<p>The limit at my school is 6 Academic classes, and I'm taking 5.</p>
<p>Honors Algebra 2/Trig
Honors English 10
AP European History
AP Human Geography
AP Chemistry
Online P.E. (Outside of school, no impact on GPA.)</p>
<p>I can get a 5.0 GPA next year, but I see lots of people with 8 classes. Will this be a disadvantage for me? Or do Universities only care about the quality of the classes and rank?</p>
<p>How do you take P.E. online? Do you mean at a CC?</p>
<p>I think you might want to take a language. Taking a year’s break with a language might be difficult.</p>
<p>definately take a language.
online p.e.?
how does that work?
maybe squeeze in a class like art or music.
hey their easy, and it helps you look better</p>
<p>Online P.E. is like…the most paradoxical thing. Care to explain that?</p>
<p>And definitely shoot for a language. If you say that 6 is the limit at your school then you should be taking 6, Yale looks to see that you’ve made the most of what was offered to you.</p>
<p>Taking a year’s break with a language is absolutely the worst thing you can do.</p>
<p>As for online p.e., I’m assuming it’s actual “physical education” and not gym? Learning about how muscles and joints and stuff work, perhaps? Something like physiology…</p>
<p>Well, the thing about the language is… My school doesn’t offer Honors Spanish. I took Spanish 1 last year. But if I take Spanish 101 over the Summer at College of the Canyons, which is a combination of Spanish 1 and 2, then not only will I have a head start, but it will be worth 5 grade points.</p>
<p>About the language thing: a girl from my school took a break for a year so she could take AP Bio and AP chem, resumed Spanish her senior year, and is currently at Yale.</p>
<p>As a sophomore it’s not too late with the whole language thing. I took honors Latin as a freshman and it was basically Latin 1 and 2. Then my teacher fell ill at the end of the year and I was force to start spanish from Spanish 1 as a sophomore. Now I’m taking Spanish 4 as an ACE course so it’s not too late to start a language if that’s what you’re worried about</p>
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<p>She took a break to pursue harder courses, not online P.E. ;)</p>
<p>^Truth. </p>
<p>Seriously though, WHAT is online P.E.?! I’m dying of curiosity here…like the cat.</p>
<p>You have to take a P.E. class. I’m taking online P.E. because it’s pass/fail and doesn’t count against my GPA. (P.E. is only a 4 at max.) Umm… I really don’t know. It’s at BYU online. I have no idea how they’re going to make sure that I actually do the exercise…</p>
<p>I was so uncomfortable about it that I added another class.</p>
<p>AP Physics
Honors Algebra 2/Trig
Honors English
AP European History
AP Human Geography
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>My concern now is that this is too heavy. Thoughts? How much will I have to study every night?</p>
<p>Which physics are we talking? B or C?</p>
<p>And do you have any foundation in chemistry? Because if you don’t, it will be quite a bit of work. I absolutely love chemistry, but it definitely requires diligent work habits. As for physics, you need to come to class prepared to not understand at least a quarter of the material. This can all be fixed, but it requires a lot of work.</p>
<p>Human Geo is fairly simple, and Euro just has some memorization, but it’s still pretty interesting. Depending on how much reading you’ll have from English, you’ll probably be able to balance all of this fairly easily. It’s definitely a rigorous courseload for a sophomore!</p>
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Physics B. I don’t have any previous experience in chemistry, I was let in along with only 5 others Sophomores because I was the #1 student in Honors Biology last year. So is Physics easy, or did I understand you incorrectly? How many hours would you recommend me studying a day? (Counting homework.) Is this worthy of HYPSM?</p>
<p>Nothing is “worthy” of HYPSM…those kinds of questions are kind of bottomless because everyone who got in has a completely unique story unto themselves. </p>
<p>Physics is not easy. And I am biased since I personally hate physics, but even my friends who click their heels with joy when their Physics period rolls around admit that it’s an immensely heavy course load and very difficult material to understand. It requires a lot of focus, self-motivation, and diligence. You can do it, but you need to be prepared to expend that kind of energy on this class and realize that you cannot do that for all your classes otherwise you’ll be left with nothing but a chalk outline of yourself on the sidewalk.</p>
<p>You know, you could survive with such a courseload, but I think it might be a better idea to make it a bit lighter and find an EC you could do in place of whatever tough class you drop. After a certain point, you will have proven that you can handle difficult academics, but, quite frankly, half of Yale’s applicant pool will have proven exactly the same thing. Find something else to set you apart.</p>
<p>Aaaand, if you take all the difficult classes in 10th grade, what will you do for the remaining two years? You definitely don’t want to show admissions officers that you’ve stopped working after your sophomore year.</p>
<p>Alllllsooo. Take a language. </p>
<p>'Nough said.</p>
<p>Please take a language. </p>
<p>AP Human Geography is like…the easiest AP class offered. Extremely interesting though. Not sure about the teacher at your school but it was super easy at my school…can’t really see how you can make it much harder. The material is real simple.</p>
<p>If you havn’t had physics or chemistry before, I wouldn’t take both in the same year. Both have heavy workloads though Physics B isn’t quite as bad. AP Chem without any chem background is going to be quite tough though.</p>
<p>That being said I agree with all the rest. Take a language!</p>
<p>Take a language and split your two new sciences between this year and junior year, and then senior year you can go CRAZY. Lol. </p>
<p>No but seriously, man. It’s not like…IMPERATIVE that you take a language, because clearly there’s anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but you really wouldn’t be wandering ANY sort of slippery slope by taking that language. And also just in LIFE (gasp, you mean there’s life OTHER than Yale!!!) it’s quite useful to be bi, or tri, etc. lingual.</p>
<p>Well, the thing is that I can take a language at a Community College this summer and it counts as a 5.0. It combines both Spanish 1 and 2, so I’ll have a head start. They don’t offer Honors Spanish at my school.</p>