. At Choate, you have a courseload of 5 courses each semester with one free period, but if you take six, you have no free periods and if you take four, you have two free periods. If you take four, you have to make it up another semester by taking six. If you don't, you are put on academic probation.</p>

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<p>I do have English. It's called "ENG210\220\230". I wish I could stay at Exeter for like 10 years, so I could take as many courses as possible. :) Anyway, the problem is getting in first. :D</p>

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<p>It's difficult, but I'm refraining from planning out my schedule until I know where I'm going next year. One thing that I really like about St. Mark's, though, is that I could do the Classical Honors Program (three years Latin/two years Greek), take French and do a year abroad in France, and still not have foreign language or Classics as my major study area (I don't want it to be; I wanted to go into child psychiatry or educational law). It would be a LOT, I know, but it's possible, I love to do it.</p>

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<p>St. Mark's has a classical honors program?</p>

<p>I'll definitely research that. I was only aware that St. Paul's had such a program.</p>

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<p>Yes, though it's different. St. Mark's takes great pride in their Classics program.</p>

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<p>Did you apply for the Classical Honors Scholarship at SPS, prettyckitty? I believe one of paleozoic's kids did this.</p>

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<p>I thought you couldn't apply for the Classical Honors Scholarship after you've taken Latin for Greek for two years.</p>

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<p>Well, my next year's schedule:</p>

<p>AP Chem
AP Euro
AP Calc BC
AP Photo or AP CS
English IV (took AP English already)
Spanish III honors (?)</p>

<p>Plus various sports teams.</p>

<p>What is "Principles of Physics"? I just took Physics 1, 2 and 3 Honors (yes, three years of physics) straight up. Is that, like, a physics prep course?</p>

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<p>What school do you go to, iriseyes?</p>

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I thought you couldn't apply for the Classical Honors Scholarship after you've taken Latin for Greek for two years.

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<p>I think this rule has exceptions. If you know a lot about the language(s), I think you can take it.</p>

<p>Paleozoic recommended I study Latin a lot over the summer and take the exam. </p>

<p>I picked up an Ancient Greek book at the library yesterday. I already know how to read in Greek because my grandmother taught me so so at least I don't have to do that! :)</p>

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<p>Olivia, that is wrong. Choate operates on an eight "block" schedule, with three permanent lunch blocks and five rotating blocks. Someone taking six classes would still have two blocks free; someone taking five (the norm) would have three. Only during "senior spring" is one permitted to take four. </p>

<p>Therefore, a small number of people do take two languages.</p>

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<p>Three free periods?! Doesn't seem like a lot?</p>

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<p>Ah, but I don't know any Latin or Greek. My dad does (I've wanted him to teach by for years, but he tried to teach my sister when she was ten and it did not go well, so he's be hesistent). If I go to St. Paul's, I'll apply for the Scholarship if I can qualify.</p>