<p>Ok you noobs…I mean…sophomores…here is my advice:
If you live in a public school, most likely junior year will not be as bad as it sounds.
The most important thing is:</p>
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<li>DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. Don’t go on facebook 3 hours a day. Complete hw as fast as you can, don’t do the busy work that doesn’t matter. </li>
<li>Get done with SAT’s as fast as you can (study in summer, take it in October, November if needed). Then don’t worry about it any longer. Take the ACT if needed. SAT II in May or June. </li>
<li>Don’t do everything, focus on a few things you enjoy doing (clubs, sports, volunteering). And do them well. Get leadership positions. </li>
<li>Be nice to teachers, think about who you would want to get recs from, and be extra nice to them. Participate in class. This way, your teacher will like you, and you will most likely get an A. </li>
<li>Get enough sleep the night before finals, AP’s, SAT II’s. </li>
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<p>once again…DO NOT PROCRASTINATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE</p>
<p>My schedule for next year:
Adv. Pre-Cal
AP English Lang
Adv. Physics
AP Chem
APUSH
Adv. Latin 4
AP Java</p>
<p>Goals: Start up my new club (going a bit rough right now), do well on AP’s, go to nationals for Academic Decathlon and Robotics, and have somewhat of a social life :D</p>
<p>ACA 111: College Student Success
AP Macroeconomics
AP Microeconomics
AST 111: Descriptive Astronomy
AST 111A: Descriptive Astronomy Lab
Biology Honors
CHM 151: General Chemistry I
CHM 152: General Chemistry II
Civics and Economics Honors
Earth/Environmental Science Honors
English III Honors
ENG 111: Expository Writing
ENG 113: Honors Literature-based Research
MAT 273: Calculus III (Hopefully)
Physics Honors (After AP Physics B; not sure if it goes on 10th or 11th transcript)
PHI 240: Introduction to Ethics </p>
<p>The schools: UNC, Questbridge schools</p>
<p>Obstacles: I’m not that intelligent and affording AP exams. Also looking for a job.</p>
<p>Err. Schedule:
Multivariable Calc
AP Physics C
AP Chem
AP Comp Sci
AP Lang
AP Spanish Lang
AP USH
AP Art History or Digital Photography </p>
<p>Colleges: Hmm, not sure. Reed sounded awesome until I learned that everyone there is permanently stoned…so I had to re-evaluate, since I’m not sure I could survive that intense of an atmosphere. Carnegie Mellon sounds pretty cool and eccentric though.</p>
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Ha. That’s going to be quite difficult considering its my way of life.</p>
<p>Yeah Wes, I’m so glad that my school isn’t very competitive… at all. But still, it will be difficult managing my time wisely…</p>
<p>To a previous poster: I’m quitting the swim team… and that’s basically all that I’m sacrificing. Oh, and I took the May SAT already, so if all goes well I won’t have to worry about that during junior year.</p>
<p>**The course-load: **
H. English 3
H. Physics
African American Studies
AP US History
AP Euro
AP Statistics
AP Environmental Science
AP Government
& maybe self-study AP Human Geography & Comparative Govt. </p>
<p>Goals: Become a National Merit and a National Achievement Finalist, do well in cross country and track (i.e. make it to state and regional competitions), and start a new club that i’m actually interested in. It’s going to take some work but I’m going to study over the summer while getting in top shape for Cross Country and Track.</p>
<p>Colleges: I’m looking into Stanford (1’st choice) , UNC, Duke, Georgetown, Michigan State and some others. But there are very likely to change depending on how Junior year turns out, hopefully, it won’t be too bad.</p>
<p>I hope we all remember this when I’m staying up all night finishing my homework.
<p>CLASS OF 2011 I LOVE YOU. We are all brothers and sisters on this woeful path leading to college. D: </p>
<p>My schedule:
Marching Band (zero hour, first quarter only)
AP English (Language)
Honours Math Analysis
AP Spanish
US History (Honours, hopefully
Yearbook
Wind Ensemble</p>
<p>Trying to also be active in Key Club/volunteering and getting leadership positions in Marching Band and Yearbook. :] As for colleges, Columbia University is lookin’ mighty fine… so are Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, and UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>Meadow, if you convert your APs to college courses, you and I are taking the same number of classes, except for 3-4 of mine are summer classes…you’ll go insane. I’m already insane, so we should be study-buddies. <3</p>
<p>(block schduling)
World Civilizations (required)
AP Comparative Politics
AP Microeconomics
Psychology (they don’t offer it as AP in my school)
Calculus 1
Honors Chemistry
Advanced English 11 Classic Lit
German 4
Concert Orchestra</p>
<p>Haha, each AP exam definitely is not 4 hrs…AP Biology ~3, AP Physics B ~3, AP Physics C:Mechanics ~1.5, and AP Physics C:E&M ~1.5, apparently I’m taking two of those on a late testing day…</p>
<p>Hmmm are we doing goals as well now, alrighty then:
**Junior Year Goals: ** RSI, Blue MOP, USAPhO Finals, Congressional Award Gold, Perfect AMC 12, AIME: 13+, NACLO Finals, Siemens Finals, Make USAMO for 4 consecutive years, Continue to make ARML A Team w/ International Top 5, Continue to win CA state mathleagues, Make it 5 consecutive years as class president, Create a legit nonprofit organization, Continue to spearhead local and state level math contests, Continue to win MUN/HMC conferences, Break 1:03 on the 100 Breaststroke, Win CA state swimming/water polo finals, etc, etc, etc</p>
<p>Acceptence to Tanglewood Summer Music Program
Youth Symphonic Orchestra
All-State (First chair hopefully)
First Chair at local Honor Band
Section Leader
State Solo (Hopefully first place) </p>
Free cookies? We’re just about from the same region too; guess we could hit this up and pokemon party this (No homo).</p>
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Using some common sense, and um, common sense…</p>
<p>1) Sheer number of AP’s don’t exactly matter.
2) Your schedule looks fine, you’re ball.
3) And most importantly, this…so many people believe it’s like, oh, all studying or nothing, or no top grades (unless you’re a genius). But it’s…all about time management (which I’ve been a complete epic failure this year), like…obvious…cookies.</p>
<p>For example, doing stuff that few attempt to do (using little snippets of time at school to finish all the hw, stalling some time in between classes/tests/lectures), and stuff that virtually no one does as far as I’m aware of (this one, I’d really rather not elaborate on…)</p>
<p>and lol @ databox’s goals…rofl, like trying to be uber in every single area possible (except pokemon and cookies).</p>
<p>goals: Um, read for once. Write for once. Study legitly and wisely for once. I have no fancy goals.</p>
<p>My Goals:
Get straight As
Get all 5s (and perhaps a few 4s) on AP exams
Actually end up self-studying AP Psych and Human Geo
Get good scores on SAT II
Apply for RSI/TASP
Argue/Complain/Do whatever it takes so that I can take P.E. during the year, freeing up my summer for RSI/TASP, assuming I get in.
At least place in CA FBLA SLC. Actually make it to nationals if I’m lucky.
Make my FBLA chapter an actual competitor.
Be elected a section officer for FBLA.
Apply to a lot of scholarships.
Be a top competitor person for AcaDec in my region.
Oh, and I want to read for fun. I haven’t done so in a few years.</p>
I’ll decline the honor atm…I’ll join sometime (LOL my facebook account got deleted for “inactivity”, since I tried to log in 2 weeks ago that I haven’t logged in in 3 years.)</p>
<p>More reasonable goals for me: Apply for Davidson Fellowship in Philosophy (doesn’t mean I have to win), be appointed by governor to state position, be reappointed to current position if I don’t get the other one, make as high of grades as possible, get my SAT scores up 130 points to 2000+, get my bowling score over 100, win the science fair again, get a job and pay for 2 summer sessions at UNC, have fun</p>
