<p>Just remember, middle schoolers, if you don't take every AP your high school offers, Ivy admissions officers will use your application as toilet paper! If your school offers less than 10 APs (poor soul) then by all means self-study until you can take 10 AP tests, or else you will be relegated to the dreaded "single digit AP count" pile that exists in all Ivy league admissions departments.</p>
<p>I would've been a part of this thread three years ago, but there were no eighth graders like me back then. =/ Yeah. I got dissed a lot, so I left. Came back a little over a year ago. Don't be discouraged!</p>
<p>Well, I guess you can admire these seventh/eighth graders for their interest in going to college. I didn't take anything seriously until eighth grade when my English teacher talked some sense into me...</p>
<p>At least the sevvies and sub-frosh can actually learn something: the importance of reading things critically and how to detect bias; there are many places here where this can be practiced.</p>
<p>Im in the Class of 2010, too.
And you guys are right- this site is making me crazy!
Ive already counted all the courses I should take by 12th grade, what my GPA should be, and what my application essay topic should be.
This site is sooooooooo addicting!</p>
<p>No matter how much I know, though, my school does not offer APs in 9th grade because they dont want us dead 1st year in high school. But we have like the 2nd biggest AP passing rate (after Exeter, I think).
Some people here are totally crazy and are real nerds, though. </p>
<p>When I had my interview for the high school I'll be attending the lady there told me they had an 8th grader who completed multivariable calculus and is being independently taught through the stanford online program+ the head of the math department. WHERE DO YOU GO PAST THAT???????????</p>
<p>In Japan there are tests to gain admission to Keio and Waseda Elementary schools at age 6-and if one passes, one gets a free ride from K-16 in the same institution, while others must take senior high and university entrance tests.</p>