<p>Wow y’all have it together. 
The only thing that I am (mostly) sure about is that I’m taking some AP english, APUSH, and either college/honors pre-calc. I’m debating on Spanish 4 though. My GC discouraged against it saying I would need the free period to study, especially if I take the college chemistry class. However I’ve read elsewhere that 4 years of language is recommended. </p>
<p>@MissSuzyQ But that does allow you to complete more courses. We have 3 core courses, English, Social Science (sequence: Health/Geography, World History (no AP Euro/honors offered), US History (APUSH offered), Gov/Econ (AP Gov/AP Macro), and Math (and you technically don’t need a math senior year). The rest are electives; but our school is very academics-focused, so nobody (I repeat: nobody) takes six difficult courses a year. People usually take 1 or 2 CP/elective courses if they’re aiming for a challenging schedule (I’ll be taking 2 next year unless I don’t get into Journalism, and 1 senior year unless I don’t get into Journalism (in that case it’ll be 1 and 0, although the AP I’m taking in place senior year is very easy). It’s difficult to take courses you want to take after you’ve taken all your cores, sciences, and elective (which is generally used up by a language, a music/arts class, journalism, or yearbook).</p>
<p>@themarauders I love your screen name.
But yeah, I’m also debating on Spanish 4. I don’t like Spanish (the language I want to do is Latin, but I can’t find any good self-study tools and my school doesn’t offer the course) much, but I’ve heard they want 4 years of Spanish. Also, lots of people from my school are native speakers of Chinese, so they get into AP Chinese sophomore year (meaning they have higher-level languages than the rest of us). </p>
<p>@topaz1116 , that’s a good point. I honestly probably wouldn’t prefer to take only six courses a year and all at once. The only significant setbacks I see in block scheduling are the fitting in one day the amount of knowledge you should typically learn in two and the way you’re less likely to bond with teachers.</p>
<p>I’m taking Spanish 3 Honors right now. I’m so far excelling in all areas other than the language production grades. I’m not taking Spanish 4 and up… I’m just not that committed to the language. I think 2 years is good for most state schools, 3 is okay for some higher end schools but Ivy leagues and the like would probably expect you to master up to AP.</p>
<p>@MissSuzyQ It’s mainly the higher-end schools I’m worried about. Three is the requirement for all of them, but they recommend four.</p>
<p>I don’t particularly like language, either. My school doesn’t offer an honors program for languages, though; and we only offer four languages (Chinese, French, Spanish, Japanese).</p>
<p>Well, you have a little more diversity than my school does when it concerns the languages offered. We have Spanish, French and Latin. We used to have German (which I actually would be interested in taking since my ancestors were German) but it was cancelled due to lack of student interest.</p>
<p>We have Spanish French and Latin as well, the only language classes that offer credit. There is one teacher who tutors in Greek however. There is a Chinese club where they teach students Chinese. We have and Honors program though. </p>
<p>We only have Spanish and German. I chose the Spanish track, and I’m glad I did. Spanish I and II aren’t weighted, but Spanish III and IV are because many people don’t go that far. I honestly wish that we had French though, because my mom’s side is French, and it’d be interesting to go with my roots.</p>
<p>We only have Spanish and French. We also have ASL (American Sign Language), but that’s not even a foreign language.</p>
<p>My AP Calc AB teacher knows sign language, and she always makes it do it…it’s weird.</p>
<p>We’ve got spanish, french and german</p>
<p>@MissSuzyQ I’d rather have Latin. The only people who take Chinese are native speakers (I’m like 90% sure there’s no Chinese 1 class at all), and our school is a magnet for Japanese… None of the other schools in our district offer it. The middle school only offers Spanish and French, so if you want a head start on a language, you have to either take one on your own or be a native speaker of one of the others.</p>
<p>I was at a high school yesterday for a band review, and although they have half the number of students my school does, their campus is almost twice as big (and this is in a large city as opposed to ours, which is in a mid-sized city). And their facilities are much, much nicer. Even though they aren’t actually a very good school.</p>
<p>Not fair.</p>
<p>But our guard won second place in division 4A-5A (the biggest schools; around 6-7 schools, but the one we expected to win didn’t even place) and our band won second place in division 5A (which isn’t exactly very good because there are three schools in that division, but we expected the first place school to come in first place; they have an arts (performing arts, visual arts, music) magnet program). </p>
<p>My school has a pretty wide variety of languages, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, American Sign Language, and Italian.</p>
<p>Many of you might know that this year I am applying for a math/science focus school where, senior year, I will take college courses. Consequently, I will graduate college a year early. </p>
<p>Should I put "Interviewed by ---- for iPads in the classroom " on my application, even if it was in 7th grade?
How far back do you think I should go? If I won a basketball championship in 3rd-4th grade or 5th grade or something, would I put that?</p>
<p>@livelaugh7 I think 8th grade is the farthest back you should go. 7h grade is ok but 5th grade would just be akward</p>
<p>@tigerman333 Alright thanks, just wanted to make sure.</p>
<p>Gosh sophomore year is such a huge step up compared to freshmen year. Ahhhh so stressed, sorry gotta rant. Last week was homecoming week, as a class officer I had so many things to do, count ballots for Royalty, hall decs planning and making, posters, and start Psychology club that Friday since im VP I have to be there. And I had a football game where I performed with marching band as colorguard, 2 days of three hour rehearsal not including Friday’s 6 hour rehearsal and show band rehearsal, 2 hour officer meeting for Psychology club, 5 unit test, and Band competition Saturday (woohoo 2nd overall but 1st in auxiliary:D)/homecoming in the evening. No time for homework though this week BETTER be a rest week. Does anyone know how to manage their time well and care to share their ways? Please:)</p>
<p>Haha I don’t manage. I just sort of… get by. And somehow manage to watch a substantial amount of homework overall.</p>
<p>@xxvintagexx We had a competition on Saturday too! Our auxiliary won second but our overall won first (however, there were only three schools in 5A for overall; but auxiliary was both 4A and 5A so it’s a bigger accomplishment). Our homecoming game is on Halloween (who designed that?) which means I won’t be able to go trick-or-treating. Not fun.</p>
<p>I have the SAT Bio on Saturday, and I’m only scoring ~760 on practice tests, which has me worried (the curve is steep enough that that’s not really a good score). I really want a 780+.</p>
<p>So we have a 4 day weekend coming up!!</p>
<p>Lucky. Our next one is in November (and even then, I have Science Bowl tryouts and a parade to go to). I might also have to teach a class (I haven’t checked).</p>