<p>No- I disagree! I made my decision because I was neutral towards/liked the AP Euro teacher... I had just gotten to know the AP Human Geo teacher very well already, as I had the same teacher for 9th/10th grade history. But, I'm not very interested in the subject.</p>
<p>However, a bad teacher can completely ruin a class for you. My personality just doesn't 'mesh' with my APUSH teacher's, and I dislike his style of teaching. This has completely sucked away my love of history, and I'm now pretty unmotivated in his class.</p>
<p>Also, if Masterus is suggesting that you do nothing in that class and study at home... you might as well not take the class and study for the AP test outside of school COMPLETELY. It seems as though either scenario would go the same way. (never mind- you just addressed this)</p>
<p>No, but you'd get credit for that class no matter what and it wouldn't look like a waste of a period to colleges. Plus, you get to study for other classes and do homework.</p>
<p>Who says that it would be a waste of a period? There are probably other classes that Snoopy could take instead. In fact, I would argue that an hour of pain and boredom = a waste of a period. Hasn't your guidance counselor ever told you to take a classe because you're interested in the subject... not because said class would look good on an application? =D</p>
<p>Just dicking around during class and not paying attention is so fake and ridiculous.</p>
<p>You can learn so much more from a teacher over just reading a textbook.</p>
<p>Okay so you go through High school doing everything by yourself and then you get into your dream school, Harvard, because you have the perfect grades and scores. You graduate and then what....</p>
<p>I was having this conversation with my mom the other day about some of the hiring she is doing at work, she has high profile positions and is screening candidates from HBS, Wharton, ect. She ended up hiring none of them because they were just like you. Book Smarts can only get you so far.</p>
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<p>I actually agree with this. For me, teachers exist primarily to set deadlines (because I'm a huge procrastinator) -- any actual teaching they might do is an added bonus. Typically I find textbooks to be much better and much more clear than my teachers anyway (that's probably the reason the textbook authors were chosen to write them, and not my teachers). And often they convey more passion for the subject (anyone use David Bock's Stats: Modeling The World?) And you can read textbooks over and over again, but you can only listen to teachers once...so usually I don't learn much at school, and then I come home and read the textbook and learn everything from that.</p>
<p>But I suppose most people use different learning styles. ::shrugs::</p>
<p>How does this look (for a senior)?
AP English lit
AP Spanish Language
AP Studio Art -- 3D
Chinese I
Calculus Honors
The Spiritual Journey
Psychology Honors</p>
<p>AP USH
Composition and Rhetoric I/II (college)
Linear Algebra (college)
Partial Differential Equations (college)
Advanced Talmud
Introduction to Computer Science (college)
now Im not sure
non-linear analysis?
probability theory?
number theory?
Chemistry I? (college)</p>