<p>Wasn't totally sure where to post this, hope someone can help. I'm a senior.</p>
<p>Tenative:
AP Bio
AP Calc AB
AP Spanish
AP Human Geo
AP Comp. Gov and Politics
AP Euro History
AP English lit
Civics (required)
Foods for Today
One quarter long open campus study hall.</p>
<p>Ok, first of all, I'm trying to get the hardest course load possible at my school as you might be able to tell, and wasn't planning on having any open blocks, but they apparently don't have Java programming during the semesters I need or something. Do colleges rate you a lot higher if you have a full schedule compared to if you have some open periods?</p>
<p>Next question: I'm kind of leaning towards going for a computer science major in college with a second major in some sort of humanity (maybe english or linguistics), and a few days ago it dawned on me that I should see what the requirements to get into computer science programs are at schools like CMU or Harvey Mudd. I saw that they require physics, biology, and chemistry. Well anyway, due to the underestimation of my parents and my own ignorance going into freshman year, I ended up going on the slow path for science classes whereas I took honors for everything else. So I took an earth sciences class freshman year, bio sophmore, and chem junior. I was going to take AP Bio this year (and it's on my schedule), because bio seemed like mostly rote memorization type stuff (which is the easiest type of class for me, hence all the social studies/history classes) and it's AP. That would leave me without a physics class. Do I need to hurry and get rid of something (hopefully AP Bio) and take Physics? Or would I be able to take a physics class at college and then enter the school of Computer Science or whatever later on in my freshman or sophomore year?</p>
<p>If you can think of a better place for me to post this please do tell. Any advice you guys have is SUPER appreciated.</p>
<p>One good thing is that I don't have AP Lit until after winter break. I haven't finished any of the assigned reading yet and was stressing out about it, school starts Wednesday!</p>
<p>You have enough classes you fool. And the class doesn't even start until winter break, what's the big deal?</p>
<p>I have AP Bio in two days, it's just AP Lit (for which I had summer homework I haven't even started yet) that I was saying starts after winter break.</p>
<p>what I really don't know is if colleges place a big emphasis on having a full schedule, I'm not just talking about like getting into a state school, I have a 33 ACT, 223 PSAT, 3.9 UW GPA, so I'm pretty safe for getting into lower tier, but I'm aiming for getting into an upper tier or middle tier with hopefully some merit and need based aid. The main reason I've stretched myself and worked so hard in HS is because my parents can't pay anything for my college and I don't want to be in debt with the economy looking so gloomy.</p>
<p>but I'm seriously freaking out. I mean I think I want to do comp science and the one class they couldn't fit me into is Java programming. I've only taken two computer science classes in HS, when they offer four (including AP Comp Science).</p>
<p>Requirements to get into Carnegie Mellon's School of CS. Academic</a> Requirements</p>
<p>High School Classes
4 years English
4 years Mathematics
1 year Chemistry
1 year Physics
1 year Biology
2 years Foreign Language
3 electives </p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test or
ACT with Writing
SAT Subject Tests (2)
Math Level I, Ic or IIc
Physics, Chemistry or Biology
None</p>
<p>And I haven't taken any SAT Subject tests! I've never even heard of them until I came to CC, and I go to one of the largest schools in my state (nebraska). It sucks that I didn't know about so many important things until it's too late.</p>
<p>So maybe you should stick to a state school with a full scholarship if you're really that poor? </p>
<p>The schedule is fine, probably overload.</p>
<p>I could go to a state school, but then I'm afraid that I'll be one of those people that graduates and can't find a job! That's why I'd feel so much more comfortable being a Standford CS Grad, they see offers from Google for a 85k starting salary right out of school! UNL (University of Nebraska @ Lincoln) Grads probably start off at like 20k a year rofl.</p>
<p>I don't wanna be poor like my parents.</p>
<p>If you're that poor, how much FA would you receive from Stanford?</p>
<p>well my parents are divorced, and I spend about equal time with both of them, I'm not totally sure how much either of them makes. My dad has a salary job with the railroad and I think he makes somewhere around 50k-60k a year, my mom is self-employed. i really don't know how much she makes. she goes from job to job, like last year or the year before that she became a realtor and ended up with like less money than she started with after all the costs for training, licensing, advertising peoples houses, all that sort of stuff, so she stopped doing that and went back to her small business (door to door saleswoman), but I'd say she makes either slightly more or slightly less than my dad (even though she has practically no health insurance (deductible is for things that cost $10,000 or more)). so for stanford I'd probably get tuition waved and maybe board too.</p>
<p>but don't think I'd get into stanford, I have 33 act and national merit on the way hopefully, with 3.9 UW GPA, average public school, but not much in the way of EC's. Only tennis for 3 years, about 5 different intramural sports, Deca for a year, and a summer job. I'm taking the ACT again hoping for 34-36 and am taking SAT in order to become national merit finalist but still stanford is for the best of the best, they can pick and choose among people with the finest stats and I don't have the outstanding EC's like many probably do.</p>
<p>Wow, that's not poor at all man. Lol, that's good money. Appreciate what you've got. </p>
<p>Your schedule is fine, probably too many AP classes if anything, good GPA, etc. You may not get into Stanford, but oh well, putting on more courses isn't going to change that.</p>