High School Schedule(SHOOT ME)

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hey other people who spend their time on CC. </p>

<p>IF YOU WANT FEEL FREE TO SKIP DOWN TO THE SCHEDULES. :D</p>

<p>What do you think of my most probable schedule for the rest of my high school life? My school(no i'm not telling you. don't want any ax murderers standing over my bed one day.) makes us plan out our schedules for all 4 years, and submit it to our counselors. We have a 75% chance that the classes we wrote down are what we will get for each year, unless we epically(I feel like I spelled this wrong) fail, the class gets canceled, or we submit a written and verbal request with our parents present to switch classes. Sucks doesn't it?</p>

<p>Anyways.....what do you think of my schedule sophomore through senior year? Doable? Or not?</p>

<p>BTW, I will not be able to play any sports sadly. I love them, but I have a situation at home that leaves me unable to play, and travel. </p>

<p>I will be taking Driver's Ed between Sophomore & Junior year, so I'll be about 16 and a half when I get my license.</p>

<p>I probably will have to get a part-time job during the school year, and summer. I currently volunteer at the hospital. I'm starting a service club that I thought of at my school next year, so hopefully that works out well. </p>

<p>Wooo, that was long! Time for the schedules.</p>

<p>Possible Schedule for Sophomore Year:
Physics Honors
Geometry Honors
English 2 Honors
Civics & Economics Honors
Chemistry Honors
Holocaust & Genocide Honors
Spanish 2</p>

<p>I'll probably self study for AP Env. in the summer. Also will be taking Music Appreciation online.</p>

<p>Possible Schedule for Junior Year:
AP Physics
AP Biology
Pre-Cal Honors
US History Honors
AP English 1
Spanish 3 Honors
AP US History</p>

<p>Will be taking AP Psychology online during the summer. </p>

<p>Possible Senior Year Schedule:
AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC
AP English 2
AP Chemistry
AP Spanish 1
AP European History
-I only have 7 here, because we're allowed Senior year to take 7 courses-</p>

<p>Is this too much? Or am I over-obsessively worrying? Is there anything I put on my schedule, that I would be better with without it?</p>

<p>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME!</p>

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<p>Your schedule is fine. Do not worry, at all. If you worry, you will end up complaining. If you end up complaining, you will not enjoy studying. If you do not enjoy studying, you will not study. If you do not study, your schedule will be hard ;D </p>

<p>“AP Calc AB
AP Calc BC”</p>

<p>You can not take both AP tests in the same year. Maybe you can take AB, and self study the BC portion. Possibly you can take pre-calc/AP calc your junior year and BC your senior year. That really depends how your school runs pre-calc/ab.</p>

<p>“Civics & Economics Honors
Holocaust & Genocide Honors”</p>

<p>If you are not that interested in these classes, you should drop them/replace.</p>

<p>The only regret I have(as a rising junior) is not taking more AP classes early on. My school has a ‘typical’ AP course guide that most of the AP students take. Don’t fall for the typical AP courses. You can always self study!!!</p>

<p>Goodluck, you can do it.</p>

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<p>Where is Algebra II? You skip from Geometry Honors to Precalculus honors.</p>

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<p>^In some schools, geometry comes after algebra II.</p>

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<p>^^^Civics & Econ are is a requisite class, though you can take it online. Holocaust and Genocide sounds depressing, though I’d probably take it because history is great.</p>

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<p>It’s not that horrible. :)</p>

<p>You’ll learn about time management, so it’ll be easier.</p>

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<p>Don’t do illegitimate BS classes of self-studies over the summer. AP psych and envsci are both BS classes that can be done in a week or less. It is also unclear from your schedule what interests you.</p>

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<p>Honors US History and AP US History? Why?</p>

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<p>Someone in my class took AP and Hons English. ***?</p>

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<p>^Maybe the AP was lit and honors was writing? </p>

<p>And OP just stop planning your life out. Take it one year as a time. Seriously.</p>

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<p>^All of my friends, many of whom very much take it easy, and I loved getting the new course guides every year and circling what courses we would take for the rest of our HS career, even when we were 7th graders. We found it delightful. Of course, we never took it at all seriously, nor stuck to our selections to any degree.</p>

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<p>^Sorry I should have phrased it better. I meant there’s no need to be freaking out about it yet. </p>

<p>I planned them all out too (for high school and college), but there’s no reason to post about it and over-obsess. (Which the OP asked us if he/she was doing).</p>

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<p>@ElMastermind: Great advice! Hmmm…I don’t know much about AP Calc AB & BC. All I’m aware of is that most students at my school take both the same year. Civics is a required course where I live. Holocaust & Genocide was just something I found interesting. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>@Puggly123: Woops, looks like I forgot to put my freshmen schedule. I took Alg 2 Honors freshmen year. Just like @Millancad said. :)</p>

<p>@Rayna3: I wish time management skills fell from the sky, because I have none. :(</p>

<p>@Ilikeyou: Hmm…I saw a friends AP Env. book earlier today, and it doesn’t seem that tough. Ecology is mostly common sense to me. I heard that the AP Psych exam was reading and writing intense, and would be harder to self-study for. However, I do think that would be easier than memorizing a whole bunch of dates and facts. I’m not too sure what my interests are. I know, I know, that sounds bad. I’m still trying to figure myself out.</p>

<p>@10iswarrior: My school requires us to take World History, Civics & Economics, and US History before taking any AP history courses. </p>

<p>@romanigypsieyes: Wish I didn’t have to plan my life out. :confused: In middle school we chose our classes for freshmen year, but at the end of freshmen year, depending on our grades we had to choose “cores” for the rest of our high school career. The guidance counselors at my school apparently find that that method motivates students to do better. The rest of our schedules will be based on the core classes we chose.</p>

<p>@Millancad: I loved that feeling too! Until one day, you realize that your counselors were serious…</p>

<p>@Romanigypsyeyes: I’m glad for your opinion:) I’m not “planning” them out for me, and freaking out. It was something I actually had to submit, get my parent’s to sign, and have my guidance counselor put into the system. I turned the form with all of the above in two weeks before freshmen year ended. Hahaha, I guess I am over-obsessing. I always thought I wouldn’t have to take more than five or six AP’s, but when I counted them all I just got stressed and started worrying. </p>

<p>Thanks for reading and responding everyone! You guys make me feel so much better. :)</p>

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<p>^ AP Psych is not writing intense at all. It’s not even like a formal essay. They grade you by seeing if you included this and that fact. Read the Barrons book to see what I mean. I literally didn’t even finish half of the free responses and still got a 4. AP Psych is one of the easiest APs. And once you take APUSH, you’ll definitely think that the reading for Psych is nothing. A prep book is way better than finishing a textbook. Trust me, you don’t need an online course. Good luck with all your planning! :)</p>

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<p>Wooo, thank you so much! That makes me feel better. Are the Barron’s books good for all AP courses, or is there any other prep books you would recommend?</p>

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<p>Well there’s not one brand of prep book that’s the great for everything. I can testify to the effectiveness of AMSCO for APUSH and Barrons for Psych. Eng 1…eh…didn’t really prepare on my own. xP But people have said Cliff Notes is good for it. Go to the AP forum; they have a thread with a list of the best prep books for each AP.</p>

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<p>Thanks! I’ll be sure to check the AP forum out.</p>

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<p>‘@ElMastermind: Great advice! Hmmm…I don’t know much about AP Calc AB & BC. All I’m aware of is that most students at my school take both the same year. Civics is a required course where I live. Holocaust & Genocide was just something I found interesting.’</p>

<p>I guess they just take the BC test. If doesn’t hurt to take both the AB and BC tests-in different years that much.</p>

<p>Ahh. Yeh if you seem Holocaust & Genocide will be interesting you should definately take it!</p>

<p>I wrote about an instance where I took a class I though I would like, but deleted it. It turned out with grades in the low 90s. (No tests/teacher decides) </p>

<p>If there aren’t alot of tests, be sure to contribute to talks, and do VERY well on projects.</p>

<p>Also, there is an AP section of the forum. [AP</a> Tests Preparation - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/]AP”>AP Test Preparation - College Confidential Forums)</p>

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<p>Couple things stand out to me

  1. WHy would you take US history honors and apush at the same time? and
    2 You can’t take calc AB and BC at the same time–you have to learn the AB material then move on to BC</p>
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<p>also, definitely for APUSH get “collins college outlines” best book by far its not specifically for AP tests but breaks down every single term/event chronologicaly into a small paragraph, also with overarching summary. comes in two volumes. seriously!</p>