confused about GPA and if I am doing enough EC

<p>I have AIM and Yahoo..</p>

<p>Blazer- there are two ways to get an internship..we go through this selective application process where they look at your grades and personal qualities, and then they allow you to enter into the program..you can either decide to take seven periods a day along with the internship class period..or you can take six classes a day with the internship class period..but the internship class period is always scheduled as the last class, because right after it, you will have to go to the site of wherever you are interning and then be the intern..some internships are paid, while others are not..i just want the experience, whether i get paid or not.. the other way is independant study where you work with a faculty member in an AP course or college course, that is not offered, due to low enrollment..</p>

<p>A lot of colleges ask for both, if you have them. SUPPOSEDLY they have their own weighting system and look at your transcript to see how well you do according to them. I don't know how to do my weighted GPA either, it would be interesting to find out. </p>

<p>For those of you who DO have weighted GPAs, do they count your Honors courses as well as AP/IB?</p>

<p>Another thing - this was kind of weird, but when I was in seventh grade, about 40 students from the district took an Algebra I course (we started 2 years ahead of everyone else, based on a pretest we had to pass). Then we are required to take 4 years of math in high school, regardless of where we are in math. Therefore, junior year means Calc BC or AB, and senior year means Statistics or going to the university for Calc III. Does this seem messed up to anyone else? Especially when everyone else just goes through Precalc and that's it?</p>

<p>I don't have any instant messaging sorry guys-it is because I have only comcast
Blazer08- I suggest looking around the internat for interships or registering at Fastweb and filling out their form.
i love Fastweb they suggest scholarships and intermships for you.</p>

<p>marmadillio-same thing happened at my middle school. Only a handful of kids did it and for eighth grade they took Geometry-they were really smart.
I feel your pain about weighted grades my school does not offer them either but I agree with Siren there are a few positives to it.</p>

<p>How big is everyone's school? There are two high schools in my district, grades 10-12 (yea, we're weird) that each have about 1800 students. There will be about 550 in my graduating class I think. Makes for large AP classes.</p>

<p>forgotten hawk- because you are in-state, i think you have a good chance at the UC's..</p>

<p>marmadillo- we have the same system, but in texas the only math that we are required to go up to is algebra II, but we are allowed to start algebra I in seventh grade...I started Algebra I in eighth grade..and English I in seventh grade..we aren't required to have four years of math at are our school, if one was accelerated in middle school, but they stress the importance of it..</p>

<p>misty- I also use fastweb!..i agree it's great..</p>

<p>Senior year (which will be next year for me)
Photography III
AP U.S. Hitory
Pre-Cal Honors
AP Spanish V
Chemistry Honors
AP English IV (Literature)
Internship</p>

<p>I read the "chances" forum (yeah I know sophomore taboo lol) but some of the students with lower stats have better chances than students with stellar stats because of their URM status. Does this raise someone's chances that much? Thanks, I think I'll try fastweb.</p>

<p>My High School in total has around 180 kids but including the lower and middle school there are 450. My school is JK through 12th grade</p>

<p>My school has 2200+ students.</p>

<p>Large, suburban public school. :)</p>

<p>marmadillo- there are two high schools in my district, but there will be a third one next year...my class (class of '08) is the biggest class in our district...last year it was 1500..and we have grades 9-12..the class that i'm graduating with ('07) has around 700..we have more people this year due to the New Orleans evacuations..so those numbers will be slightly different..</p>

<p>AIM SN is UrbanSxyRebel13 (long story on the name)..</p>

<p>Misty- it's ok..we can still PM you on CC..</p>

<p>I have a question-have your guidance counslars started talking to yet even though you are sophmores?
I can't talk to a counslar till I am a junior and only in the second term, is that weird?</p>

<p>Blazero8- it really depends on the school..for example if you were applying to Howard..you wouldn't have less of a chance, than a non African-American...but they would be considered a lot more..same goes with private schools..but that is the basic breakdown of it, we'd have to get into Affirmative Action, and I really don't want this to turn into a flaming war over Affirmative Action..</p>

<p>Misty - that seems odd. They started talking to us in ninth grade when we were transferring from the junior high to the high school, all about what classes we needed to take to graduate AND what would make us desireable to colleges. Supposedly my high school did better about this than the other one in town :)</p>

<p>Misty- since there are so many people in our school, and only four guidance counselors..but one guidance counselor for college..it's more like you will have to seek them out, because they don't have enough time to talk to every single person..i started talking to my counselors in ninth grade, and they know me very well..but they keep on asking me what college i want to go to..and to avoid answering this..i say it depends on who accepts me..and then they keep on pushing..and they go, if you were to go to college tomorrow, where would you go..i like all of the eight schools on my list, and that is a hard question for me..but i always have to answer with one school in particular, because i have unfinished bussiness in this state...i don't have the closure to close this chapter of my life at the moment..and it really irritates me when teachers and counselors insist on you choosing one school at this stage..i haven't even gone on visits, yet..so i don't truly know..i can honestly see myself at all eight places..</p>

<p>My school though is very odd-so I guess it is normal for them. I guess whatever they are doing works for the kids who graduated last year went to very good collges-one of my senior friends is at Harvard this year!!!!!!!
Also-there are only two guidance counslars but the school i go to is pretty small-only 49 kids in my grade</p>

<p>"Another thing - this was kind of weird, but when I was in seventh grade, about 40 students from the district took an Algebra I course (we started 2 years ahead of everyone else, based on a pretest we had to pass). Then we are required to take 4 years of math in high school, regardless of where we are in math. Therefore, junior year means Calc BC or AB, and senior year means Statistics or going to the university for Calc III. Does this seem messed up to anyone else? Especially when everyone else just goes through Precalc and that's it?"</p>

<p>My school doesn't do that, but it does'nt seemed messed up to me, cause you still take the same amount of math as everyone else. It's just that you take classes that are more at your level than other's.</p>

<p>i haven't seen my counselor yet this year, but all of my teachers are laying the "college is around the corner" thing on us real thick. especially after PSATs.</p>

<p>Same here, I'm not all biased to go to one single college like one of my friends who is obsessed with UNC. I'll be applying to (from most likely to get in to least likely):
University of South Carolina
Clemson University
Wofford College
Furman University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Wake Forest University
Emory University
Vanderbilt University
Duke University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>

<p>Colleges I don't know because Half of me wants to do something in the Areaeology(spelled wrong) field and the other half wants to make films.
I am considering
University of Chicago
Oxford in England(really out there I know)
Drexel University-film and also they sent me my first college propagands
Any suggestions out there for college to think about?</p>

<p>i was mostly looking to go to
Georgetown University
George Washington University
American University
University of Virginia
University of Richmond
College of William and Mary
Virginia Commonwealth University
James Madison University
George Mason University
Virginia Wesleyan College</p>

<p>because i want to stay as close to home as humanly possible and in-state too because it's cheaper for my parents. the exceptions are american, george washington, and georgetown. i picked those because i love D.C.</p>