As I frequent these forums, it seems like there are a lot of questions that concern people's schedules. Although these threads are fine, a lot of these questions seem to be similar, such as, "should I drop a music class for this extra AP" or generic weighing of options, and they tend to clog up this forum a lot. I know that's what most of high school questions are concerned about, but I was thinking that we could make a big/official thread that answers most of the common questions that people have and have people post in it for their specific questions.
It sounds good, but with any long thread it’s hard to give advice and make sure everyone’s posts can be viewed. For example, say these are the posts:
Post #1: “Help me pick between AP Chem and AP Bio”
Post #2: *replies to post #1"
Post #3: “Should I take AP World as my first AP? Will it be too difficult?”
Now if I see this post, and have an opinion / advice to give to poster #1, but have no idea what AP World is like, I would be replying just to the first post. So we might see something like:
Post #4:replies to post #1 [say I recommend chem]
Now the next poster disagrees with me and recommends bio. Then this happens:
Post #5:replies to post #1 and #4
And poster #3 is forgotten and will either need to repost or start his/her own thread, which sort of defeats the purpose. It also becomes a very discontinuous pattern, since most people want more opinions than the person who posts right after them, some people can’t give advice to the poster above them, and some people have advice but no questions.
The general thread with summaries of AP classes sounds good, but again most posters need more specific answers to their problem. And it’s hard to say “drop music” without knowing what major the poster is interested in, whether s/he has focused on music ECs, and so on. I guess I agree it would be ideal, but the problem with this (and most) forums is that they just get too large and messy for these kinds of threads to work easily, and people post anyway…