<p>does Honors Pre-Calculus in 12th grade meet the bare minimum for regular Calculus?</p>
<p>No. Being an honors class doesn’t make up for a lower level. The difference between pre-calc and calc is huge.</p>
<p>I’ll talk to my Algebra 1 teacher tomorrow morning about night/summer school so I can take AP Calculus AB & AP Statistics simultaneously in 12th grade. I don’t mind the extra studying it’s just money and if they’d allow that… because typically night/summer school is for people that are failing which is not me… so I’ll see if I could get a spot in one of those programs. Would that be enough? Or am I expected to have AP Calculus BC down as well?</p>
<p>Get off here and come back in 2 years, seriously.</p>
<p>Nothing wrong with being overprepared, I think.</p>
<p>You are planning on taking biology, chemistry, and physics, right? Not necessarily the APs, but I think nearly all top-tier colleges recommend or require taking the 3 sciences. You mentioned a few pages back non-AP physics v.s. AP Environmental Science…if you have no other physics courses, I would recommend you choose that.</p>
<p>If you’re already going far beyond your current math lane to take AP Calculus AB (e.g. a normal kid that took the same math classes as you in middle school would never get to that class) than I think it should be sufficiently impressive enough. The important thing is not getting into calc, but staying in and doing well.</p>
<p>Ok but my science plan is</p>
<p>9th: Physical Science(Not Physics, more like a “joke” class)
10th: Gifted & Talented Biology
11th: Gifted & Talented Chemistry
12th: AP Environmental Science</p>
<p>… is it really mandatory to take Physics? also all four of those sciences I believe my school district counts as lab science so I think that’s a plus</p>
<p>…also I decided that I’ll push Phys. Ed. back till 11th grade so I can fit in the approriate math to get into AP Calc. AB in 12th grade NOT BC but still… it’s better than only pre-calc… i can’t really afford summer/evening school lol … so I’ll have 6 math credits… dang</p>
<p>9th: Algebra 1
10th: Honors Algebra 2 & Honors Geometry
11th: Honors Pre-Calculus
12th: AP Calc. AB & AP Stats…</p>
<p>Total: 6… is that enough math?
how about science is physics dire? what’s better?
Gifted & Talented Physics or AP Environmental Science? if I could take both I would but due to overcrowding issues I pobly won’t be able to… and all of these extra maths due clog up my schedule lol</p>
<p>In your place I’d do physics, but I just checked the Princeton admissions requirements and they do not require it. They only require 2 years or more of laboratory science, but “including physics and chemistry for students interested in engineering”. Are you? Do you have any idea what areas you may be interested in right now?</p>
<p>If you do change your mind, you still have plenty of time ahead to change your schedule, so I wouldn’t worry unduly about the physics v. AP Environmental Science question right now.</p>
<p>The number of math credits you get doesn’t quite matter (as long as you have enough to graduate high school). I think it’s more about how far you get along the math track.</p>
<p>Oh ok so it’s not just how much math but how advanced they are… and now I don’t think I’m looking into a math or science major… more along the lines of foreign language,English,history,etc., But I’m just wondering if Gifted & Talented Physics would be weighed more than AP Environmental Science…even if I’m not a math/science major…</p>
<p>I think you have a great chance… I like your screen name by the way =D</p>
<p>Thanks! 
… but are you being serious or just trying to make me feel good?</p>
<p>Your projections are never as they are. However, aim for all you’ve put forth</p>
<p>DO NOT take 23 AP classes. You’d be an idiot to do so</p>
<p>Having 15 from 9-12 is max. As in you are already in the 99%ile in terms of # of AP classes.</p>
<p>Honors precalc in 12th grade is WEAK. Most kids take that in 10th grade. I’d suggest taking geometry over the summer via an online program - check with your guidance counselor for details. That way you can have precalc in 11th grade and Calc in 12th. </p>
<p>Work at it - it’s mature to plan ahead. However, projections are things you aim for - you probably will be looking at a complete different profile when you are in 11th grade. Good luck.</p>
<p>I can’t take 23 APs… my school is cutting back on AP Psychology & AP European History & possibly a few more… most of the APs are like Art or Music so it’d be worthless for me to take those… I plan on taking 7 to 9 APs and I’m going to ask the math department chair for special permission to take 2 math classes in 10th grade… Honors Algebra 2 & Standard Geometry… Geometry would have to be standard because I’d be taking Honors Algebra 2 with it according to my math teacher… my plan is to after 10th grade is </p>
<p>11th) Honors Pre-Calculus
12th) AP Calculus AB & AP Statistics
would AP Statistics make up for not taking AP Calculus BC… at least a little bit? or are my chances ruined without AP Calculus BC?</p>
<p>I’m tired of seeing this thread…you are in 9TH GRADE!!! It’s great to have a plan this early but you shouldn’t be asking for people to chance you already. You have no SAT score, no HS GPA, and somehow you simulated AP exams 2 years before you take them. c’mon, seriously.</p>
<p>11th grade precalc is ok, not great, but I guess it can’t be helped. Definitely better than 12th grade precalc. AB calc is ok, BC is better, but I guess it can’t be helped. </p>
<p>Check out this thread for Princeton Acceptances and Rejections. It might make you depressed to see such high standards, but at least it’ll give you a feeling of reality.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/318707-official-princeton-rd-decisions-class-11-a-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/318707-official-princeton-rd-decisions-class-11-a-7.html</a></p>
<p>11th grade Pre-calc is ok, not great? That’s far ahead of most students, maybe not the students on this website, but when colleges compare students vs. other students in the school. It will be different.</p>
<p>Actually I go to a top high school in the country and occasionally noted for its AP Art in the world so when comparing to my school I’d probably be (in the case of math) about where the majority is… a head of pobly like 40% who decide not to take Calc and behind 30% who are in a higher Calc than me… so I’d be somewhere just slightly above average I’d say… maybe a bit higher because of taking two maths in 12th grade(AP Calc AB & AP Stats) but not totally higher… what puts me around the top 15% of my class would pobly be if I can get an A in APs like World or US becuz that’s “impossible” although my teachers don’t seem to worry about me doing that some are actually really glad I don’t want to take easy level classes like Honors or Gifted & Talented becuz they see I can do alot better than that… also do colleges look at personal life experience… if so is it good or bad? i mean like growing up in a bad environment (druggies,people attempting suicide, a murderer/sex offender in the family, one of first/first to go to college, not dropping out of high school like alot of my family, being a kid that DOES NOT do drugs even when his family and classmen at school do,etc.) … do they look at that and go… oh xrap we don’t want an idiot like him? or do they go… wait he hasn’t killed anybody… his parents didn’t raise him well? but he still did amazing? wonderful! … how do they look at that?</p>
<p>I’ve heard it can be good OR bad OR neither… what would you all say?</p>
<p>Everyone has personal crap they have to deal with. And yes 11th grade pre-calc is average, below average for top colleges. Apparently everyone goes to a “top high school” or a “super competitive high school” being a local “good” school does not make it a top school. Having average SAT’s in the 95th percentile makes it a top school. Also, how do you know you can get into AP Calc if you couldn’t get into the semi-advanced math track so far in middle school? Wait two years, then see how far you can get.</p>
<p>My high school is recognized at a national level and occasionally for it’s AP Art Studio - internationally. … I just checked the stats… it used to be… however according to my principal their are kids EVERY YEAR that get into ivies(plural so more than one) … getting in the top 20% at my school is like finishing in the top 8% at most high schools and i’m not talking about the awfully bad ones either. … also how highly do colleges look at teacher recommendations? that seems to be a strength that I have at my school that not even the best of the best students at my school always have…</p>
<p>What your high school is recognized as really doesn’t matter. The college is NOT considering your school as the student, the college is considering YOU. Ok, there are other kids that get into Ivies. Are they the ones applying right now? No, it’s YOU. Don’t bother worrying about them.
I come from a school where athletes are usually the only ones with a realistic shot at Ivies (except for one of those rare legacies that come around once in awhile). Even the athletes, maybe 1 every 4 years get into an Ivy. Still, I got into an Ivy. I was one of few from my school to get in without athletic recruiting or legacy status for the past several years. Did that impact me much? No.
Rec letters are IMPORTANT. If one of your teachers said you were a lazy student who does nothing but stir up trouble and cheat your way through classes, you would be rejected 100% of the time.</p>