<p>Me:</p>
<p>English II Hon
Chemistry I Hon
Student Government
Spanish II
AP Euro
Alg. II Hon (Possibly Precalc Hon if I do Alg II over summer.)</p>
<ul>
<li>AP Calculus</li>
<li>APES</li>
<li>Chemistry</li>
<li>APUSH ( if I get in, if not will take H. USH)</li>
<li>Computer Science </li>
<li>Honors English 10</li>
<li>Online Spanish 1</li>
</ul>
<p>@goodnoodle 8.9/10</p>
<p>You know there’s a “rate the schedule above you” thread?</p>
<p>The classes I’m taking next year are:</p>
<p>-English 2 Honors (Zero period)
-Piano
-Algebra 2 Honors
-AP Biology
-AP Euro
-Spanish 2
-Advanced Girl’s Tennis</p>
<p>6/10 </p>
<p>AP Chemistry - 1
Pre Calc or AP Calculus AB - 1
Honors Biology or AP Biology - 1
Honors British Literature - 1
Honors World History - 1
Honors Spanish III - 1
Gym - .5 (required)
Genetics and Epidemiology - .5 (elective)
AP Statistics (self-study)
AP World History (self-study)
AP European History(self-study)</p>
<p>Youth in Government*<br>
Model UN*
World Quest*
Academic Bowl
Science Ambassadors
Politics Club*
ASHE Club*
Sophomore Council*
Improv Club*
Chess Club*
Recreation Club*
Outdoor Club*
Ski Club*
Robotics Club
Team Engineering*
URM Cultural Awareness*
People for Animal Welfare*
Key Club*
Habitat for Humanity*
Patriots Club*
Environmental Club*
Stock Market Club*
volunteering
State Brain Bee
Association of computer machinery*
AMC
Chem and Bio Olympiads
maybe
- Math League(try-outs)
- Science Olympiad(try-outs)
- Envirothon(try-outs)
- Mock Trial(try-outs)</p>
<p>As to how I do so many extracurriculars, our school has a daily period devoted to ECs. * clubs meet during that period. After school, im doing the not marked activites or preparing for the ones in school.</p>
<p>10 your schedule doesn’t seem too hard but with all the ec’s and self studying Ap’s that will be hard</p>
<p>Sophomore
Ap stats
Ap chemistry
Ap computer science
Ap environmental science
Ap human geography
Ap macroeconomics
Ap European history
Honors English 2</p>
<p>Ec’s
Woman’s varsity tennis
Fashion club- president
FBLA- representative (maybe)
Student council- vice president
Deca
Speech and debate
Interact club
Drama club</p>
<p>Plus I have a job at a tutoring center</p>
<p>Wow thats alot of APs. Besides Chem, none of them are really that bad. Macro, human geo, enviro, and stats are some of the easiest self studies. Euro and CS are easy if you are interested. You also are not taking a language… So really i think it is a challenging schedule, but it wont be look upon as like crazy because your loading up on the easy APs. Just my 2 cents</p>
<p>Also, my schedule is pretty crazy as Brit Lit and Spanish 3 are tremendously hard as i go to a top 20 public school. I think the math and sciences are gonna be manageable, but spanish and english are probably gonna kill me.</p>
<p>@ImSoAmbitious drop some ECs. you only have one extra period for them so there still shouldn’t be that many. it just looks like a list to impress. quality > quantity. you shouldn’t have more than 10 (15 since you’ve got an extra period during school)</p>
<p>No point in dropping them unless i feel stressed out. I won’t even list some of those on my application such as Improv, Outdoor, Ski, Recreation, and Chess. Then alot of them are volunteering clubs. </p>
<p>Clubs where I actually do academic things</p>
<p>Academic Bowl
Model UN
World Quest
Robotics
Team Engineering
Youth In Government
ASHE Club
Sophomore Council
Yearbook
Math League(try-outs)
Science Olympiad(try-outs)
Envirothon(try-outs)
Mock Trial(try-outs)</p>
<p>Competitions </p>
<p>History Bowl
History Bee
Chemistry Olympiad
Biology Olympiad
Brain Bee
AMC</p>
<p>Fun</p>
<p>Recreation
Improv
Outdoor
Ski
Politics
Chess
Stock Market
Association of Computer Machinery</p>
<p>Volunteer</p>
<p>Science Ambassadors
Environmental
People for Animal Welfare
Habitat for Humanity
URM Cultural Awareness
Key Club
YELL</p>
<p>ImSoAmbitious,
With that many ECs how can you contribute in a meaningful way to any one of them?</p>
<p>I am taking:
Honors Alg. 2 (H. Pre-Calc if I take Alg. 2 over the summer)
H. English 2
H. US History
PE 2
Chemistry (No Honors sciences)
Directed Project (The one allowed elective, where you work on a project relating to one of your interests)</p>
<p>I am self-studying:
AP US Gov (I am a huge political science nerd, so it will be (fairly) easy)
AP Human Geography (Easy BS, but pretty cool sounding)
AP Psych (Easy BS)</p>
<p>My ECs are not in school, but they are pretty neat:
Building autonomous robots from scratch
Administrating an internationally renoun Linux convention
Administrating a local hackerspace</p>
<p>@Sinestro: At your school, does everyone have to do a directed project?</p>
<p>@Foodlover001:Yes, except in Freshman year, when we find out what we want to do later, thus providing the topics we do for our Directed Projects.</p>
<p>@Sinestro: So do you research for the entire period? Also, does your topic continue from 10th grade-12th grade?</p>
<p>@Statlanta some people enjoy gaining knowledge and have a greater drive to succeed. And for ECs I get a hour everyday during school and I stay after to school for 2 hours to practice. Then I spend additional time on each on my own watch. </p>
<p>@Sue22</p>
<p>My goals for next year:</p>
<p>Academic Bowl
- next year I hope to attend NAQT nationals. At my school both A and B team qualify every year and C team is pretty close. </p>
<p>World Quest
- hope(lol) to win states</p>
<p>Model UN
- win local awards</p>
<p>Youth in Government
- represent my school at Legislative conference; maybe get some bills passed</p>
<p>Robotics/Team Engineering
- not doing them this year so no clue what my goals will be</p>
<p>Brain bee
- win my regional competition </p>
<p>History Bowl/Bee
- win 1st place at the national competition</p>
<p>ASHE CLUB
- I am board member</p>
<p>Student Government
- hope to get a position</p>
<p>Yearbook
- I just market and sell them</p>
<p>AMC/Physics/Chem/Bio Olympiad
- I have no clue what my goals are I will be taking them for the first time</p>
<p>Mock Trial/SciO/Math League/Envirothon
- I am just gonna try to make those teams. However, we are the best school in the state so we usually get 1st in all the regional competitions and do relatively well at nationals. </p>
<p>The volunteer clubs I hope to get hours and get some leadership positions.</p>
<p>In the fun clubs I just have fun/get some leadership positions.</p>
<p>@Sinestro</p>
<p>That sounds pretty interesting. You have some cool ECs. As for self-studying I am doing AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Human geo, and AP Psych. Human Geo is pretty easy, but Psych has a lot of memorization.</p>
<p>@ImSoAmbitious you have around 30 ECs. 3 hours every weekday = 15 hours/ week. plus you spend time outside of school. but still, how would you spend more than two hours on any EC and more than one hour on every one (per week that is) at the same time? it’s ultimately your judgment, but I’m telling you just looking at your list, it doesn’t really seem like you’re invested in any of them.</p>
<p>Well I see your point, I should take out the volunteer and “fun” ECs. I spend about 30 hours a week on ECs. So if you take those i will have about 20. Then some of those are competitions on which not much time is spent. Ex. Model UN; I have attended all 3 conferences this year. You just need to work hard for a few hours before each conference to get the Gavel(top prize). So I have spent 9 hours on Model UN the whole year, and I have been very successful.</p>
<p>Also I’m doing a lot at lunch/before school. For most of those volunteer clubs I am attending their events or doing fundraising before school/at lunch. Same with Yearbook selling. Also for the stuff that im trying out for, I really don’t know if I will get. Even if I do get in, I don’t really know the time commitments. I will surely drop a few things to fit the new ones in.</p>