How does my future high school schedule look?

Applying to College
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<p>Okay, I'm only in 8th grade, but all my friends already go on here, and I thought it'd be cool to get some advice. How does my high school schedule look?
9th grade
Biology Honors
US History Honors
English Honors
Spanish Honors
Algebra 2 Honors
Band
Financial Literacy/Health
Gym</p>

<p>10th
Physics Honors (Taking Chem over the summer)
World His. Honors
English Honors
AP Calc BC (Taking Pre calc over summer)
Spanish Honors
Health/Gym
Pre-AP Gov H
Band</p>

<p>11th
AP Chem
AP Stat
AP Gov
APUSH
AP Eng Lang
AP Spanish Lang
Band
Health/Gym
I don't really know about 12th, it depends on 11th. So, what do you think? Is it rigorous enough?</p>

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<p>It seems pretty rigorous. But only a rigorous schedule isn’t enough to get you into an Ivy or any top school, and that’s what you seem to be aiming for.</p>

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<p>Actually, I also got a 2250 on my January SATs. I was talking with my counselor, and she told me to work to an Ivy/Stanford school…</p>

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<p>PoliticalProtege,</p>

<p>Your schedule looks fine for now. Just be sure to talk it over with your guidance counselor to be sure that you meet any specific graduation requirements for your school district.</p>

<p>The other thing that it isn’t too early to ask about is the money. Sit your parents down and find out just exactly how much money will be available for your education. If you are going to need to get nearly perfect grades in order to qualify for merit-based scholarships, you need to know that now. Not in two or three years. If your parents don’t have a clue about the financial aid process, or they don’t know how much colleges will expect them to pay (most parents don’t), have them run the calculators at [FinAid</a> | Calculators | Expected Family Contribution (EFC) and Financial Aid](<a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Expected Family Contribution (EFC) Calculator - Finaid) and read through some of the other information at that website. You could also point them to the Financial Aid and Parents Forums here. You don’t have to share your login. They can get their own.</p>

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<p>^^^what are you talking about</p>

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<p>^Thanks. We’ve been talking about payments for a while, and we’ve decided they’ll match my payment. But I’ll let them know about those forums anyway.
It does meet my requirements, and its the suggested schedule from my counselor. I want to go into the social sciences, and my dream school is Georgetown.</p>

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<p>PoliticalProtege,</p>

<p>It’s good to know that your parents are on top of this. Every single year there are several broken-hearted parents who appear in the Financial Aid and Parents Forums in April, to lament that they have only then found out that they can’t afford the college that their child wants to attend. There also are always a bunch of “I didn’t get in anywhere I can afford” and “How am I going to pay for College X” threads started by students. It really is important for you and your parents to know about this stuff now, so you won’t have that problem in four years!</p>

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<p>2250? Wow. That’s pretty incredible. What was the breakdown?</p>

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<p>You are likely to have scheduling conflicts in your junior year trying to fit in 6 APs. You could check with counselor to see the time slots those classes are offered this year to get a sense of the probable time conflicts.<br>
However, you are still an 8th grader, so you can worry about that in two years.</p>

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<p>I actually had this schedule run by my counselor, and she promised that there would be no scheduling conflicts.</p>

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<p>^ That’s good, but who knows what will happen? You can also see if you want to do dual enrollment with a community college.</p>

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<p>And beatlesdisturbed, I got an 800 in CR, 750 in M, and 700 in W. 9 on the essay.</p>

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<p>That’s pretty cool.</p>

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<p>Hey Political! I think your schedule looks great (but this is coming from another eighth grader soo…) IDK what your school offers but you seem like the type who’ll take the best classes!
Your SAT score is really good. When i took it at the beginning of seventh grade I got like a 2050 (i think). I took the ACT and PSAT this year and my scores were a 31 and 2110, so ya. Have you taken those as yet? They say the sooner the better!
But everything seems good. And congrats on being proactive and planning ahead!</p>

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<p>lol parents always love to bring up financial issues in admission threads. No matter the question, they will talk about finances. Just goes to show how traumatizing college payments are haha.</p>

<p>But anyway, to the OP, I would say you’re getting ahead of yourself planning a junior year schedule. You don’t really know how your interests will change over time. Either way, you got a solid HS career going, and with a 2250 in 8th grade, there’s very little that could go wrong…</p>

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<p>this is insane that kids plan their high school this early…</p>

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<p>Haha, well, my counselor says its necessary.</p>

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<p>I planned out a lot of my high school courses when I was in 8th grade as well. It’s good to see that you’re doing it. A piece of warning: be prepared to change your expectations/courseload in the future. You really do change a lot in high school. I know kids that were expecting to blow off their high school years and ended up graduating in the top of the class, and I know others (including myself) that expected to take almost all AP classes and ended up majorly sucking as students.</p>