<p>For electives, there aren't any honors so would that be a detriment to your GPA? For example; Orchestra. If there is a graduation requirement that doesn't have an honors level, will that also be bad?</p>
<p>no . . . not everything has an "honors" attached to it, and just because something doesn't have the word honors after its name doesn't automatically mean it's bad.</p>
<p>But if its weighted GPA, my school adds .5 for all Honors and AP Classes.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it... take classes that you enjoy not just classes that will help your GPA. If your school offers classes that would be helpful to the major you want then take them, have fun, get a good grade, impress college addmission officers, get into your dream school, drink milk and be HAPPY!</p>
<p>If you have more than one class not honours or AP then it's an automatic rejection from every but community college. You should try doing Honors Physical Education; or AP Weight Training.</p>
<p>(that was sarcasm)</p>
<p>haha. chipset makin fun of masterus.
seriously.
no body likes masterus.
why does he even post anymore?</p>
<p>I am always sarcastic and cynical. (evil laugh)</p>
<p>mr chipset, Honors and AP are mainly for Academics. Unless for Orchestra, Band, etc. Stop creating a hindrance to my thread. mr chipset, you fail to amuse me, intead you make me show disinterest to your comments. I am bemused by the very thought of you.</p>
<p>riverrider, who are you to make decisions? What? you want to start a monarchy? Get used to it what you think isn't what other people think. What bias you have is a detriment to this very foundation. A world in the future must hold no critical bias and racism. Our humanity depends on it. It is because of people like you that the human race might not thrive on.</p>
<p>I thought you were dead....</p>
<p>As for you, I have been active. I am not someone who sits at the computer for hours as it harms your sight and is unhealthy. My advice for you, stop dtaying on so long. I live a life where I deal with real situations unlike simulated posts on the forum.</p>
<p>pie would be nice</p>
<p>and dont worry, i've been at the pool :)</p>
<p>Band/Orchestra counts as honors credit at my school during junior and senior year.</p>
<p>that'd be nice- is it only for the top band war chant?</p>
<p>Yeah, considering they expect you to be in one of the top bands by junior/senior year. You aren't going to be a senior in Band I, most seniors rather take other electives such as pottery.</p>
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mr chipset, Honors and AP are mainly for Academics. Unless for Orchestra, Band, etc. Stop creating a hindrance to my thread. mr chipset, you fail to amuse me, intead you make me show disinterest to your comments. I am bemused by the very thought of you.
riverrider, who are you to make decisions? What? you want to start a monarchy? Get used to it what you think isn't what other people think. What bias you have is a detriment to this very foundation. A world in the future must hold no critical bias and racism. Our humanity depends on it. It is because of people like you that the human race might not thrive on.
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<p>-_- Please, calm down. And stop using words that make you sound like you want to look smart and have a dictionary sitting in your lap. </p>
<p>If there are NO honors electives, IT'S OKAY! Why? Because colleges will SEE that your school does not offer AP/Honors in that area and see that you have no choice but to choose an elective that isn't honors. And, my gosh, don't take classes JUST because they are honors.</p>
<p>Read My first post. And the words I use aren't "big words. They are just crucial words I have learned over the years to write an excellent persuasive essay. If you think those are difficult vocabulary, you better start learning new words. The honors part matters because of the GPA. </p>
<p>My school doesn't count rank.</p>
<p>Look, how I see this question. You have four damn years to spend in school. You CANNOT spend all of them on a goal for reaching the college; it's stupid and unneccessary. It's stupid because you will have four years wasted without fun. It is unneccessary because if you don't like academics and you're, with tears on your eyes choosing hated AP Biology to lovely Orchestra just for admission then you will get accepted. Yes, you will go to Harvard but guess what? You will have no fun in Harvard, because it's a college which has a program dedicated to those preferring a lot (I am not saying all of them) of hard classes FOR FUN. Now, they will assume that you're having fun calculating partial differential equations of a wave; and if you don't -- life really sux for you. Even if you're in Harvard.
If you wouldn't be caring about schedule for admissions, you wouldn't be crying over AAAAh, ORCHESTRA which, DAMN!!!, takes (no, IMAGINE THAT!) whole class from you. But if you're doing this merely for admissions then you're lying to adcoms; but it will hurt you and only you as you will have to spend 4+4=8 damn years of no-life.
Don't lie to yourself! It's the stupidest kind of lie!
Dixi.</p>
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Read My first post. And the words I use aren't "big words. They are just crucial words I have learned over the years to write an excellent persuasive essay. If you think those are difficult vocabulary, you better start learning new words. The honors part matters because of the GPA.
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No, big words aren't showing persuasiveness. They're showing that you're trying to show off or substitute weak ideas with smart words. The first document I have received in Biology H (it's high school) was, - How to write research paper, - and it had a column with couple of "smart" words and column with "substitutes." I can post it if you need it.</p>
<p>P.S. Masterus, if you think using words like that in a college application essay, it won't. It'll sound like someone's parents or guidance counseler polished it up for them. It'd be really hard to get to know a person through their essay if there's such a thick coating of vocabulary to decode through first. Why? Because even most Ivy students don't use words like that in everyday life. So-called complicated words do not necessarily equal an excellent persuasive essay. A persuasive essay is meant to persuade someone, and you haven't so far.</p>
<p>Orchestra isn't conflicting with any of my classes. Why would I be a neccisant to cry? Don't worry I'll fun. You don't know what's on my mind. Don't go thinking because I take these courses that prove real difficulty that I will abandon life. Studying isn't healthy. You should stop assuming many things as there is always a chance to be wrong. Just because I want rigorous courses means I don't have a life? Don't assume, you never know unless you ask.</p>
<p>Ok, maybe I'm wrong and you're not taking rigorous classes just to impress colleges. I hope this is really that way! However, from your posts, I can see nothing but an attempt to "show-off" with rigour of classes.</p>