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Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Maybe I'm doing better than I thought. I'm a naive freshman, but am I on the right track to get into a top college? This is my current academic profile:</p>

<p>Summer:
Geometry (8 week class) grade not reported</p>

<p>My school operates on the block schedule so all the courses at my school are year-long. (Because they meet every other day.) Online courses meet everyday.</p>

<p>1st Semester:
Honors World History- 95
Honors English I - 100
Honors Writing 101 -99
Honors Engineering the future - 93
Honors Applications of science - 94
Algebra II online (No honors possible ) Grade not reported yet
AP Art History online- 89</p>

<p>My second semester schedule is:
Honors World History
Honors English I
Honors Writing 101
Honors Engineering the future
Honors Applications of science
Honors Pre-cal online
AP Art History online</p>

<p>High school ECs+awards:
President Science olympiad chapter
Member Strategic boards club
Member Christian fellowship
Advisory member of Art Club
Black belt Tae Kwon Do
Mayor's youth council school representative
Church Youth group member
Church Handbell choir
School science fair representative
County Science fair: Technology 1st place (I go to regionals next Saturday)
Member of local think tank
Summer science Olympiad Science fair forensics 3rd place
Front page of local paper in conjunction with school opening
Clerical volunteering at my school</p>

<p>That is current, I really expect on placing at Regional science fair and going to state, and winning at least one special awards in both. I'm planning to join teen court as an attorney, start a computer club, and try out for the varsity golf team. I may also have some of my art work published in a county collection. I am also possibly considering run for board member of a local non-profit, even though I probably won't be selected. </p>

<p>I really hope to get into NCSSM, and then to a top college, am I honestly on the right track to do so. (Colleges I'm really interested in are: Duke (legacy), MIT, HYP, and UNC-CH (quadruple legacy) (safety?)) </p>

<p>For next year this is my planned schedule:
1st semester: AP Calculus BC online
Dual enrollment chemistry
UNCG-I Phil (through exemption)
Civics and economics Honors online
English II honors (block schedule)
2nd semester:
AP Calculus BC online
Dual enrollment biology
Dual enrollment Chemistry II
English II honors (block schedule) </p>

<p>Do I have a good chance at reaching my goals? Any advice?</p>

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<p>you're fine</p>

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<p>I don't know, schools like MIT expect to see something slightly more rigorous in math... I'd try to at least test into calc 3 by next year.</p>

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<p>I don't know if you are being serious or not, but I live in a medium size town, and they only way to place into calculus 3 is if I taught myself calculus BC in the next few months, then took the AP test and made at least a 3. You can't test into anything here past calculus 1. </p>

<p>Anyway, I don't believe they will expect to see more than it is possible for me to take, I'm planning to apply to EPGY undergraduate summer math @ stanford, because as a dually-enrolled student, they'll allow me to apply. Then I could take cal 3 over the summer of '09.</p>

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<p>Instinct tells me he's not quite right. AP Calc BC as a sophomore seems rigorous enough!</p>

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<p>I certainly hope so... seeing as I'll probably be the first one in the history of my county to do so. (It is online through a state provider that didn't exist prior to this past summer. One school in my county offers it, but they strictly only allow seniors to take it.)</p>

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<p>Edit: ;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p;):p
You look super competitive. I was pretty sure you were trolling.</p>

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<p>Thank you. In an atmosphere like CC, you can never tell when someone is telling the truth. Maybe that's the reason I'm stressing.... or maybe it is that I keep trying to compare myself to Juniors...</p>

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<p>Get out of this forum.</p>

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Get out of this forum.

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<p>Excuse me?</p>

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<p>I think he's trying to say it's a little early to be worrying about all this. Your doing fine, enjoy life for the next two years, then come back junior or senior year. </p>

<p>P.S. Looking at your ECs, I'm trying to figure out when you sleep</p>

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<p>No, but it is also important on whether or not I'll get accepted at NCSSM, where I really want to go.</p>

<p>Well...
President Science olympiad chapter- once a week during tutorial
Member Strategic boards club- a few times a week during lunch
Member Christian fellowship- every Friday for 3 hours
Advisory member of Art Club a few times a week during lunch
Black belt Tae Kwon Do- about 2-3 hours a week
Mayor's youth council school representative- meetings once biweekly, volunteering not actually as much as I should
Church Youth group member- an hour once a week
Church Handbell choir- an hour once a week
Member of local think tank - 3-4 hours once a week
Clerical volunteering at my school- 2-3 hours a week during online classes</p>

<p>So... most of the time from 1:00-9:30, but sometimes as late as 3:00-9:30
(bus comes at 9:45)</p>

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<p>Rigorous, but sooo lucky that your school is so late...oh the magnificent sleep you get...</p>

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<p>Yeah, I know. We start at 10:30, and can you believe we actually don't start the latest in my county?</p>

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<p>You're a freshman, go on and enjoy your underclassmen years.
Seriously, you've got enough stress ahead of you in your upperclassmen years.</p>

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<p>either it's
A) the OP is trolling
B) the guy is super lucky</p>

<p>One of the two, or both.</p>

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<p>Why does every overachiever come here and list their classes, then ask how they are doing when the answer is obvious?</p>

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<p>EXACTLY, skatj!</p>

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<p>I thought I was at a disadvantage though because all my courses at school meet every other day, and thus are year-long, so I would have less credits than many other students. Currently, including last summer, I'll have 9 at the end of this year, but do colleges consider it very difficult to for a freshman to have 5 honors courses that meet every other day, and only two online, albeit AP and a semi-advanced math?</p>

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<p>shut up</p>

<p>(10 char)</p>