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So you’re like a Canadian sophomore? I feel your pain though, my school had required freshman courses… and 99% of people here are assigned courses for all 4 years and no one other than me is in AP courses.</p>
<p>More like a Quebec sophomore by US standards. Here I’m only a Sec 4 (high school is 5 years long- finishes in 11th grade). I try to keep up with Americans by self-studying or just buying textbooks and read them. Quebec is even worse than the rest of Canada, totally different system. We don’t have different levels like Honors and all, except in Maths. And dual enrollment is definitely not possible here. The law is very strict- I tried to get out of English to get into Spanish, but my principal told me that because of all the laws, it would be too complicated.</p>
<p>You’re the only one in APs in your whole school or just in your grade? Do you take online classes?</p>
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<p>Roflcopter @ the gringo.</p>
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<p>are you kidding me?</p>
<p>my schedule considered AVERAGE on CC</p>
<p>hahah ;D</p>
<p>The only one I’m not sure of is either AP French Lang or IB French 4. ALl the others are definate. </p>
<p>AP Micro (online)
Calc 3/Diff Eq
IB Math
IB American History
IB Chemistry
IB Computer Science
IB TOK
AP English Lit
French (hopefully IB, but might put me in AP 
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<p>AP Calc AB
AP Euro
AP Physics B
AP Eng Lit
Wind Ensemble
Psychology
Programming for the Internet
Senior Project</p>
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<p>That’s like trying to take CC classes in person here before 16, that’s why all mine are online. And the amount it costs too. -_- </p>
<p>Well, my school is new and we only accept rising freshmen. We are about to enter our 2nd so we only have freshmen and sophomores. Out of everyone though currently in the school, I’m the only one in AP courses. I had 1, art history, as a freshman (probably the only person in my county to do so, EVER) and I’ll have 2, Calculus BC and Physics B this coming year although I’ll self study more. </p>
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Indeed, but I’m taking them at a community college so I’m hoping the classes won’t be dominated by natives. I take 1 Spanish class per 9 weeks… <em>sigh</em> I’ll probably end up like “AP Calculus BC is EASY… but Spanish is hell!”</p>
<p>Lol! Spanish is quite easy for me, as I’m already a native French speaker. The fact that they both have the same roots makes it easier (same grammar, lots of words look like their equivalent in French…). We have a kind of CC called C</p>
<p>Well, I’ll see how it goes. I don’t expect to struggle in a CC class. </p>
<p>If you’ve already had the CEGEP and would to self-study AP bio it sounds like your classes are behind. You realize that at some point you’ll have to pay attention, assuming Canadian universities aren’t like your high school? I do have a few classes though that are how you describe. It should be illegal to refuse higher classes to able-minded people.</p>
<p>Oh, for FBers. I know my courses next year are fine because on the Course 2.0 application everyone using my textbooks on FB is Asian. LOL</p>
<p>No. my classes aren’t behind. 11th grade is given only in high schools having the facilities and teachers to teach it. So it’s basically the same as CEGEP 1 Bio. But I was in 9th grade, so I had 9th grade and 11th grade Bio in the same year, with the same teacher. I knew 3/4 of what was discussed in class beforehand and I ended up with a 98% in that class (because of the labs. Else, my average is 104%). The teacher made the exam so easy. It was supposed to last 2 hours, but we finished it in 30 min!</p>
<p>I have that selective hearing stuff going on. I read ahead of time, and when I know something and I know the teacher is just going to read off the textbook, I do my homework or work on something else. Yes, it should be illegal. I’m lucky my parents are so supportive and that my father is an engineer, so I have all his old textbooks and he pays for mine. He always tried to teach me things ahead of my time, like trigono in 5th grade. 
It was scary when I was little but I learn fairly fast so… He had me get one year early in kindergarten, so I don’t want to imagine what it would have been if I didn’t have…</p>
<p>LOL I remember someone who around here whose father tried to teach him Calculus in 5th grade. Let’s just say it didn’t work. </p>
<p>We had a our standardized state EOC in English and we had all had to stare at each other because we were required to sit there for 4 hours and we all finished in 30 minutes. We couldn’t even bring books into the exam to read afterwards.</p>
<p>Yeah, my parents don’t care. They don’t like someone getting ahead. -_-</p>
<p>Learning trigono in 5th year was a bit too much, but now, I’m all ears for anything he has to say. Matured a bit and I know how much I can learn. Calculus is kinda hard, maybe I’ll self-study it, I mean my father is a good teacher and it’s not like any teacher at my school will take 1 hour every day to teach me…</p>
<p>You had to sit there 4 hours and you finished in 30 min? Aie! At least, we’re allowed to bring books to read if we’re finished and after 2/3 of the exam, you can get out.</p>
<p>It’s sad that your parents don’t care. Here, the whole society doesn’t care. Quebec is the only province in the whole Canada to not have gifted class and to not recognize gifteness. Hence the lack of advanced classes and opportunites to accelerate through high school. Here, I’m one of the top students and I have the grades to get in the most difficult programs in C</p>
<p>My parents don’t understand Algebra. </p>
<p>Well, I finished first at 30 minutes (And made a 100, which is the 99th percentile) but almost everyone was done by 1 hour and 30 minutes. </p>
<p>Quebec doesn’t recognize giftedness? I must say that here in my state, all it is a title. They’re are no special classes or recognition for gifted students.</p>
<p>An early college around here is screwing their students by refusing to offer ANY clubs or sports at all.</p>
<p>Here’s my schedule for senior year. My school sends them out early in the summer, about three or four weeks after the end of the school year.</p>
<p>1st Semester:
Physics III
Adv. Latin Prose
Calculus II
U.S. Foreign Policy
British Literature
Era of FDR</p>
<p>2nd Semester:
Physics III (year class)
Adv. Latin Prose (year class)
Adv. Expository Writing
American Literature (plan on changing this to Creative Writing)
Emergence of Modern Russia II
Urban Social History
Calculus III</p>
<p>AP Stats
AP Gov/AP Econ
AP English Lit
Honors BCIS
Honors Anatomy
Honors Debate 3
Honors Decathlon 3/4</p>
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<p>Oh come on, some one should kick Quebec! You’d think they could provide the funding for at least the 1/1000 level! </p>
<p>No, it’s a program where students earn their associates degree when they graduate. They earn it from a CC too. Meaning that realistically their students can only go to instate publics. There are possibly 2 schools in my state that offer an associates from a non-CC. </p>
<p>I remember we had our honors engineering final, one of the essays was very open ended, so I was able to spend the remaining time writing an incredibly long essay.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with you: Someone should open the eyes of Quebec politicians! I mean, I’m by no mean a genius with a 200+ IQ, but I like to have advanced material presented to me, is that so wrong? We’re the only ones in North America that don’t have any kind of advanced classes. Sure, there’s three or four private English schools that offer APs, but they’re all expensive. And the 101 bill prevents me from going to any kind of English-speaking high school… ::sigh::</p>
<p>Ok, so, in fact, they could have wait to finish senior year and have a shot at getting in prestigious universities, but they decided to get into instate publics? It’s a bit weird…</p>
<p>I love open-ended essay questions, I get a lot of them in History or French and I always end up writing 1000 words or more.</p>
<p>Any other freshmen? We know our son will have:
social studies
English
science
math
foreign language
PE
band</p>
<p>No choices for freshmen who are in band or choir and are taking the next year of their language. Well, there are three levels of math and two levels of science and English. </p>
<p>The only “news” will be who are the teachers and what order are the classes in. :)</p>
<p>I can’t say that America is so great on education either. </p>
<p>No, they are required to graduate with an associates degree if they graduate from that school. An associates degree (in case you didn’t know) is the first 2 years of college. However, you must apply as a transfer student and typically only instate publics would accept the associates degree. You could apply to Harvard (but not Princeton) but without APs or EC’s at all, you’re screwed. </p>
<p>The “essay” was only required to be a paragraph because of our lazy students. I finished 6 pages back and front (hand written single spaced of course) before I ran out of time. I got the highest grade on the exam. :)</p>