Hi guys, I am a freshman at a high school in TX and I am intending to do the IB diploma, I want to study engineering at MIT or Cambridge UK, here is my schedule for the 4 years of high school:
Did arts and got familiar with French 1 in summer moving to high school
-> freshman:
English 1 Pre-AP Hon
AP world history
Pre-cal Pre-ap hon (Did algebra 2 over the summer)
Biology Pre-AP hon
Robotics design, mobile app dev (school’s elective)
Computer science 1 Pre-ap
Swimming athletics (PE requirements)
Summer 9th->10 (and during the school year): Intending to self-study Geo to get to US hist during sophomore (or online course), Chemistry online or self-study, french 1 ( if have time)
-> sophomore year:
English 2 Pre-ap hon
AP US history
AP calc BC
AP stats
AP comp sci A
AP physics 1
French 1 (maybe)
->Junior year: ( I have 8 period for junior and senior)
English HL (requirement)
French ab initio or french SL
Econ SL
Physics HL
Chemistry HL
Maths HL
TOK
French 2 (maybe)
->Senior year:
English HL
AP physics C may be
Physics HL
Chemistry HL
Maths HL
TOK
US gov 1 semester (requirement) + School elective
Does this look fine or I need changes? thank you
Woah @noeyeskid , you sure did go all out! This is extremely rigorous, and you might want to watch out for that. Getting involved outside of school is almost as important as academics. If you truly are motivated, though, then go on ahead - kick butt in admissions!
Keep in mind your schedule will most likely change up, though. Staying along an extremely strict academic path might keep you from pursuing a subject you really enjoy. Schools always get new curriculum and new courses that just look irresistible. I had started off this way - planning out exactly what I’m doing the next four years, but taking it slow and focusing on the present is important. Really taking your precious time in high school to pursue the education that you want (and not what college admissions officers want) shows them that you care about your self development. So, feel free to change it up!
I hope that this helps!
You’ll need to balance your schedule better. Remember that academic rigor is important but so is time to develop an activity of your own choosing, especially science related.
Yeah, this looks like it’s going be a ton of work but if you can handle it probably a good outline. Make sure you understand your schools graduation requirements and IB requirements/offerings at your school first too though. Also will you just skip AB calc? It looked like precalc straight to bc
Also four years of language is expected! Take more language I’m in French 3 now it’s great
@Going4IB calc BC is just calc AB with extras, I dont need to do AB before BC, anyway thank you.
@going4ib oh and i really dont want to have alot of foreign language class because english itself is already my second language, so im not that interested in lol
Okay, do you have an external assessment of your proficiency on your first language? Because that plus French an initio would be a definite plus.
@MYOS1634 Do you mean that is there a language test for my 1st language? Then no, no one ever cares about Vietnamese. I just moved to the United States in 8th grade, I was born and raised outside the US so it’s literally my mother tongue