<p>Would they let you self study Pre-Calc so next year you can go to AP Calc?</p>
<p>Yeah, you don't even believe how easy fresh and soph year are compared to junior year. I had about 5-7 hours of free time last year every weeknight, and now i'm absolutely time-crunched. Junior year seriously sucks. Definitely study for the PSAT/SAT, it really helped in sophomore year and made me calmer for junior year.</p>
<p>My administration totally screwed me over freshman year. They refused to let me have a full course load when I know I could've handle it so they wouldn't let me take Spanish freshman year. I ended up with only 2 years of Spanish and they both sucked (I got As but the teachers were horrible). </p>
<p>Like others have said, just wait. Junior year=hell in HS.</p>
<p>Junior year is going pretty easily for me? Kinda bizarre... I'm in 5 APs and 1 regular and got a 95 average first quarter with little to no study and I can usually get homework in 4/6 classes done during school hours.</p>
<p>Freshmen year: easy
Sophomore year: hell
Junior year: busy but not too bad
Senior year: Senioritis!!!</p>
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My courses:
Honors Algebra 2
Honors Biology
Regional World Studies (mandatory history class)
Literature and Composition (mandatory English class)
Wellness (mandatory P.E. class)
Spanish
Band
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<p>At my school, we have prescribed courses. (Except for math and any other courses you wish to take online in addition to your classes at school.)</p>
<p>Currently my freshman year courses is as follows:
(We have the A/B day schedule)
World History Honors
English I Honors
Writing 101 Honors
Engineering the future Honors
Algebra II (Online, only offered in Standard, and 1 semester)
Applications of Science Honors
AP Art History (Online)
Pre-cal Honors (Next semester) </p>
<p>Our school gets out at 4:30, so time management is vital.
The work at school is project based so that requires a lot of time out of school, but my freshman year would be really easy except for my online classes.</p>
<p>My APAH class... was not what I wanted to take... I wanted AP Psychology or AP CS AB. I was only able to sign up for APAH, and the people at my school told me it would be easy. It isn't. I'm bad with scheduling and this is the first time I've had to take notes from chapters.... and really have to study at all. (The chapters are 30-50 pages each, and each test covers major-the smallest details along with the expectation that you know all the pictures in the chapters along with prescribed info about them. I really don't like art at all.) </p>
<p>I have a relatively decent amount of ECs and hobbies.</p>
<p>My advice: if you are bored at school, go to the library and just learn everything there; join tons of organizations; work on getting "perfects" in every course and showing the teachers just how brilliant you are. (Cure cancer.... start an organization in Africa... )
Also the community college thing depends on your state. Do some research... you may find somethings that your staff members didn't know about or want to tell you.</p>
<p>^ Just wondering - what website do you use for your online courses?</p>
<p>You have a lot of options.</p>
<p>Okay, first, take the SAT or the ACT in order to prove your intelligence. You're in 9th grade (like me), so aim for a 25-26 or 1700-1800 if you really want to be considered for certain programs.</p>
<p>Then, research Stanford EPGY and JHU CTY long-distance courses.</p>
<p>If you aren't interested by the options there, and you think you are capable of self-studying an easy AP, do that! Buy a textbook or two. Search for oasis' thread on self-studying APs.</p>
<p>If you live in a metro area, there will be opportunities. Look to local universities and gifted programs.</p>
<p>Some summer programs that might be of interest to you:
-- Davidson THINK Institute
-- Summer@Brown
-- Johns Hopkins CTY
-- Northwestern CTD
-- Duke TIP
-- Yale EXPLO (<-- not as academics-oriented)</p>
<p>tell them to fu** themselves and self-study folk... (haha I sounded black)</p>
<p>seriously do some self-study/independent study. try to be a state scholar for illinois by junior year and prep for ACT's/SAT's/SAT II's now so you'll have 36's and 800's. :)</p>
<p>or wait to junior year....</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedback. I am taking the SATs in a few months and I am starting my preparation soon. I took them in 7th grade through the Duke TIP program when I lived in Florida and scored pretty well (~1750 with no prep.).</p>
<p>I attented the Vanderbilt Summer Academy this past summer and enjoyed it. How do those other summer programs compare?</p>
<p>I will look into the AP self-studying. The economics ones caught my eye and my school does not offer them. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
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Okay, first, take the SAT or the ACT in order to prove your intelligence.
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Yeah... I missed something.... </p>
<p>"rofl" I take my online courses via NCVPS (I certainly don't consider that "personally identifiable info")</p>
<p>I was in the same situation, except my counselors were more reasnable and allowed me to take harder classes. Get your parents involved if possible, transfer, possibly to a private school, if you feel that necessary to be challenged, or suck it up and be glad you'll be able to take harder classes next year. Hey, it's a free year, isn't it? Colleges will understand your situation.</p>
<p>If you can't do anything, just try to develop an interest and work on it.</p>
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but there aren't any local non-college-level competitions.
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<p>I believe there is a Davidson Fellowship in music that can be composition. If not, try one of the many other composition scholarships out there.</p>