<p>I have said this many times and I will say it again, never takes geometry during school year, instead, talk to your couselor about virtual school and take geo over the summer. I wasted my 8th grade year taking that useless classes and the only things I ever use again are sin cosine tangent and some basic rules of angle measurement.</p>
<p>Supposedly you learn some proofs in geometry. I never did. </p>
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If you do it correctly, this is true.
Amen.</p>
<p>@ThatOneWeirdGuy hahaha, thank you! I sure hope so :)</p>
<p>@DigitalKing Wouldn’t it be better if you tested out and took another class in it’s place? I feel like since P.E. is only a Regular class, the GPA will drag my average down.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather Are you sure they look at class rank too? My high school’s pamphlet explicitly said that it won’t release class rank unless the Military needs it. :)</p>
<p>@long2181998 Really? My old tutor said that Geo was a fundamental course and I couldn’t skip it… of course, I would if I could, but unfortunately there is a new policy barring students from skipping any course except Pre-Calc, which you have to take during the summer. But you’re lucky enough to take it during the eighth grade! I have to wait until next year.</p>
<p>@DigitalKing @halcyonheather @long2181998 Perhaps they have a different curriculum in my school? A couple of my friends took Geometry this year and told me that it was harder than any other Math course they’ve took.</p>
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Out of what, pre-algebra and Algebra I?
I still wouldn’t really recommend skipping it if you’ll already be taking calculus by the end of your senior year. It’s not really any worse than any other high school math class (they’re all pretty uninspired, not just geometry), and it’s just better to take stuff in a classroom when you can. </p>
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Yes, it’s generally required to graduate.</p>
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They look at class rank if they can get it. If your school doesn’t send it, they won’t look at it. </p>
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<p>In the grand scheme of things, it shouldn’t matter. However, testing out would’ve meant I could’ve taken a year-long class in its place (since gym was a semester and its corresponding second semester class was filled with AP MacroEcon for me). </p>
<p>Taking gym will NOT be scorned upon by adcoms. Graduation requirements will be sent in your school’s report, so colleges will know what you had to take to graduate. Don’t go to the extreme of testing out of everything, because you’ll run out of classes (this is going to happen to me senior year… oops…)… </p>
<p>@halcyonheather Oh, alright, thanks :)</p>
<p>@DigitalKing Yeah, I told my dad that if he found too many loopholes, there wouldn’t be any classes left to take. You’re lucky your school offers AP Macro, my school doesn’t :(</p>
<p>@angelacao that is pretty sad that you are not able to takes it over the summer. Perhaps it is hard to your friends because they do not bother to remember the theorems or just not creative enough to apply them into finding measurements(knowing theorems are criticals to writing proof of proving two triangles or sides are the same.) These theorems have names which are self-explainatory like the angle-side-angle or side-angle-side which just a little brain, you don’t even have to study them.</p>
<p>Regular geometry is trivial. You could take the Ap Test to accelerate yourself/.</p>
<p>@long2181998 yeah, I’m pretty disappointed because it leaves me behind a lot of classmates. They just HAD to make the policy THIS YEAR.</p>
<p>@wcao9311 They have AP Geometry? Haha, I didn’t know that. Yeah, I’ll study for that AP too, thanks :)</p>
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Lol, no. </p>
<p>This thread has the highest response to view ratio I’ve seen.</p>
<p>Other than that, @angelacao - AP Geometry doesn’t exist lol. It sounds funny just typing that, and I love how you automatically say you’re going to study for it hahah. I’d advise to join clubs you’re interested in immediately and build relationships that can endorse you throughout your HS career.</p>
<p>I didn’t feel like reading the entire thread but wanted to point out if someone hadn’t already-
Colleges only care about achievements from HS level up, so you wouldn’t be able to put any middle school achievements on your applications.</p>
<p>Really sound advice from everyone here. The single most important thing you can do is get involved in something you love and shine in it. After you pass a certain benchmark in regards to GPA and scores, they become trivial.</p>
<p>@halcyonheather oh loll woops</p>