<p>Alright, here’s one:</p>
<p>What if your school offers only 2 AP’s and a limited amount of college classes that are restricted to all students but seniors and you’ve taken the hardest classes allowed by the curriculum your freshman through junior years and maintained a really high average in those classes.</p>
<p>do you still have a shot at penn?
let me know, i’m thinking this could be a problem.</p>
<p>if you've taken advantage of everything your school has to offer, taken the hardest curriculum available, and have good grades, then "ideally" it should not be a problem...penn has to know though that that's all that your school offers.</p>
<p>thanks man.</p>
<p>yes. my school only offered US History AP junior year...i had to cram all my AP's into this year. What they're looking for is that coveted MRA on your GC's form...where they check of "Most Rigorous Available" for courseload. As long as you're always challenging yourself, it's good</p>
<p>my school has no aps offered until senior year when 4 are available.</p>
<p>so i took them all. i tried to tell kids applying to top schools that they need the MRA, but no no no don't listen to me...</p>
<p>gah i know. here's the dilly-yo at my school. (and my use of dilly-yo was purely ironic).</p>
<p>freshman year everyone takes regular. then sophomore year, advanced. advanced is prerequisite to junior year's honors...and honors are prerequisite to senior year AP's.</p>
<p>except a lot of kids sign these "waivers" that basically say, I get to take an honors/AP class without qualifying (not only did you have to take prerequisites but also had to pass a qualifier). so me, i took advanced, honors, AP, qualified for all of them. advanced sucked the most b/c it was harder classes and no GPA compensation...</p>
<p>1st day of school junior year. honors differential calc/trig.
Me: "[Person Notorious For Slacking], what the hell are you doing in here?"
PNFS: "I waived in from regular math."</p>
<p>That's right. I suffered all year through the school's hardest course (the teacher was realllly good but even more difficult) and emerged still alive with a B. PNFS took regular math, got an A+, and is now in honors math. AND RANKED AHEAD OF ME.</p>
<p>hence my panic attack that my MRA would be for naught because i'd be ranked top 15% as a result of those stupid waiver kids. hopefully they take the MRA seriously though...</p>
<p>thats not cool.</p>
<p>in freshman year you come in taking honors classes. it gets determined by how well you do on the entrance test.</p>
<p>so freshman, sophomore and junior year you have honors classes. senior year is honors and APs</p>
<p>lucky byatch.</p>
<p>i hope your school doesn't offer Joke APs though. Like Psych and Stat. so many people signed up for them being like YAY APs! and then realized that colleges are like 'okay ap psych and ap stat...obviously a slacker moron.' and then promptly killed themselves are rushed to guidance to switch to Gov, MEH and Calc.</p>
<p>nope we have english, bio, calc and history...</p>
<p>not joke ap's...</p>
<p>or it would seem so. theyre all pretty easy classes. except bio... theres just so much material to cover so quickly its a little overwhelming. but i did well on my genetics test today</p>
<p>i know. bio is tough no matter what...our valedictorian pulled off an 89.7. so i felt pretty damn pleased with my 89 lol</p>
<p>yeah i hate bio.</p>
<p>if it wasnt ap i wouldnt have taken it.... but alas.... im an ap whore.</p>
<p>hahahaha omg me too! i was in AP Spanish and had no desire to be there...then i got to the class. 10 kids...4 were silent native speakers, 4 were craaaazy overachievers (salutatorian and not-quite-salutatorian). it was awful. TORTURE. i finally ran to my GC and begged to be put into 20th Century Fic...sacrificed my 5th AP for an Honors because it was unbearable. i'm really glad, too. another girl left and then one of the SNSS's moved away, so there are 7 people. if 2 are absent they have free period b/c they can't do anything w/5 lol</p>
<p>thats kinda cool... the whole free period thing.</p>
<p>the smallest class i ever had was my french 3 class it had 11 people. my latin 2 class had like 42 kids though... because it had all the juniors and seniors taking latin together, learning the same stuff. the teacher taught on two year cycles to compensate for this...</p>
<p>hehe i have such a weird mixture of big and little classes. AP Eng is huge. Physics last year and Math last year were 12. TCF is 11. And AP Bio is 27...b/c only 2 people signed up for AP Physics and 3 for AP Chem, so they couldn't run either of the crappier sciences (read: sciences with AWFUL AWFUL teachers). the chemmers and phylites ended up in our Bio class, and a bunch of asses waived in. so our class was supposed to be 15 and ended up 27. the teacher was FURIOUS...he had to order new really expensive college bio textbooks, adn there's only enough room in the lab for 24...man he was ****ed lol</p>
<p>yeah my calc class has too many. he anticipated people dropping it which usually happens. he made the first month really hard to encourage people to drop it lol. but no one did so the class is pretty big - like 30 kids.</p>
<p>most of my honors classes had 35 students though...</p>
<p>my only class that exceeds 30 is Concert Choir, because we have the huge classroom.</p>
<p>then bio...and last year's honors english was enormous, we had people sharing desks and sitting on the window sill all year! (in case you hadn't noticed our school has a huge overcrowding problem lol)</p>
<p>my school is meant to hold 800 students and we have 950 or something like that...</p>
<p>they overcrowded it on purpose to show why we need to expand...</p>
<p>by the way, my high school is the oldest catholic high school in north america!!!</p>
<p>woot woot</p>
<p>wowza, mine was built by the government during the FDR administration. i can feel how much you care :)</p>
<p>cool, yay for mass production!!</p>