@02gloves yea but it gets a little intimidating for me sometimes ^_^’
@BucketsUCSC Virginia Tech
@BucketsUCSC If you go to this website:http://www.ir.vt.edu/work_we_do/demo_enroll/admission/studentAdmission.html# you can see for yourself. Click SAT Scores, High School GPA and then scroll down to Engineering.
@ak2018 you must know that they will have a special system for weighing GPA like a 4.4 at your school is probabllly weighted down to a 3.9 or 4.0 for college admissions. Also since youre applying for engineering they will focus on math and science so take honors and AP’s in that field
Finally off for break! =D> Do y’all’s schools/classes do anything for the holidays? I had 3 parties this week and a gift exchange. Everyone brings so much food that it never gets finished at the parties so we all walk around with our big things of food trying to get people to eat it, but everyone’s too full to eat anything. Some clubs also did a holiday photo booth and cookie sale.
@Madeline25 my school just had exams this week 
@Madeline25 I don’t get out of school till Tuesday 
It kind of sucks, but we will be having a “party” in English class and will be playing apples to apples so we can learn “vocab”. It is funny because the teacher doesn’t really want to get in trouble for the party.
Another sucky thing is I have a meet the day after Christmas that is over 2 hours away. I will be leaving at like 8 AM and won’t be back till probably close to 10 PM.
Hope you all have a great vacation!! :-bd
@tonyk16 Our teachers are really just beyond the point of caring about school rules. A girl’s phone went off during a test and she answered the call, talked for a minute, then went back to taking her test. My teacher just kinda game her a look but didn’t do anything haha. That sucks that you don’t get out until next week. At least the last few days are usually kinda fun.
Does anyone have experience with AP Chem or Bio? I don’t know which one to take next year and already plan on taking Physics C when I’m a senior. Wish I could take all 3, but I have no space. :((
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@Hamlon What are you interested in?
@Hamlon A few of my senior friends are currently taking AP Bio and it´s tough, but they enjoy it. Personally, if I would do that one, but honestly, do whichever one interests you more or you´re most excited for. I´m taking AP Physics sometime in my high school career and AP Bio probably next year, along with another science…wait…that just gave me a thought. Do you get to decide which required science to take? If you do, I would suggest doing one of those along with another one for an elective (that´s what I´m doing), but if you´re school doesn´t let you do that, my advice still stands. Do whichever one you´re most excited for.
I’m currently loving break. Finally, I’m not so stressed.
@Hamlon
Ask people at your school how hard the classes are (<---- don’t know how many times I’ve said this on CC). Take the class that you are more interested in and can reasonably balance with the rest of your schedule.
@Hamlon I’ve heard Chemistry is harder than Biology, but that is just what I’ve heard. I’m taking AP Chemistry next year and regular Physics senior year.
@Hamlon I would recommend taking @IAmNotCreativ 's advice.
Oh and welcome to the thread @Tedalkfan ! 
For those of you who are taking AP Chem, would you recommend taking it without previous chem experience?
My school allows us to take it without a beginning of year of chemistry, but I don’t know how hard it would be for me to keep up.
I’d probably do some preparation work over the summer though.
@WishStar12 For my school we only have about seven or eight people in our AP chemistry class and about half have not taking regular chem so it really just depends. We also rotate AP Chem with AP physics so that could be a possible reason why some did not take regular. I have a friend in the class and he says it okay without having any chem under your belt, but he also said there was a summer assignment so yeah, you should be doing preparation work over the summer. If you are good in the sciences, and you think you can handle it in your schedule, you should do it. Ask some people who are taking it this year and see what they think about it. Good luck and study hard! :-bd
@WishStar12 I highly recommend NOT doing AP Chem without 1 year of Chem/Honors Chem/whatever beforehand. My school requires having taken Honors Chem before AP Chem since Honors essentially inculcates necessary concepts for being able to do chemistry (ex. Electron configuration, periodic trends, chemical equations) and gives exposure to harder topics covered in depth in AP later on (like ochem and acids/bases). And even with this, AP is still wicked hard, being one of the hardest classes at my school along with AP Stat, AP Physics C (the teachers for these classes are bad, the class averages are at around 60’s) and APUSH (so much content shoved into 90 days), regardless of the fact that the teacher for AP Chem is really good.
However, since your school does not require any prereqs for AP Chem, the introductory content is probably built into the class. I would, however, talk with the AP Chem teacher at your school just to clarify.
For those of you on winter break or about to go on it, how do you plan on making the most of the free time? I feel like there has to be a good way to make these next two weeks productive. I’ll likely start studying the rest of my chapter for Chemistry and start looking a few chapters ahead in math so I know if there is something I won’t immediately understand, but outside of further preparing for classes, are there any good ideas on how to spend the break?