<p>At my school, you pick your top 2 choices in each subject and then the teachers just make your schedule.</p>
<p>My school is small so we just pick some cores (well sometimes depending on your grade they are preselected) and 4 other classes (6 if you pick not to do a language) and put them in order of what you want. Wait until next year see your schedule if you don’t like it you have like 2days to request a change…</p>
<p>Give us a form, we fill out classes, confirm with Guidance Counselor, done.</p>
<p>We have ~3200 kids so everyone picks exactly which classes they want to take and then the school schedules the classes so it works for the most amount of people. Usually it works out fine.</p>
<p>Small-ish school (750 or so kids), so you put down the classes you’d like to take, then if there are any conflicts, you have to work them out with your guidance counselor. Usually works out well, either by chance or dumb luck; I ended up with a first period free this year somehow.</p>
<p>Big school (about 3000). The top kids (including me) just pick our classes and usually face 0 objections from the counselors; they don’t have time to really care anyway.</p>
<p>Big school (2000+ kids); they give us colored cards and we have to circle the classes that we want to take, or if they’re not on the card then we just write them on there.
Then we just give them to the counselors. Every year we have ~900/2000 kids with schedule conflicts. We have a new policy of “if it’s not corrected by July 1, consider yourself SOL”.</p>
<p>My school has an online form, it’s really easy to fill in because they list the 20 most common subject combinations.</p>
<p>I go to an extremely small high school (like 200. No joke), so scheduling can be a pain in the butt a lot of times. But normally, you sign up for your core classes with approval from your teacher in the subject that year and then you choose like your top 8 semesters worth of electives and hopefully you get the ones you want. But because the school is so small and there’s not much administration can actually do, there’s been a lot of conflicts with honors classes. So much so that for the class of 2014 on they’re dropping honors classes altogether. Sucks.</p>
<p>1) Get forms from English teacher.
2) Fill in class names. You need 2nd and 3rd choices for non-AP classes, but signing up for an AP class guarantees you a spot, assuming you satisfy prereqs.
3) Get teacher signatures, if needed, to verify prereqs/approval.
4) Turn in forms to math teacher.</p>
<p>Get a form with the classes we need to graduate in already printed in. It’s fun having to scratch this out with a pencil to change it to an AP/IB course. Honestly, is it really too daunting for the remedial students to write in “Economics”?</p>
<p>So you put in the classes you would like and then put in four alternatives. You come back in August to find that your entire schedule has been screwed up. My friend was put in three Geometry classes. Another friend, who had taken French for 3 years, was put in AP Spanish 4. I was given Anatomy as my second science instead of Physics.</p>
<p>Then, when you ask the counseling office to help you change your classes, they respond saying “Sorry, we cannot do any schedule changes for this semester.” You then have to have your parents call in and complain until you are finally given permission to go talk to your counselor. If you’re lucky, you will be placed in a class that you want (but most likely not what you signed up for.)</p>
<p>This is all 100% serious. I am not exaggerating in any way.</p>
<p>We dont even get to pick our classes at first.
We’re thrown into our core classes and then we get electives.
If we don’t like the electives…we then have to fight to change it.</p>
<p>We write down our classes and get them approved by teachers. Then we have meeting with counselor</p>
<p>We are a tiny school…</p>
<p>Everybody goes to core classes, and in junior/senior year, you can take one elective.</p>
<p>The upshot is that you can take college level courses online, and the school will sponsor it, once you max out in a subject.</p>
<p>As a student in IB, we’re very limited to our choices. </p>
<p>You can’t choose electives and if you do, they’re IB anyway. </p>
<p>When I was a sophomore, here were my options for junior year:</p>
<p>IB History of the Americas
IB Japanese 2
IB English 1
IB Economics
IB Environmental Science/ IB Biology
IB Math 2/ AP Calculus </p>
<p>As you can see, not very many options…</p>
<p>All you did was fill in the classes that you wanted to take, and the counselors would pick your class order, teacher, and classmates for you. </p>
<p>Also, I got to a relatively small school with around 1500 students, yet the counselors always seem to make a ton of errors. :</p>
<p>We have about 750 students, and we just pick our courses. No teacher signatures, no waiting lists. There are sometimes scheduling problems–a couple of people had to drop AP Calc because there was only one section. But, the counseling office is generally pretty flexible. They actually created a new class for my best friend and me this year. :D</p>
<p>2000-ish students.</p>
<p>In mid-January, teachers recommend you for core classes. Late Jan, choose electives. Mid-march, you can change your teachers’ recommendations by getting a waiver and having your parents sign it. They do scheduling, pick up the schedule late July and since the counselors usually eff it up, you can wait in a really long line and get it fixed. AND, you have a two week grace period at the beginning of school if you like your class. It’s pretty student-choice oriented.</p>
<p>You sign up for an English and a math. Then you choose a science or a history if you want. Then you choose your foreign language. Then you choose your electives.</p>
<p>You jsut don’t sign up for more than 7 and you should get your choices.</p>
<p>I had never actually seen a scheduling disaster at my school until this year.</p>
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<p>Do tell.</p>
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<p>we get a form, fill it out, and the guidance counselor approves</p>