<p>Haha he got an internship at Scripps? Nicee.</p>
<p>Umm. I had an internship in human resources at our local transit agency haha.
Not really related to my field, but I did get a 2 hour tour of the place explaining how everything actually works (Chemical processes for alternative fuels, etc).</p>
<p>Umm. May do some research at UCI since my dad works there?? Don’t know if its possible ha.</p>
<p>Hopefully attending an engineering seminar at Santa Clara University.</p>
<p>Taking an extra Chem class this summer hopefully. I want to take an AP Physics course next year. (Although it doesn’t look like my school will offer it… two people signed up… which makes me mad since last year they said they would have it too).</p>
<p>Oh well, if anything I’ll self study for Physics C since it’s mainly Calculus based from what I hear, and I’ll be taking BC. Physics B would be too much factual material to study since I’ll be taking AP Biology.</p>
<p>But yeah… as of now, I think I’ll score around a 3/4 on AP Calc AB, a 4/5 on Psych, and I have no clue about AP Lang.</p>
<p>Oh, and Mathboy…</p>
<p>Yeah, I want to get my material BC test) I’ll definetely enroll in some type of Calc Class to review everything/ Self Study over the summer before Freshman year to make sure I have everything down.</p>
<p>^ Well I don’t know. He was really surprised too, so we just decided that he got in because of his internship at Scripps, cuz that’s not easy to come by Oh, and on top of that, he got a C in his calc BC class before he transferred into my calc AB class, and his math 2 C was something like 680. Yeah, it was very strange. I didn’t read his essays, but maybe that impressed them? idk. Anyways, he’s not going to UCB cuz he thinks that he’ll probably get slaughtered there He’s going to UCSD instead. </p>
<p>Also he was well rounded (speech and debate president and couple of other leadership positions). I personally think that berkeley’s starting to change its admittance criteria. To me, it seems as if essays and ECs are becoming more and more important. I remember at my regent interview, the professor made all sorts of comments about my essays, and ECs but strangely not so much about academics…and usually regents get in because of their impressive resume/academic achievement… idk. It’s all very strange and confusing.</p>
<p>I think if you’re going to be an engineer, you kinda HAVE to be at the level of being able to self-study Physics C </p>
<p>Go grab Halliday, Resnick and Walker, or if you’re ambitious, for E&M, read Purcell, the book Berkeley uses for its honors course, which frankly is supposed to be really hard. Note, however, that this latter book requires foundation in vector/multivariable calculus.</p>
<p>If the sole issue is time, though, I think you should follow KitKatz’s advice, and just go ahead and do it over summer when you have time to focus. </p>
<p>I can try to answer your physics questions if you want </p>
<p>(As long as I remember…which I do some of it for sure…)</p>
<p>Halliday is pretty good if you want to study in depth. I really think you have to be able to dedicate a lot of time (some of the chapters past the basics of electricity is rather difficult to understand), unless you are just naturally good at it! I do like the practice problems in there; I only wish that they could show the solutions for some of them. </p>
<p>However, if you are just trying to get a 5 on the AP test, you don’t need to study from Halliday. I was kind of deceived by my physics teacher that AP Physics B & C were going to be impossible ( he gave us problems from Halliday for homework + tests and told us that this is what the AP test will be like). I took a real AP practice test for the first time on Monday. It was so much easier than the stuff in Halliday. Seriously. So aside from Halliday, I would also suggest getting one of those AP study books. If you are on a time time crunch, it can really help! :)</p>
<p>I don’t get offended easily, don’t worry. :] I know it’s all with good intention, and i appreciate your insight.</p>
<p>I took AP Chem already… you might say that our teacher wasn’t very good at teaching, but was brilliant. Took it sophomore year. A class of ten kids. One passed with a 3. She’s going to be attending harvard. (Legacy, straight A’s, 2200+ SAT, and amazing extracurriculars)</p>
<p>So I’m taking the summer course to just be more grounded in Chemistry because I really would like to be more knowledgable in the subject than I am.</p>
<p>As for Physics…</p>
<p>I plan to take AP Lit, AP Calc BC, and AP Biology next year that is offered at my school. Religion is a mandatory class. So I have 4/7 class periods filled. I have enough credits to graduate (except for english, which is four years). </p>
<p>So, I have three extra periods. I plan to make one of those an “AP Physics C” class, where I can self study but be in the same room with my physics teacher and have it possibly considered a “class”? I’m not sure. I need to ask my Principal about this.</p>
<p>So I don’t think the work load will be too bad. (considering that I will have two free periods on top of a self study course)</p>
<p>Haha okay! I really like your enthusiasm blackroses! It seem as if you are pretty adamant about engineering! I wish I were like that last year…I remember signing up for two architecture classes only to come out completely disillusioned and disappointed because designing buildings wasn’t nearly as glamorous and creativity oriented as I thought (damn the Fountainhead! :)) </p>
<p>If you only have four classes and you are serious about engineering, go right on ahead and flood your brain with physics (disregard what I said about self-studying earlier)! I mainly told you that because in my experience, self-study for physics was extremely difficult to say the least. But then again, I’m taking seven AP/IB classes, and was slaving away on IB crap/a few ECs and other stuff. Since you do not have the same situation, please challenge yourself as much as you want! :)</p>
<p>I kind of envy you for having such small classes. Our average classes are about 32 kids so students don’t always get the personal attention we sometimes need. Then again, if we didn’t have so many kids in one class, I wouldn’t have been able to get away with sneaking into physics class 30 minutes late or doing homework from other classes So if you can study with the physics teacher then that’s awesome!</p>
<p>Have fun with your summer classes! Hope you learn heaps of good stuff! Good luck on the rest of your AP tests! (You’ll do great with Psychology! My suggestion for studying is to watch House You learn a lot, trust me)</p>
<p>haha I don’t watch much tv except for house when I go to my dads. I already had prior knowledge before self study,I think I’ll get an easy 5. Thank you for the advice, and btw the reason my classes are so small is because it’s a new private school (we will be the first graduating class.). So it has it’s pros and cons. :)</p>
<p>I took many AP classes, but did not take many AP tests this year, when in retrospect I probably should have. Can you get out of many classes, or are they just for class selection purposes?</p>
<p>Will I be at a serious disadvantage having learned the material well enough to receive 4s/5s but not having taken the tests?</p>
<p>AP classes count more for admissions, while as said above, other than Lit and Calc, I haven’t seen any other AP test that I’m banking on to skip some classes.</p>
<p>I don’t know about engineering, but for pre-med, you generally need to take all the science series over anyway because med schools do not accept AP credit for a chem or physics class. I think calc is ok but not sure, but taking the ap classes is a good idea anyway because it will give at least a foundation for college.</p>
<p>Lol House is awesome Our psychology class was basically a Let’s-Watch-House-Reruns/other movies class. if you have prior knowledge then you’ll get a five no problem.</p>
<p>^^ I did mean it innocently!! You can replace that with “So you admire Roark??” or whatever. I frankly have not read Ayn Rand’s stuff much, Atlas Shrugged or Fountainhead, but they were heavily referenced (somewhat humorously) in other reading I’ve done. </p>
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<p>Sooo, Ayn Rand’s reading of what women find attractive could be true in some cases, eh? Interesting.
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<p>I guess I’d say that they give you a fair bit, but not tons of ability to skip out of breadth requirements. The early telebears appointment can be great.</p>
<p>Oh, frankly I am scared of Ayn Rand on average – in 7th grade, for whatever reason they made us read Anthem, and I recall neither the teacher nor the students liked it – still recall getting a 97% on the test on that book without doing very much studying at all, given the teacher didn’t care much. There’s this amusing little book called Old School by Tobias Wolff, which I was pretty fond of, even though it isn’t exactly your traditional, classic well-written book. Basically, it’s set at a school where all the students are overenthusiastic literature/writing maniacs, and compete in writing competitions for chances to meet famous authors like R. Frost, A. Rand (supposedly bringing her to the school as a guest was oh-so-controversial), and E. Hemingway. The portrayals of all the authors was pretty funny in some ways. Frost was the sort of somewhat proud poet to spit on the more modernist styles of composition, Hemingway portrayed humanity in his version of the most realistic, “human” way possible, Rand was, quite frankly, Rand!!! That is, wrote about only extraordinary human beings and their tales. Overall something I enjoyed, and can be read with a pretty light spirit.</p>
<p>^ That sounds so interesting! I’m adding this to my reading list. I’d love to see his take on Hemingway…</p>
<p>haha she’s pretty intense alright. I read Anthem at school as well, and then Fountainhead mainly because I have two friends who are avid Ayn Rand/Objectivism fans. One of them gave me this book for my birthday and I read it out of curtesy. IMO it was better/easier to swallow/less intense than Anthem. Plus, I think it’s also better written.</p>
<p>Though she can be frightening, the person even scarier than her IMO, is Hemingway. He and Hawthorne (though amusingly on opposite end of the spectrum with their writing styles) are at the top of my least favorite authors list.</p>
Oh, and on top of that, he got a C in his calc BC class before he transferred into my calc AB class, and his math 2 C was something like 680. Yeah, it was very strange. I didn’t read his essays, but maybe that impressed them? idk. Anyways, he’s not going to UCB cuz he thinks that he’ll probably get slaughtered there 
He’s going to UCSD instead. </p>
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