So I'm, thinking about what to do next year in school. I want to know if you guys think this is too much for a high school senior.
I think I'm gonna do AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Physics, World literature, Economics, and Calculus. Along with that I will be adding to my IGCSE certificates the following: Physical science, Core Math, and Core EFL exams.
I know that all this will look god on an application but does anon think it's worth it or should I cut back on some stuff.
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Anonymous2007-11-01 12:39
If it will look GOD then it is certainly worth it.
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paste2007-11-01 13:45
yeah it will totaly look like GOD took those classes, or it looks like GOD could take them if it was real!
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Anonymous2007-11-01 16:31
>>1
yeah itll look great on an application that you scheduled a ton of classes that they won't have the grades to look at for.
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Bacu2007-11-01 16:53
Colleges mostly focus on course difficulty, I'd do it.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 1:34
if you get a d- in any of these your plan will be a complete success. i know tons of people at top ranked universities with similar or harder schedules than that; however i also know tons of total retards at the same schools. your first concern should be finishing at the top, and your second concern should be raising the bar so your top is actually challenging.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 2:17
just enjoy skipping high school.. you don't learn anything in ap classes that's useful
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Anonymous2007-11-02 14:43
Three sciences + calculus?
Enjoy not remembering anything.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 14:52
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Ok, I take that back. But that's a lot of stuff to cram into senior year. I would srysly drop literature course, because I took English lit, which was a shitload of reading, and I got a fucking 3 on it. Plus its english so its wasting your time. If you just want the arts credit, try taking the English language exam, without taking the course. Just take a few practice tests throughout the year and then do the exam. Thats what I did and I got a 4, good for 3 electives credits in uni.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 22:42
DO IT PUSSY.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 22:47
high school is easy. this semester at UT Austin I'm taking multivar. calculus, biochem II, biochem lab w/ substantial writing component, physics II and a physics lab. and I work ~15hrs/week. so yeah, high school's easy, get over it.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 22:58
Just take the fact that you're going to have senioritis into consideration--you're going to be pissed off when you have to do work until the bitter end of your senior year, when everyone else is fucking around.
Anyway, how hard your course load is has much more to do with how shitty your teachers are. If they're going to be a lot of work, reconsider; if not, then it should be fine. And yes, it'll look good for your college transcript.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 22:58
>>11 here. boo hoo, I have 9 hours of class, 3 hours of labs, and 15 hours of work. how cud anyone have a 27 hour/week schedule ??? i have no time to play halo or gta with mah homeez.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 23:11
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you're not me. I have class 23 hours/week. I have to study an additional 20+ hours/week. that plus work = 58 hours/week.
the point I was making is HS is fucking easy.
oh, and fuck you, dumb piece of shit. go fucking die, shitstain.
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Anonymous2007-11-02 23:50
>>14
Lack of sleep is making you cranky. Clearly you aren't up to the enormous strain that is college life.
Seriously, if college were hard there wouldn't be hundreds of thousands of people graduating each year.
58 hours of work isn't all that much.
40 (paid) is typical for a full time job an extra 3.6 hours a day isn't much more.
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Anonymous2007-11-03 1:40
a lot of college isn't hard, biochemistry on the other hand... not easy. Biochem at a top program like UT, pretty fucking hard.
college can't be that easy, according to the US gov't less than 30% of the population over 25 have a bachelor's degree (or higher).
also, equating a full time job, where you hardly have to think, to learning the chemistry to explain how living things... are alive is naive at best. and yes I am pretty fuckin' tired/cranky.
I'll stop baawwwing now and conclude with - fuck you.
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Anonymous2007-11-03 4:11
Biochemistry... isn't that the easy chemistry liek organic chemistry?
This year (senior) I'm taking AP Chemistry, AP Physics, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science, AP English.
Last year I took AP Econ in a single semester, and got 4's on both the macro and micro AP test.
If you are smart, you should definitely be able to manage those classes you posted.
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Anonymous2007-11-08 1:06
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biochem and organic are easy if you're good at memorizing shit. the raw memorization is why premeds love biochem, but chemistry majors hate it.
but memorization can be pretty hard. just take a pharmacology, immunology, or gross anatomy course.
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Anonymous2007-11-08 2:40
biochem also uses a lot of non-memorization. a lot of shit with pKa for different ionizable groups, pH and buffers, enzyme kinetics and thermodynamics... actual chemistry stuff along with the rediculous memorization.
inorganic chem with ligands, conjugation compounds and crystal field theory is a lot easier to me.
OP Here,
Thanks, I think I'll be up to it considering I'm already taking Physics, chem, anatomy/physiology, and pre calc anyways.
I talked to a few people in the ap classes and apparently all they do is screw around in the classes. Gonna go for it, if I fail then I can become an hero after I break Cho's record.
OP Here,
Thanks, but I just received the news I have the AIDS. Seems that magical night I spent with m boyfriend in his TransAM was a little too eventful and we're gay I'm going to be an hero bye.
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Anonymous2007-11-08 16:56
I do 5 hours of each of 3 sciences and 9 hours of maths a week easy. :3