<p>I'm new to posting on this site (been lurking it for a good amount of time now), and I wasn't sure if I should make a new thread or not. If this is supposed to be placed in another thread as a post, please post a link to be redirected to before flaming, please :)</p>
<p>I've just started my Sophomore year in High School, and this is what I've been taking, will(hope) to take..</p>
<p>Freshman:
Honors Conceptual Physics
Honors Geometry
Honors English I
Spanish I
Graphic Design I
P.E (required)</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Honors Bio
Honors Algebra II
Honors English II
Honors Spanish II
Graphic Design II
AP European History (only AP class offered to Sophomores at my school)</p>
<p>Summer between Sophomore and Junior years:
Pre-Calc
Self-Studying Spanish III</p>
<p>Junior:
Honors Chem
AP Physics
AP English Language
Honors Spanish IV
AP Calc AB
AP US History</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP Senior Language
AP Spanish 9-10(5)
AP Calc BC
AP Econ/Gov</p>
<p>*Please note I play AAA Hockey (highest level), Varsity A on my school's team, and will be joining a few clubs for interest (Key Club, Debate, might start a club). Also, for people with experience in Pre-Calc/Spanish..would it be a good route to attend Pre-Calc as a summer course, or is it an essential class in setting me up for AP Calc? (I guess it's essential, but is it something I could learn sufficiently enough in 6 weeks of summer school?) As for Spanish, was III or IV an easier class to get through, to prepare me for the rigour 9-10(5) AP is made out to be at my school? That's just so I know to either self-study III, and take a full year of IV, or vice versa.</p>
<p>That’s actually a pretty good schedule. I think it is essential for you to do Pre-Calc in school and then let your teacher recommend you for AP Calc. You should talk to your conselor</p>
<p>Muzick_Lvr, do you think it’s something I could learn enough to put me into AB over a 6 week period, with some extra self-studying the other 2 or so months I have in Summer?</p>
<p>This is my friends post, and we have the exact same schedule, math does come relatively easy for us, thats why we think we would be able to study pre calc over the summer, but our school only offers summer school for spanish up to spanish 2, does anybody know any better or equal alternatives?</p>
<p>For Spanish, it depends on how the Spanish track goes at your school. For example, at my school Spanish 2 (where I started) we learned preterite, imperfect, perfect, and progressive tenses. I could have probably learned that myself. Spanish 3 we learned subjunctive tenses which I thought were harder.</p>
<p>I took AP Spanish Lang the next year and it was just tense review and more practical stuff. If you’re looking for what you need for AP, you will need to know all the tenses, but more than that you will need to be almost fluent in listening, reading, writing, and speaking if you want to do well on the test specifically.</p>
<p>Advice: Ask the head of Spanish department at your school. I’m sure she would have the best advice.</p>
<p>You don’t know how many times I’ve been called crazy, stupid, an idiot for taking this path during high school. But, this is basically the highest course path our school has to offer (that is, if I don’t take some crazy Math class, and have to attend another campus, or college to take it). I like the rigor, feeling of being busy. MIT, I would’ve liked to take more my Junior year, and have eased up Senior, but all of the Honors science classes are prereq for the AP (obv.), and that’s the order we have to take Social Studies if you’re staying on the AP track.</p>
<p>To Nulli, yes I am looking to get scouted for hockey (either a Major Junior team, or to aid my hopes of going to a prestigious University. Also, to Cackalacky, I was browsing that schedule thread, and some of those people have schedules that look 2-3x harder in terms of effort and rigor</p>