Can’t believe you’ll be paying $828 (9x92) for all those APs
If you are taking Calculus, why not take Physics C? People tend to do well in the harder versions of their favorite subjects. I also don’t see a single fun elective. Are some of these classes semester courses? I would really consider dropping 2 of your history/social science classes for something you are actually interested in.
We are required to take economics. It’s either academic or AP Macro.
The only courses that are semester courses are Gov and Macroeconomics. I have a total of 8 class periods.
Also, Physics C isn’t offered. The counselors don’t like the idea.
^Seconded.
A 76 and higher in precalc gets you into AP Calc BC?? We have to have 90< in Trig/PreCalc to get into AP Calc AB. Lucky!
And I’ll be paying about $90. We get a reduced price if we fall under the federal free/reduced lunch program.
I mean, the 76+ thing wast a problem since I ended up with a 97 average.
why not take academic instead of AP?
Because I experienced two academic classes my freshman year.
It ended with my being shoved against a wall because of a fight that broke out while I was nearby. I don’t like academic classes. Especially not at my school. Even in my floral design class, a guy walked in trying to fight another guy and shoved and punched anyone in his way, including the substitute teacher.
You’ll have to signal in your brag sheet for your guidance counselor that you tookbthe most advancedblanguagebofferwd at your school.
Since you’re free lunch/reduced, are you applying through QuestBridge? You really should. You pretty much get first crack at 8 schools ed and get a 4-year full ride guaranteed at any of their schools. The process to be allowed into Questbrisgw is pretty selective though.
Is there any way you can take some classes via dual enrollment at a community college instead of “piling up APs” which many tip colleges don’t like?
Is there a way for you to take some of the required classes at a community college? Taking Ap physics, Ap chem, and Ap bio is complete madness. Please unserstand college adcoms won’t be impressed, they’ll think it complete hubris.
Since academic classes are out of the question, let’s see which if these classes you can take at a community college and which are left to be taken as ap.
Questbridge kind of seemed discouraging to me, quite honestly. I did become a College Prep scholar, but there are so few chances of you getting accepted through Questbridge that I’d rather not risk it.
At a community college, we are only allowed to take speech or Spanish. I have both of those credits. The rest of the classes taken at a community college are dual enrollment.
No, I’m not really doing it to impress anyone. At first, I thought about it in passing, which is why this post was created, but after having to take out my EMT course (the teacher quit), I was given another chance to choose my schedule. I chose this one. There are a lot of areas I’m interested in exploring. European History is one of the few areas of history I excelled in while in AP World History. I found it intriguing. Chemistry is the only one I’m willing to let go. My sophomore chemistry teacher didn’t make the subject pleasant. I somehow made it throughout the year with an A without knowing a single thing. Biology is a topic that I did grow to like freshman year after I realized that high school wasn’t an evil place and my biology teacher really wasn’t out to get us. And, as you know, my main area of interest is physics.
All of the others are required courses that I have the choice of having either AP or academic.
It’d be pretty worrying if I was just doing to see what admissions counselors would think. Then I wouldn’t be having any fun at all senior year.
I’m not sure what you mean about Questbridge. You sound like you love learning and that you’d welcome a full ride at a university where students feel the same. best don’t see a downside to QB. You’re not prevented from applyong to your flagship or to public universities’ honors programs. But most Questbridge universities offer lower income students better packages than what their public university does. In addition you already did the a holar prep work so I don’t see the downside.
Let go of ap chem and inquire about the process involved if you must drop one of these classes.
Yes I meant dual enrollment English, etc.
I am only applying to one Questbridge college. If I rank (the only way to get a scholarship) and get admitted to my second or third choice, I’ll be at a college I wasn’t planning to apply to originally. I wouldn’t be happy with that. At least if I get rejected from the college I truly wish to go to outside of Questbridge, I’ll be able to apply to my second and third choices.
Oh, dual enrollment English students have it a lot harder with the English teacher (same one for AP and dual). He assigns them a lot more work because he says he’s trying to get them to act more like college kids. Dual enrollment Gov and Econ are both full-year courses, therefore offsetting my schedule. Also, that teacher is really cruel to his students. Those are the only dual enrollment courses available for seniors besides pharmacy tech.
Are your 2nd and 3rd choice colleges affordable for you?
I’m kind of puzzled about which those could be though - there are lots of environments and variously academically strong colleges among QB partner colleges.
In any case, “dual enrollment” normally means going to a community college to take a class with college students; I suggested this so that you’d have more choices.
I agree that AP gov/econ is a good combo, but I was thinking that taking Psychology and an English seminar at a college may be better for you, with more flexibility for your schedule and a different pace/environment.