<p>I am seriously afraid for my own sanity. When I decided to take honors chem, i thought it would be challenging, but not this much so! I do hours of chemistry a night. I do almost every practice problem in the book, take color coded notes, do independant research, and i still am only averaging a B+ in the class! </p>
<p>My question is this: (and this may make me the butt of many a college confidential joke, but I beg of you, refrain from making fun of me, assume I know how ridiculous i sound.) Should I be worried about the possible repercussions of getting a B in Honors Chemistry if I want to go to a highly selective university?? (I want to major in international relations, which I know has nothing to do with Chemistry, but I like taking hard classes.) </p>
<p>Your opinions/sympathy are appreciated.
:-)</p>
<p>Pssh that's not bad that's pretty good! Don't worry about it me I took Chem. 2 AP, and i was always a borderline B/C but ended up with a B and I'm applying to USC! Besides you tutor African refugees which is very hot grades are important, but essays are the most important because schools want to see who you are and if you fit into their schools.</p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better--at my high school, honors chem was one of the hardest classes barring AP's, and AP Chem was probably the hardest class period. I think Chem is just a subject that's infamous for being difficult.</p>
<p>AHHHHHHHH I feel so sorry for you. I managed to escape regular Chemistry with a low B and never looked back. I can honestly say that's the only class in which I never learned one single thing.</p>
<p>I don't think a B would pull you down much though, unless you already have a lot of B's or C's.</p>
<p>I friggin hated Honors Chem... Easily my most difficult class in High School. This year I'm taking physics, and I'm actually having a really easy time with it- I got an A last semester (I got a C in honors chem).</p>
<p>yeah I took honors chem in 10th and it sucked. Especially considering my teacher was awful. All we did was play around in the lab, which was really fun, but then he'd give us random tests and everyone would fail. </p>
<p>dont sweat it, you still have time to improve, anything can happen. Don't worry about it right now, just do your best!</p>
<p>I found honors chem lots easier than like bio, spanish, geo honors all those. How much are you expected to memorize in your honors chem classes? We got to use posters for activity series and solubility rules, as well as monatomic anion and cation common charges. I'm curious what you found hard about it though?</p>
<p>we have to memorize everything. the polyatomic ions, the activity series, the ion charges, its insane. </p>
<p>but im not sure what it is. I normally memorize very well, but the class is just extremely difficult our teacher is a nazi about significant figures, and she takes off for every little thing (especially sig figs).</p>
<p>oh that sucks! my teacher took off for sig figs on the test about sig figs and maybe the next test after that, but then didn't care anymore. i think she learned sig figs are pointless. memorizing everything, ouch. we could pretty much talk our teacher out of pointless memorization. we got her to hold the philiosophy that if we become chemists in a lab in our futures we could easily google or look up this info instead of memorizing it and if we were really interested in it, we would have it memorized eventually anyways, but those who aren't interested should just know how to use it. if only i could get my bio and history teachers to follow that logic.</p>