<p>I got accepted to my dream school!!! :)
The bad thing is that I have no motivation to do anything anymore lol
But all my classes for the rest of the year are IB, unfortunately...
And the letter of acceptance said that I have to keep up my grades or else Rice will rescind the acceptance.
I was just wondering, what exactly does it mean to "keep my grades up"? Does that mean I just can't fail any classes? Or can't get C's or D's?
Thanks</p>
<p>Same here!!
I’m taking it to mean no Cs or Ds, which means that my report card will probably consist of solid 80s for the rest of the year. (:</p>
<p>lol yeah! i was thinking of aiming for a 3.0 for the next two trimesters! 
that would make life so much easier, but still have to prepare for the IB/AP tests, sadly :/</p>
<p>Ugh, I know. -_-
I seriously wish Rice would just accept community college dual credit so I wouldn’t have to worry about battling Collegeboard’s dumb Calc exam. I genuinely don’t think I have a chance against that mess of nonsense, haha.</p>
<p>Do the best you can. There was a guy last year who got into Rice ED but later had his acceptance rescinded for poor grades. He was devastated too.</p>
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<li><p>Study for IB exams the two days before each exam. Trust me, it works. And it’s fully compatible with senioritis. Hopefully y’all’s schedule is not as bad as it was last year. In a 21-day exam period, I had 10 of my 15 exams in 4 consecutive days.</p></li>
<li><p>I’d stay away from Cs and Ds. Those are risky.</p></li>
<li><p>If you were accepted with nearly a 4.0, you probably should try to reduce the number of Bs, too. A few Bs is okay, but I’d hesitate to get all Bs.</p></li>
<li><p>If you applied as an IB Diploma Candidate, get your diploma.</p></li>
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<p>Good luck battling senioritis, and enjoy the rest of your year :)!</p>
<p>lol so basically, i should just forget the fact that im already accepted into my dream school and just go on doing what i’ve been doing for the past 3 years: try my hardest to get all A’s haha.
unfortunately, my schedule this is a lot worse than my schedule last year, even though i also had all all IBs/APs last year too lol</p>
<p>my HLs are math, english and bio. i want to get 6s on those so i can get college credit at Rice, but i just have no motivation at all…lol</p>
<p>btw thanks for the responses guys :)</p>
<p>Sigh. It’s just such a nice thought…</p>
<p>Oh, well. I’m sure we can trudge along the last leg of High School.</p>
<p>I’m just genuinely worried of freshman year at Rice being like a 13th grade continuation of this awful burnt out senioritis.</p>
<p>oh my gosh i know! that would suck!
after working SO hard to get into your dream school, failing the first semester because you just can’t get over your senioritis would be SO bad! haha
hopefully we can encourage each other as we go though :)</p>
<p>Don’t worry, it won’t be. College is so much easier to care about than high school.</p>
<p>^
Yeah. It’s a lot easier to care about classes you’re interested in, especially when they lack busywork. And amazing professors are easier to care about than incompetent teachers.</p>
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<p>HL Math requirement is hopefully on its way down to a 5 soon (i.e., maybe by the time you matriculate), and I’m pushing to get them to accept SL credits, but that’s probably going to take the next three years at best.</p>
<p>…Oops. That probably didn’t help.</p>
<p>Does less busywork mean less emphasis on individual homework assignments and more on exams & readings?</p>
<p>^ Not necessarily. Less busywork means you will not get a homework with 50 questions where each one applies the same formula. You will not get much HW that is being done for the sake of being done either. </p>
<p>As a ChemE, there was a lot of focus on HW, more than exams. The HW was very hard and required us to work in groups. It was more a focus point rather than an ancillary facet of the class.</p>
<p>Yeah for my math class I had 15-18 problems a week. Always due on Monday, and a lot of the time they were multiple choice. No busy work reapplying the same formulas in the same manner; rather, you get just what you need and you have the option of taking advantage of it or not. Then the exams were the main focus, particularly the final.</p>
<p>Other classes (ex. my German class) focus a lot more on the homework and smaller assignments, yet I still would argue that not much busy work existed.</p>