<p>So my friend (who is a rising sophomore, btw) was having troubles with her schedule due to a lot of APs/honors clashing, so she had to switch around some classes. She originally wanted to take AP Stats, but that didn't work so she tried to switch to AP Economics. As it turns out, for whatever reason, you have to be at least a junior to take AP Economics all of a sudden (this must be a new rule, as there were sophomores in that class last year). So, what does the guidance counselor suggest she take? AP Physics B, of course! Yes, at our school, you can take AP Physics as a sophomore, but not AP Economics. So now she has Honors Chem, AP Physics B, and Honors Pre-Calc, all of which are pretty notoriously hard at my school. So yay to counselors!
As for an actual topic to this story: Have you had any weird things that have happened with your schedules due to clashing and such? If so, did things end up working out, or did you end up like my friend and get screwed over?</p>
<p>At the beginning of the year my schedule had put me in band! AHHHHHHHH! This was terrible because I hate band! Luckily by a miracle of Rao I managed to find a counsellor who doesn’t hate his job, and he switched me spanish. Life went on as scheduled.</p>
<p>But seriously I think I might have some conflicts this year. I’ll find out on valdation next week, I guess.</p>
<p>That’s actually quite humorous to me, considering that I was afraid that my two band classes this year wouldn’t fit. But I guess they did since I didn’t get a call telling me about it. XD</p>
<p>Freshman year, I was placed in band, and a month into school, I decided to drop band and double up in math instead. I was expecting some sort of placement test or whatever to get into geometry (I was in Honors Algebra 2 also), but my counselor just asked me, “Do you want to take regular or honors?” So I dropped band and took Honors Geometry instead. And everyone in school thought I was insane for doubling in math, even though it really wasn’t bad at all.</p>
<p>Sophomore year (this year), I requested AP Bio along with 4 honors classes, but there was a scheduling conflict that prevented me from taking AP Bio. I found this out early on in the summer and decided to self-study honors precalc and test out of it, hoping that I would be able to take AP Bio along with AP Calculus BC if I passed the precalc final. So I spent my summer doing precalc, went in and took the hardest test ever, and got a score so bad that I won’t even mention it on CC. Needless to say, I got into neither AP Bio nor AP Calc, but I did manage to convince the Dean to switch my elective to band at the last minute (literally the day before school started), and he was super cooperative. So this year, I’m taking 4 honors (English, Chem, Western Civ, Precalc) along with band, and also (hopefully) self-studying Calc and two other APs.</p>
<p>I really hope nothing like this happens next year. Junior year, I’m planning on taking AP Chem, AP Physics C, AP Stats (b/c I’ll have already taken the Calc BC exam), APUSH, Honors American Lit, and Honors Spanish 3 (and theology, a requirement @ my Catholic school). But I already have a feeling that there’s going to be a scheduling conflict with all those classes…</p>
<p>A guy took AP Psychology his junior year and the next year got regular Psychology after getting a 5 on the AP test.</p>
<p>Instead of getting networking which they needed to complete a STEM program as a senior, someone got a class on flower design and marketing.</p>
<p>I got general science (for Junior year) while currently enrolled in/already taken AP Bio, APES, AP Chem, AP Physics… You know… It’s a graduation requirement that I skipped my freshman year. Basically if you take all the AP sciences, you hit everything that the class covers anyways. I tested out of it :D</p>
<p>I wasn’t allowed to switch out of honors psychology online and into a science or math elective, because my counselor believed I would fail if I tried to double in math. I was super ****ed because I’ve never made anything lower than a “B” in all of high school- was I really going to straight up fail a class?
I had the worst guidance counselor- one of my friends had to switch classes, so she asked for anything that was weighted. He called her back to his office the next day to tell her that weight-lifting was full.</p>
<p>They tried to put me in a study hall…
That was remedied very quickly</p>
<p>This year when I first got my schedule, I was put in business law and h us history (already told my counselor numerous times that I’m taking IB us history next year) but thankfully I switched into the classes I wanted with little hassle.</p>
<p>The worst that’s happened is my counselor tried to get me to take like 2 art classes junior year instead of AP Chem or French or Film. All of which I really wanted to take</p>
<p>In my sophomore year, my counselor signed me up for advanced media art before I had even taken regular media art. It was quickly fixed, but I was confused. Also for this year, as a senior, he tried putting me in college prep english instead of the college level English. This was also fixed, but not before some anxiety on my part!</p>
<p>My school’s schedules just came out today…</p>
<p>I have an unscheduled period. (I’m guessing a study hall…but still…where am I supposed to show up?)</p>
<p>Half of my friends have Spanish III and Spanish IV at the same time. </p>
<p>A lot of the seniors were not scheduled into APs they did summer work for (!!) and were instead put in lower levels of the same course (honors, CP). </p>
<p>Oh, and apparently my school decided that we (juniors) all needed Physics so surprise! we all are doubled up on sciences (with Chem). This is preventing me from getting another class I need!</p>
<p>Sophomore year I was put into Intermediate Algebra (a two year algebra course), when I had finished Algebra in 7th grade and Algebra 2 in 9th grade… Thankfully, they realized their mistake and pulled me out after two days</p>