<p>Alright, I inspire to get the most rigorous courseload in my class.</p>
<p>So, in all 4 years of high school, I would have to make up 7 APs, 15 honors classes.
Problem is my school doesn't give credit for taking classes at other schools, even community college or my local university student programs.</p>
<p>If things go well, and I maintain a good average in my current honors class, I will be in 3 honors classes by graduation, but that's pretty weak, compared 7 APs, 15 Honors classes.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for me to make up this gap or should I just live with it?</p>
<p>(I've been thinking about self-study APs, but I don't how much would be necessary.)</p>
<p>Just do the most rigorous you can. Keep taking duel enrollment classes at another college. Your high school may not care, but the colleges you apply to will. </p>
<p>And tell us HOW you will ONLY end up with 3 Honors by graduation if you’re still a freshman? Most don’t even start taking AP until Junior year.</p>
<p>Because you must be in an Honors class and have a 97 average or better in that subject or area to be in an AP class. I only have around a 93 in the honors class I am taking (history).</p>
<p>You actually really do need a 97 in an honors class to be in AP. It’s true. And problem is there are probably around 35% (20 students) of all honors students do get a 97 or above in an honors course, because of high grade inflation. </p>
<p>Each AP has one class. One class=around 20 students.</p>
<p>They screw you over in freshman year from taking APs already even if you have A in a prerequisite Honors class? You not getting 97% goes from not being able to take APs and 15 honors to only being able to take 3 honors by graduation?</p>
<p>I’m out. I can’t help anymore This is too weird. </p>
<p>I’d say live with it if it’s too late. But it’s worth trying for 97% until the last card is played.</p>
<p>Screw GPA requirements; grades are completely arbitrarily assigned half of the time and are worthless indicators of student quality. Class rank and performance in nationally recognized contests/competitions (NOT including standardized tests) are the only “honest” ways of discerning student quality, but sadly colleges do not weigh them as heavily as they ought to. (The grades in my APUSH class are so severe that most people who get 5s end up with a C+/B-/B final year grade. Does it screw them over in their college applications? Yes. But it goes to show how much a teacher-assigned number really means.)</p>
<p>As for AP/Honors performance… Just take the AP exams without official enrollment in a corresponding course. Lots of AP exams are ridiculously easy to get 5s on (Statistics, Computer Science A/AB (AB was a joke, too bad it was cancelled), Macro/microeconomics if you read the textbook, Chemistry, Physics, Calculus AB/BC, and a few more that I can’t get off the top of my head). So try your best and it’ll work out even if your school has a ■■■■■■■■ GPA requirement for advanced classes.</p>
<p>It depends… just don’t drown yourself with individual AP study, and by that I mean, don’t study for 5 AP courses while concurrently taking an additional 5 honors/regular courses, and doing 10 different EC’s. Have a realistic approach, and make an academic schedule that’s both rigorous, as well as feasible.</p>
<p>Bad part:
No class rank.
Ridiculous requirements.
50% of class has a 90 average or better.</p>
<p>Good. I just hope my school, actually lets me take AP exams. They probably will hate me for it. However, if things don’t work out, I don’t need to go to Harvard or anything. I can go to a SUNY school, or community college. The best will be my local university aka Syracuse.</p>
<p>Not only do I have to make up for a weak courseload, I have to make up for </p>
<p>-My race. Asian who has parents who want her to go to community college.
-My grades. A 94 weighted average used to be great to me, but not anymore…
-My test scores. 18 PLAN, 152 PSAT. Crap!!!
-My EC’s. I have no specific talent. I tried my best.</p>
<p>Never let these things discourage you, no matter how disappointing they may seem (I know what the race/parents thing feels like)! While I can’t honestly say that you are doing particularly well, please dedicate more effort to your studies! An extra hour or two spent studying a day makes a HUGE difference. </p>
<p>Besides, talents aren’t bestowed, they are developed ;). Find something you’re interested in and work on it!</p>
<p>I never understood the “studying for exams” paradigm. Either you know something or you don’t know something. You can’t just study for an exam. You have to study to assimilate and know the information classes are meant to teach you. If you keep in mind that studying has the goal of improving personal constitution rather than receiving larger scalar quantities on pieces of dead trees, I guarantee you that it’ll be far more productive, with the side-effect of improving your exam grades since you now know what the heck they’re talking about instead of trying to recall pages upon pages of haphazardly memorized information.</p>
<p>Okay, I found out that I have an option to be moving up to English Honors, next year. I have horrible time management skills and reading comprehension. I don’t think I should take it. How about you guys? Take it or not take it?</p>