course-selection

[fringe barn]

My brother said ochem was the worst thing to happen to him

[cinder gorge]

Is that 3rd year?

[worthy flare]

And cure cancer

[flint topaz]

only?

[fringe barn]

And have your dad also go to the school

[flint topaz]

only?

[cinder gorge]

Or better yet, your dad teaches there

[vestal nimbus]

Second

[worthy flare]

And your dads dads dads dad

[vestal nimbus]

Definitely
I think ochem is made to just weed out all the students that want to be doctors 🥲

[cinder gorge]

Oh

[cinder gorge]

Doesn’t physics weed out the students

[flint topaz]

i actually do have a chance at gtech tho

[vestal nimbus]

We only need like one year of physics for med school

So it’s not as hard

[flint topaz]

cuz legacy

[fringe barn]

Yep

[fringe barn]

And it doesn't even need to be calculus based

[cinder gorge]

Huh, is that standard?

[brisk sand]

are you shooting for a masters or bachelors?

[cinder gorge]

I heard pre meds complaining about physics tho

[vestal nimbus]

Oui

[fringe barn]

You have to take one year of physics, problem is a lot of people choose biology because they're bad at math

[cinder gorge]

Are you taking MCAT soon?

[flint topaz]

masters

[fringe barn]

Anyways guys how hard is AP CHEM, APUSH, and AP calc BC because I have to take those courses next year

[brisk sand]

ohh okay

[cinder gorge]

I found it ok

At least the exam

[flint topaz]

apush isnt that bad

[cinder gorge]

I did chem, and calc last year

[flint topaz]

its lots of notes LEQ SAQ DBQ

[cinder gorge]

Calc was pretty easy

Chem was fine

[flint topaz]

fancy names (theyre easy once u get the gist of em)

[fringe barn]

APUSH is the only one I'm mildly scared of because math and science are super easy but I feel like the memorization of A PUSH is going to suck

[cinder gorge]

Eh

[fringe barn]

I have friends in the class so I know what they mean

[flint topaz]

k so my main way of studying is to treat it like a show

[fringe barn]

Elaborate?

[flint topaz]

check #social-studies-help

[cinder gorge]

Don’t use the word studying

Learning is much better

[vestal nimbus]

No

[cinder gorge]

When are u taking it?

[vestal nimbus]

AP chem was my worst enemy but I also had a bad teacher so idk

[flint topaz]

well it's studying and learning

[vestal nimbus]

Next year and senior year

[dim dagger]

i got a perfect 760 on the psat, have A's in every math class ive taken so im prob chillin. Also i am in phys 1 rn

[fringe barn]

What med school you aiming for

[flint topaz]

i thought that was composite score at first 💀

[vestal nimbus]

Idk, any that would accept me 😭

It’s so competitive

I might just go to Europe

[fringe barn]

Yeah med school unfortunately is about as competitive as you can get

[fringe barn]

Oxford is in my list so I can respect that

[vestal nimbus]

Oh, I was thinking of going to Europe because it would be cheaper 😭

[fringe barn]

It is much cheaper

[vestal nimbus]

If college gets too hard I might just drop out 😭✌🏻

[fringe barn]

Worst case scenario you finished your bachelor's and you have an incredibly marketable college degree

[vestal nimbus]

Peace out, finish my license as a surgical tech, and work there 🤡

[fringe barn]

Just that easy folks

[vestal nimbus]

Yes

[dim dagger]

nah lmao i got 1450

[fringe barn]

I really hope I get national merit

[vestal nimbus]

National merit is how you get full rides ✨✨✨

[fringe barn]

I already have a full ride secured at my local University due to a program I'm in

[flint topaz]

legit?

[vestal nimbus]

Yeah

[fringe barn]

So if all else falls out I can just go to the local University and get myself a free bachelors

[vestal nimbus]

Although everyone is saying how selective schools will have more resources for you

I feel like it’s kinda the opposite

Because everyone is as smart or smarter than you, and everyone wants the resources too

[cinder gorge]

Europe sucks

The universities there a genuinely so bad

I visited a few times

[fringe barn]

Exactly, if I go to my local University I can easily become top of my class, president of a physics club, win a few awards, get a bunch of internships, if I go to Princeton then everyone is as smart as me so I get none of that

[vestal nimbus]

Yeah

[fringe barn]

Oxford and Cambridge exist

[cinder gorge]

Yeah

But

The rest are not very good

[fringe barn]

I would agree to that

[vestal nimbus]

There’s a program in my uni where 100 students can gain automatic admissions to Baylor College of Medicine (which is affiliated with basically all major hospitals in the country)

And I… didn’t get in

😭

[fringe barn]

That's the problem, if you're going to go to a top school you can't just be a standard genius, you need to be a super genius,

Because a standard genius is the average

I don't even know why I can't so much about going to a top college anymore

[dim dagger]

what did you get?

[vestal nimbus]

Care?

[fringe barn]

I'm a freshman so I haven't took it yet

[dim dagger]

oh lmao

[fringe barn]

Yea lol

[dim dagger]

why are you thinking about that now ☠️

[fringe barn]

College is expensive and I need to plan ahead

[vestal nimbus]

Because everyone is simply programmed to want to get into the top colleges

It’s propaganda lol

well okay it may sound a bit hypocritical when I’m saying it 😭

But like I’m going here for the full ride >.>

[dim dagger]

i guess but there are other things you should be focusing your mental energy on in freshman year

[cinder gorge]

Prestige

Especially if you’re asian

Honestly

whether you succeed in life isn’t that much dependent on this

More dependent on personal discipline and genetics

[fringe barn]

I have a 4.0, have secured myself in several clubs, preparing to open a passion project to help teach kids stem at the local library on the weekends, forming study habits, getting to know teachers, all of that stuff is done so I get to plan ahead

[vestal nimbus]

Genetics..

[cinder gorge]

Yeah, intelligence

And being born without disabilities

[vestal nimbus]

I was totally thinking you were trying to hint at eugenics 💀

Oh

You are

[cinder gorge]

?

No I’m not

I’m just saying its harder

[fringe barn]

Feyman had a recorded IQ of 125 and he is one of the most well-known physicists of recent times

[cinder gorge]

For people with disabilities

[fringe barn]

What I think (hope) they mean is that you're going to face many more challenges if you struggle with stuff like autism and ADHD, it's not impossible but it would definitely make it more difficult, and people without them definitely have an easier time, and I say this as someone with dyslexia (although I need to take more tests because we aren't 100% sure yet) and ADHD

[cinder gorge]

Yes

Why the heck would you think I was talking about eugenics💀

[vestal nimbus]

Normal ppl don’t usually bring up genetics?? 😭

[cinder gorge]

Well it is harder though

For them

[fringe barn]

Okay let's get off this topic

[vestal nimbus]

My bf with ADHD and me with OCD and depression 🤭

[fringe barn]

Exactly, you can still be hyper successful

[vestal nimbus]

Yeah, anyway do try to contact your library

[cinder gorge]

Yes

[vestal nimbus]

I think a lot are trying to have more engaging activities for kids

I made a bunch of paper crafts with my kids at the library I volunteered at

[cinder gorge]

I find it interesting that a lot of high achieving people have these actually

[fringe barn]

Exactly, and I already have over 100 hours of volunteer tutoring so I have some qualifications

[vestal nimbus]

Definitely write them down and sign them off

I lost around 170 hours because I lost my hours sheet 😭

[fringe barn]

Already contacted my teacher who held the volunteer tutoring to send me papers

[dim dagger]

I'll say now you are good at marketing

[cinder gorge]

Well volunteer hours by themselves don’t really matter

Where you are volunteering

And the effects of it

Are more important

[fringe barn]

Exactly, that's why I'm connecting it to my passions and what I'm good at, and starting a program at a local library to have science demonstrations and activities for the youth to get them engaged in stem and make them excited to learn, I'm doing this because I'm very energetic and sociable and a good teacher, and combining that with my love of science and math

[cinder gorge]

Nice

👍

[fringe barn]

I know that just having volunteer hours doesn't mean anything hence why I've tried to connect my key attributes

(and if it goes well it's a good college essay topic )

[fringe barn]

Would you say 2 to 4 is a good amount of leadership positions to have?

[full tinsel]

Sounds good to me

I have 3ish leadership positions

[fringe barn]

Nice, because I'm guaranteed to become color guard Captain next year, I'm almost definitely becoming costume crew chief junior senior year, and then executive board of theater honor society and executive board of biomedical engineering is a maybe depending on how elections go

[fringe barn]

@full tinsel what do you think of this idea?

[full tinsel]

Next to me?

Sounds good

[fringe barn]

I'm using voice commands

[full tinsel]

Ok

Hot topic

AP Sem and Research are overrated and I should instead take Lang and Lit

[fringe barn]

My school doesn't even have AP research and seminar

[full tinsel]

That's probably a good thing

[fringe barn]

A lot of people think they are jokes so you're not alone

[full tinsel]

Another hot take

Pre-AP sucks

[fringe barn]

Why?

[full tinsel]

Idk

Seems a bit of a ripoff

Just like the AP Capstone Program

[flint topaz]

what is that

ive heard the term passed around

[full tinsel]

AP Capstone is a ripoff program where you get a useless piece of paper from completing AP Seminar and AP Research

[flint topaz]

and u couldnt pay me enough to take either of those courses

[full tinsel]

Yeah

AP Sem and Research at my school are considered english courses

Ppl are taking those more cuz they're easier

Whereas I'mma take Lang and Lit as 2 times more colleges accept those courses for credit unlike Sem and Research.

[dim dagger]

as someone in sem i can attest to this

i have the highest grade in the class (b+ :()

[fringe barn]

No colleges take the credits and they are hard from what I've heard

[full tinsel]

Yea

But people at my school r whining about lit.

And are saying that ppl should take sem. instead

[carmine lily]

yeah

[dim dagger]

kind of an exaggeration. colleges will take them for credits, but not as an 'english' class

also, imo, suuuuper useful class

[fringe barn]

True

[dim dagger]

i think people hate on sem/research a lot for no reason

[austere tulip]

Except most colleges give credit for either lang or lit

So if you take them both

Youre only getting credit for one

So id recommend just doing one of them

[fringe barn]

People don't like classes that actually challenged them

[dim dagger]

are you in any ap classes rn?

[austere tulip]

Well thats growing

[austere tulip]

Oh also it seems you are a fellow feynman fan

Feynman is so coooooooool

Did you read his book

Surely youre joking

[fringe barn]

My school doesn't let freshman take APS

[dim dagger]

What classes are you taking?

[fringe barn]

He's my favorite physicist

[austere tulip]

I think thats so stupid

People are at different levels of advancement

Theyre inhibiting the growth of those who can handle it

Its like where in that one place in california they made everybody do algebra i freshmen year

[austere tulip]

Its also cool cuz his iq wasnt actually a lot

So he was a hard worker

[austere tulip]

Not a lot meaning compared to like einstein

[fringe barn]

Honors bio, English 1, algebra 2, geometry, world history,
Choir
PE
Spanish 1

[fringe barn]

Why I love him, he shows that anyone can succeed

[austere tulip]

Yeah and i like his creativity

[fringe barn]

His intuition and connecting things was the best

[austere tulip]

Like i read this thing about how he optimized the telephone pick up system in his aunt’s hotel

In his book

[austere tulip]

Thats good

You also have a fine arts

Whats your major

Well planned

[fringe barn]

Physics

[austere tulip]

Are there any engineering electives

[fringe barn]

Nope

Hence why I'm using one of my extracurricular slots for more math,

[austere tulip]

Did you take amc

[austere tulip]

Hey at least you have a decisions by freshman year

Im so confused what to do

I know its in STEM

But idk if its CS, Engineering, or Physics

I could triple major 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[full tinsel]

Ain't no way

[carmine lily]

AP Pre calc, AP bio (teacher is lowkey bad but nice and it’s hard to have high a) AP World History (easy but lot of work), English 2 (teacher is sooo hard), AP Physics (ik im doubling up science but honestly not sure if i shud), Dance (but i could just take it later instead of now) and theatre production

shud i double up

[austere tulip]

Have you done any ap sciences this year?

I mean if youre going into sophomore year

[carmine lily]

i’m a freshman , only allowed aphg

[austere tulip]

I suggest dont double up

Double up junior year

[carmine lily]

i’m taking fhem rn

chen

[austere tulip]

Chem honors?

[carmine lily]

yes

[austere tulip]

Have you done bio honors?

Or bio?

[carmine lily]

yes

[austere tulip]

Ok

[carmine lily]

in 8th grade

[austere tulip]

Ohhh ok makes sense

Id say not to double up

[full tinsel]

I'm doubling up next year

[austere tulip]

Next year

Double up junior year

[full tinsel]

AP Chem and AP Physics I

[austere tulip]

Goood luck

[full tinsel]

Well

I have to take Adv. Topics in Chem as a prereq

[fringe barn]

Exactly

[full tinsel]

Before AP Chem

[fringe barn]

So I can start to focus on getting good things

[austere tulip]

Same

I havent done chem honors yet

[full tinsel]

So I'll take AP Chem 2nd semester

[austere tulip]

Ive done bio honors

And then i went to ap physics

So i need to do chem over the summer

Sometime

Except i dont have time over the summers

[wraith rover]

can u do chem + physics the same year

thats what im doing

[austere tulip]

So ill probably have to do second sem

[carmine lily]

wait what shud i do then instead

i have an open slot

[austere tulip]

Ohhh

[carmine lily]

the only thing would be another ap class

[carmine lily]

options are like ap research, ap spanish

[austere tulip]

Are tou interested in CS

[carmine lily]

no

not rlly

[austere tulip]

How can tou do research without sem

[carmine lily]

my school u do research first then sen

[austere tulip]

Oh

Huh

Thats weried

[full tinsel]

Yeah

[carmine lily]

but help

is it worth taking ap spanish without the exam

the class is so easy easy gpa boost

[full tinsel]

Why don't u not want to take the exam?

I think that's the question

[carmine lily]

bc i’m just done with spanish

i’ve taken it for 4 years now

[austere tulip]

Oh ok

If you are

Then do ap spanish

[austere tulip]

Honestly at this point the gpa boost doesnt matter if thats what youre looking for

Weighted gpa is so vague

It doesnt really matter that much

Rigor matters

[carmine lily]

does colleges have their own way to classify rigor

[austere tulip]

So when they look at your transcript amd see ap they might see rigor

[carmine lily]

or do they jsut go off of what transcript says

[austere tulip]

I think its just CP honors AP

[full tinsel]

Common data set

[austere tulip]

I dont think they can compare for example ap psych vs ap euro

But they can compare honors psych vs ap psych

[carmine lily]

like counselors will literally classify u as taken the most rigourous courseload if u have more than 2 honors classes each year

oh

[carmine lily]

?

[austere tulip]

Damn

The thing is one of my two hardest classes isnt even an ap

[full tinsel]

Yeah my counseloe gave me a look of me being in pain when I'm taking 5 APs next year

[carmine lily]

i can graduate early

[austere tulip]

Oh you guys did course selection already?

[full tinsel]

School counselors have very low standard

[austere tulip]

I think my soph year is my most painful

Next year should be chill

Other than apush hmwk

[full tinsel]

APUSH ez for me

[austere tulip]

Yeah ive heard the class is easy

But we get 1 hr of hmwk

Everyday

[full tinsel]

Got like a 97% first quarter

Never got too much hw

Like maybe once a weeek

[austere tulip]

Oh are you doing apush this year

Oh youre 2026

You’re sophomore too

[full tinsel]

Ye

APUSH and CSP

[austere tulip]

We havent started course selection yet

Im confused about which ap english to do

Thats the biggest one I think

[full tinsel]

I'm taking both cuz I'm required one english course per year

Taking Lang junior year Lit senior year

[austere tulip]

Oh does seminar and research not count

As english

[full tinsel]

Sem and research do xount

[austere tulip]

Next year i can choose between lit lang and seminar

I dont want anything to do with lit

So i can basically choose between seminar and lang

[full tinsel]

I should've taken AP Sem instead of English 10 but my counselor screwed me up

Just for English 10

I would've discarded research for Lang and Lit

[austere tulip]

Ive heard some schools do ap slang

They combine sem and lang

Id want to do a course like that

[full tinsel]

The only AP at my school they combine is the Physics Cs

Into just AP Physics C

[austere tulip]

Oh they combine a lot here

The econs

The physics Cs

Physics 1 and 2

[full tinsel]

Calcs?

[austere tulip]

Well calc bc includes calc ab stuf

Already

[full tinsel]

Ye

[austere tulip]

They were even considering combining the ap worlds if there ever was an ap world history ancient

[full tinsel]

There needs to be an ancient history

AO

AP

[austere tulip]

Yeah i hate

How ap euro

And al world

Are both

Modern

Even though ancient is much cooler and more interesting

[full tinsel]

I take AP World next year

Grad requirement

[austere tulip]

Yeah world is fun

Except you dont go into much detail

Its a lot of big picture stuff

[full tinsel]

But in a much larger timeframe

That's what AP Euro is

APUSH's granular detail and World's time frame

[fringe barn]

That's going to be a senior elective for me, how is it

[full tinsel]

I'm taking AP Sarcasm

[austere tulip]

Thats so true

[austere tulip]

Its fun

Just lots of homework

Except the homework is interesting to do

The readings are more historical readings

At least at our school, apush is a lot of textbook stuff

While euro is more read people of that time and stuff

But yeah a lot of detail

In a very large time frame

[fringe barn]

I've heard, taking a senior year to look good and because an awesome teacher teaches it

[austere tulip]

Yeah same we have an awesome teacher for it too

[fringe barn]

Everyone loves the AP European teacher because he's super loud and engaging,

[cinder gorge]

Guys

Im taking algebra 1 advancing to honors geometry next semester and taking algebra 2 summer school

Is this possible

I heard you need a full year of honors geometry to take algebra 2

[austere tulip]

Nah not really

[cinder gorge]

Ok

[austere tulip]

Theres is this progrm people do in a mifdle school that feeds into our hs

Like 20-30 peope do alg ii in 8th grade

Geometry in 9th

[cinder gorge]

WTF

im so ebhind

compared to them

[austere tulip]

I didnt go to that middle school

Ours did not have that

[cinder gorge]

ok

[analog tree]

Guys- I need help

Im looking at a science stream which is PCB with psychology/PE/IP

One of the schools I just visited does not offer psychology
What do I do-

I really want to pursue psychology in my 11th grade

[deft maple]

11th grade math is wild

[deft maple]

No

[rotund stag]

im thinking of taking ap psych online this yr because next yr my schedule is filled is this managable as a freshman

[ebon star]

AP Psychology is not a very hard AP class, but it is memorization heavy.

[carmine lily]

wouldn’t reccomend taking alg 2 summer school cuz u may not learn the fundamental concepts. is there anyway to take geoemtry summer school?(only sine cosine and tan will actually be used in the future everhhting else is basiclaly useless)

[jade cape]

I have a list for the classes I want to take next year (senior year)

AP Calc AB
AP Physics 1
AP Government
English 12
AP Computer Science A
Cybersecurity
IT Programming

Should I do AP Lit?

I'm doing ap lang rn but I'm not confident in lit

[austere tulip]

I think if youve done lang you dont need to do lit

But if you like reading literature

[jade cape]

which i dont 💀

[austere tulip]

Yeah then not really

[jade cape]

well I can but I don't enjoy it

[austere tulip]

Also cool your school offers lots of IT classes

[jade cape]

yeah

for my school district this school focuses on IT

I transferred to it this year

sadly I can't take ap computer science right off the bat

so i have to take it senior year 💀

and i could of taken cybersecurity this year if I known about it before school started

[austere tulip]

Its fine its not too hard of an AP

[jade cape]

yeah

Oh ik i'm gonna get an A in both classses

My dad works in cybersecurity he literally wont let me get lower then an A

plus I like it anyway so

[flint topaz]

i heard lit helps with writing ur college essay

[jade cape]

That’s ap lang 💀

[flint topaz]

ok well its still an AP

yk a college level course

so its still building up ur essay skills

[flint topaz]

well all i've heard is that AP Lang was beneficial for the SAT/ACT sue me

[jade cape]

true

[flint topaz]

yea so in a sense both APs build essay skillz

[radiant cape]

easiest APs to self study??

[sonic dove]

the fifth one

[south shard]

Is studying literature in college worth it? I either wanna study literature or get a teaching degree

[cinder gorge]

Why

I only care about class rigor not if i learn aynthing

I already know algebra 2 from khan academy

[humble matrix]

Go teaching, if that’s your passion, but don’t take lit because there are very limited job options

[carmine lily]

for upcoming class courses

[dull eagle]

how hard is ap chem

[full tinsel]

Conceptually it is hard

[cloud oracle]

did anyone taken honors bio

[carmine lily]

me

[cloud oracle]

hard?

[carmine lily]

no

[cloud oracle]

otay

ty

[worthy flare]

For an average student, the workload (at least for my school) was around 30-45 min per day. It’s a lot of content that should be studied if even a bit confusing. There’s lots of interpretation from graphs and text too, as well as hypothesizing hypothetical experiments based on results from past ones. Over all, the class difficulty for me is like an 8/10 the main reason being I just don’t like bio, I’m more interested in physics/astronomy, so motivation is also a key detail

[cloud oracle]

ohh ty ty

i was actually never meant to be placed in honors so-

[carmine lily]

oh i like bio so it’s different, def motivation matters a lot

[cloud oracle]

ima fail

[cloud oracle]

gud gud

[carmine lily]

also i had so so much free time cuz i took it early so i would study so much, like 7+ hours for a test

[cloud oracle]

what was yo final grade in that class

[worthy flare]

wow

[cloud oracle]

ik im dumb 😭

[worthy flare]

You’re just over-comparing yourself to others

[cloud oracle]

im just stating the fact

[worthy flare]

Mostly everyone here wants to go to an Ivy

[cloud oracle]

ik

[worthy flare]

For being misplaced in an honors class, it’s okay to struggle. Even a B goes a long way

[carmine lily]

98 lol

[cloud oracle]

i wasnt misplaced just one of my teacher told my counselor to put me in a honors class

[worthy flare]

Without you knowing?

[cloud oracle]

u gotta help me then

[cloud oracle]

no i went with them

[worthy flare]

Oh

[worthy flare]

so?

[cloud oracle]

like i was abt to be placed in normal bio class but my afjrotc instructor told my mom, my counselor, and me to be placed in a honor class so they changed my class into honors

[worthy flare]

Ohhhh I see

[cloud oracle]

yes

[compact dagger]

@languid ruin Your message(s) have been flagged as spam and have been removed.

[vestal nimbus]

Dang

[cinder gorge]

Whats prereq for ap chem

Whats prereq for honors chem

Whats prereq for algebra 2

Whats the advanced versions of algebra 2

Im freshman taking biology 1 is it possible to get into ap chem next semester then go to take ap physics 2 summer school

[golden loom]

@thorn brook

[thorn brook]

I need to decide my future career and I really briefly know what I want but I have no idea how to tell my parents cause the thing I want to do is expensive and there is scholarship but im too scared and I dont even know if it is gonna work for me? I have tried researching on the things I want to do and what I saw was Finance and Graphic design but im still not sure and I really have to decide I dont have time at all now

[flint topaz]

so u cant take an AP over summer unfortunately

[flint topaz]

i would not recommend going to AP chem from bio, you reaaaallly wanna get a good base of chemistry before jumping into that

[flint topaz]

at my school, it's getting high grades in biology

[flint topaz]

having taken geometry and algebra1

[austere tulip]

There is no prerequisite but there is a corequisitie

You need to be taking alg ii concurrwntly

[austere tulip]

Geometry and alg i

[austere tulip]

Precalc is the next one, alg 2 honors is advanced

[austere tulip]

Yes my friends are doing that

You do chemistry over the summer

And then you can do ap chem during the year

[rotund stag]

i want to take ap physics next yr as a sophmore is this reasonable

(i am taking 3 other aps)

[flint topaz]

yea if u took alg 2 already

[violet dagger]

That honestly depends on ur school . My school wouldnt allow it but ik schools that would. Try asking ur school counselor

[rotund stag]

ya im taking it rn but idk how difficult the concepts r

[flint topaz]

if ur in alg 2 rn, youll be fine in physics 1

[rotund stag]

k thx

[ebon star]

Most schools have a course catalog. Those will mention prerequisites.

[tall river]

Do college like seeing 4 years of math in high school more? I plan on skipping alg 2 and Precalc before going in as a freshman, but then I’ll only have 3 years of hs available, ap calc ab, bc, and stats

[deft maple]

Are you in a magnet school because how you learning precalc in 8th?

[tall river]

I self learned it on khan academy

[ebon star]

That's fine. You've taken the highest math you can.

If your school offers multivariable calculus/linear algebra through community college, you can consider that too.

[tall river]

Alr sounds good

[radiant cape]

what’s aps are best/easiest to self study

[paper torrent]

Does it look bad to colleges if you did us history honors over summer but take apush during the school year

[worthy flare]

APES, APCSP, APSTATS are some of the easier ones

[worthy flare]

no not necessarily but why take honors if you’ll take AP?

why not just study for AP over the summer?

[deft lark]

Pi

Pp

[cinder gorge]

MIT prefers Honours to APs

[frank tapir]

Im planning on taking apes my senior year and ap physics 2 next year (junior) is that a good idea or should i take ap physics 1 junior and ap physics 2 senior

[violet dagger]

Good point

[paper torrent]

cuz i was rlly dumb and i decided to do honors

but now i realize i shouldve done ap cuz an ap in history is important for top 20 schools

so now im debating whether i should do apush rn online or not

[cinder gorge]

It just does

[chrome elbow]

APCSP makes you do a project tho

[worthy flare]

wdym

[frank tapir]

If i were to study engineering/physics in college do u recommend me take 1 year of physics but self study for the other physics ap exams or should i take 2 years of physics and not self study for ap exams

[cinder gorge]

its over

how to tie a rope

[cinder gorge]

ok

[cinder gorge]

I thought honors chem is sophomore gened clas and alg 2 is junior gen ed class

[cinder gorge]

Ok

[cinder gorge]

Ok

Are ap chem and chem same year/grade level or is it something you choose i n senior year after taking physics

[cinder gorge]

Ok

https://tenor.com/view/wheniwasolder-gif-20838458

Ok

Yes

[worthy flare]

I think @cinder gorge misunderstood, according to goingivy.com, “Some high schools do not offer advanced placement classes, and MIT understands that. If your school does not offer AP courses, take the honors curriculum and work to achieve the highest scores possible in every class.”

[chrome elbow]

The create project

it counts for 30% of your AP exam grade

the other 70% is the actual multiple choice test

[cinder gorge]

No, MIT genuinely prefers honours classes to AP classes.

Its common knowledge and repeated by many alumnis and AOs

[worthy flare]

So what’s wrong with it?

[chrome elbow]

it makes AP csp not ideal for self studying

[worthy flare]

So choose the other 2 (stats and/or apes)

[chrome elbow]

why would they prefer you to take an easier class

that makes no sense

[worthy flare]

Bro grass doesn’t have any sources besides “i said so” or “everyone knows that”

not even worth arguing trust me

[cinder gorge]

AP exams and classes are pretty easy

Many honors classes are harder than AP classes

You can’t even get credits for AP exams there

[cinder gorge]

It is common knowledge

[chrome elbow]

I think they’re objectively harder

that’s why the GPA weighted increase

[cinder gorge]

Only rigour matters, and AP classes are not necessarily harder

[cinder gorge]

No they are not

[cinder gorge]

GPA increase doesn’t mean anything

[chrome elbow]

which honors classes are harder than their AP variant?

[cinder gorge]

It’s made up by adminstrators

[cinder gorge]

Explain

[chrome elbow]

the reason this exists is because of the relative difficulty of the classes

[cinder gorge]

GPA increases are made up by school board members and administrators who have no idea what is going on

[chrome elbow]

.

[cinder gorge]

Do colleges only care about whether you took most advanced course offered for sernior year or do they care if you had honours and ap variants of the courses you took before in junior, sophomore and freshman yeard

[cinder gorge]

Honours classes are not standardized

Some honours classes are much harder than others

[chrome elbow]

so then how does MIT know if they’re harder than the AP’s?

[cinder gorge]

Your school counsellor has to file a report to the university to indicate the difficulty and rigour of the classes

For example
Algebra 2 regular in reshman
Precalc regular in sophomore
Calculus BC in junior
AP stats in senior

Some schools for example teach o-chem in their regular classes

Which is much harder than AP chem

Would they care if you took honors versions of algebra 2 and precalc

[chrome elbow]

oh I thought organic chemistry was only college

[cinder gorge]

Different curriculums in schools

That’s why counsellor reports are so important

[chrome elbow]

but if ur school doesn’t have that then AP chem would (probably) be the hardest one availible to you

and they want you to take the hardest

[cinder gorge]

The thing is you need to know the difficulty of the courses offered at your school

[worthy flare]

Proved my point

[cold glacier]

I want to take AP Phsyics C to get into an engineering school but my school only offers AP Phsyics 1 & 2. What should I do? Should I enroll in an online course for AP Phsyics C?

[flint topaz]

get physics 1 and 2 on your transcript and if you're that passionate then yes u can try to self study physics C

which sounds impossible but this server is full of geniuses

[full tinsel]

Or instead of killing urself self studying, you could take it online.

[cold glacier]

Yes, that's what I was asking

Thanks guys, I'll also talk to my counselor about this

[sturdy nexus]

Should I do Business or CS idk how to narrow it down and what to do

[tawny saffron]

Sorry but that sounds like a question for you think really hard about what u wanna to in college

[sturdy nexus]

I know I just want some preferences thanks for the tip tho

[tawny saffron]

If your asking my preference and what I think is most beneficial for you then I think business cause if cs didn’t work out then business gets you in to so many college majors

[rotund belfry]

Ap chemistry I take sophmore year or Ap bio?

[mint thorn]

that’s me next year 😭

[mint thorn]

Depends how good you are at memorization

If you’re good at it, bio

If not, Chem

[rotund belfry]

Im very mid at memorization

[cinder gorge]

Yeah, we also have anatomy and physiology for regular biology💀

[mint thorn]

Then chem

Because it’s all problem sets

[cinder gorge]

Our regular chem has o-chem

[mint thorn]

yeah same here and I’m taking biochem prob next year too

[cinder gorge]

Our regular courses are literally harder than AP classes

[mint thorn]

My school has reg chem and the advanced ones are fusion/fission, electrochem and orgo

And I’m taking all of them 😭

[mint thorn]

Samesies

For all my classes too which is fun and also hella stressful

[cinder gorge]

How good are your classmates

[mint thorn]

v v good

[cinder gorge]

Like how?

[mint thorn]

I go to a damn good private school

Like 8% acceptance rate

[cinder gorge]

Does your school do AMC

[mint thorn]

So

Nah idk what that is

[cinder gorge]

Math comp

[mint thorn]

We just literally hire college professors

Umm maybe our math clubs do but I wouldn’t know

[cinder gorge]

Our school got a very sus score💀

I feel like a lot of people cheated

[cinder gorge]

Like around where?

Is it Exeter or Andover?

[mint thorn]

Massachusetts

[cinder gorge]

Bruh, Andover?

[mint thorn]

And nah but ik a lot of people at my school who got into Andover and turned it down

[cinder gorge]

Why?

[mint thorn]

Those lowkey aren’t good schools

[cinder gorge]

Andover is literally one of the best schools

[cinder gorge]

They are💀

[mint thorn]

Like they have fucking insane funding

[cinder gorge]

Lots of genuinely insane geniuses go there

[mint thorn]

But a lot of the kids are just normies like the rest of us

[cinder gorge]

You can get scholarships

[mint thorn]

But in a grade of like 100 people 20 of them are preolympians or whatever so they treat those 20 like they make up the total amount of the class

Also their Ivy acceptance rate got nuked last year because there’s now a quota on how many people colleges can accept

And it’s sooooo hard to differentiate urswlf from everyone else

So like 4 of my good friends got in and turned it down

[cinder gorge]

But its still very high

[mint thorn]

eh a lot of people are legacies so it’s kind of fudged

My school has abt the same for some of the colleges

[cinder gorge]

What is the rate?

[mint thorn]

If not higher for Colombia and brown for some weird ass reason

We had 12 acceptances to Colombia last year (out of like 95 kids) and we’re a feeder to brown

Obvi not all went there tho

[cinder gorge]

bruh

How much does tuition cost?

[mint thorn]

…..

[cinder gorge]

60k?

[mint thorn]

60k for day students

Yeahhhh

And like 75k boarders

[cinder gorge]

I guessed it👍

[mint thorn]

yeah most private schools in the area are around there

[cinder gorge]

So its pretty comparable to Exeter and Andover

[mint thorn]

Do u go to one?

[cinder gorge]

No, I am in Canada

[mint thorn]

eh we’re considered like second or third tier actually

[cinder gorge]

I just talk to some people in Massachusetts, everyone there is insane

[mint thorn]

But at one point or another there’s really no difference between the schools

Like I got into Deerfield and Groton which are considered better schools than the one I’m at rn but like it’s such a small difference

[mint thorn]

yeah, competition is hella insane

[cinder gorge]

Wait, theres only 95 students in a grade?

Damn, thats really small

[mint thorn]

Sometimes I wish my parents lived in like Iowa

[mint thorn]

95-100

Depends on the year

[cinder gorge]

We have like 300

[mint thorn]

Yeah I mean it’s small but I like it

Besides again it’s a private school, most of them are this size

[cinder gorge]

Smaller schools are better

Big schools are choatic

[mint thorn]

My bfs brother goes to a feeder to Harvard (because they’re all legacies) and like 17 people got in last year out of a class of 80 😭

[mint thorn]

they’re better for education that’s for sure

[cinder gorge]

How many to ivies in total?

[mint thorn]

dude idk the list

[cinder gorge]

Bruh, I should move to Massachussets💀

[mint thorn]

You really shouldn’t

Just go to the boarding schools

They’d love to have more international kids lol

[cinder gorge]

Top tier education

[mint thorn]

top tier competition

the public schools are lowkey bad

[cinder gorge]

Well thats good

[mint thorn]

it’s good until you’re competing against these people for admission

[cinder gorge]

But the rate is higher

It motivates you more

Like be honest, you’ll still get into a t20 college even if you don’t make it to the ivies

[vagrant solar]

what is it like dual enrolling a world language online?

[mint thorn]

ugh I hope so

[cinder gorge]

Has anyone even gone to a bad college

In your school

[rotund belfry]

Are summer classes worth taking?

[cinder gorge]

which AP science is best for sophomore year? i’ve been trying to figure this out but i just can’t choose

i plan to do AP Precalc, AP world, AP human geography, an AP science, and AP french next year for reference if that matters

Ok

You do you ig

The curriculum is different in many schools

O-chem is included in regular chem classes here

Not really, some students self study 15 APs before senior year though

Everyone takes the same level

Honours classes were banned here which is really idiotic 💀

Yeah

Apparently “discrimination”

We have weird policies here in Canada💀

Thats so stupid

Its Probably why there are people getting 3 or less on AP exams

Yeah

And banning classes and making everyone take the same thing is just stupid

[mint thorn]

I mean like people have gone to mid schools like Kenyon but that’s because they wanted to and/or they didn’t study and fucked up their senior fall

[chrome elbow]

even the advanced people?

[chrome elbow]

just looked it up that’s some of the stupidest shit I ever read lol

plenty of kids are ready to take algebra in middle school

me and 30 other kids in my grade took it in 7th, and we all passed with A’s and B’s

[cyan shoal]

A summary of America

[cyan shoal]

Depends if you need them or not. For me I did just for personal enrichment.

[nova kayak]

Is this a good schedule for junior year

I’m doing
Ap csa
Orchestra
German IV
Ap Research
Calc bc
US history (required)
Ap physics c

[flint topaz]

ye

[chrome elbow]

nice

german 4 is impressive

[full tinsel]

Make sure that's APUSH

Never cheap out

[cursive salmon]

You have a great schedule! Remember junior year tends to be the hardest so whatever higher level classes you take such as AP be ready for a heavier workload!

[nova kayak]

alr thx

[nova kayak]

i don't like history and i'm not good at it lol

[cursive salmon]

I’ve only taken APES and I can tell you it was a very easy class, medium difficulty exam, BUT it has a roughly 50% pass rate on the exam because it covers so many darn topics and a lot of schools require AP Chem and AP Bio as prerequisites.

[chrome elbow]

depends what other science you’ve already taken

if you’re doing bio this year then do AP bio

or you could do APES

maybe physics 1 if school offers

[magic orbit]

im currently taking currently one of the rigorous english course in my school and im already a bit struggling, but i managed to get a B in that class for my first quarter

im also thinking of taking english 101 dual enrollment on my nearby community college so that my english credit are done for once i hit senior year (i'm currently a junior)

i want to take this in the spring semester but due to the difficulty of my current english class (fyi im bad at english classes) my counselor suggest that i should take it during the summer semester, so what should i do? should i take english 101 on the spring or the summer semester?

[empty berry]

Is this good for junior year?
AP Lang
AP Calc AB
AP ES
U.S. Gov
Choir
French 2
Personal Finance (Sem)
Intro to AI (Sem)
Off Block x 2

And before anyone asks I'm not planning on taking any AP Social Studies classes

[chrome elbow]

what about science class? like physics or chem

[empty berry]

By ES I mean Environmental Science

[flint topaz]

yall is it a good idea to take precalc at my city's local college and the khan academy precalc/trig/AP Calc BC courses over the summer in order to prep for AP Calc BC junior year? (im a sophomore in alg 2 rn)

my school's calc teacher was like "its ill advised"

[worthy flare]

What would you take senior year?

[flint topaz]

mvc

[worthy flare]

Multivariable calculus is offered at your school?

[flint topaz]

ye

so thats the end goal

[worthy flare]

wow gg

[worthy flare]

Will you get any hs credit? Or only college credit?

Nones worse than the other

[flint topaz]

idrc about the credit

i care about if i do allat, ill be ready for calc bc

or if ill drown in all the work

[worthy flare]

I recommend self studying AP Precalc if you want to go into a more vigorous route

[flint topaz]

is there even anything for that?

its a new AP

[worthy flare]

Going from algebra II to BC is a very big jump

[flint topaz]

yea im very well aware

[worthy flare]

if you take the test it’ll look good, idk how many colleges accept pre calc for credit but it will look good

[flint topaz]

wanna know whatll look even better?

[worthy flare]

?

[flint topaz]

having mvc on my transcript

also imagine the sob story on my college essay "oh they all told me i couldnt do and whoop-dee-doo"

[worthy flare]

mvc won’t make or break your college app, it would be strictly for you. Colleges like seeing many APs cand college level classes because it shows them that you’re ready for college and college will be a breeze

[flint topaz]

oh yea i got all that covered

[worthy flare]

I’m listening

[flint topaz]

im just concerned about my conceptual knowledge

[flint topaz]

exactly

[worthy flare]

I see

In that case, go for it

[flint topaz]

bet

[worthy flare]

Just be prepared for the about of work ahead

[flint topaz]

ye ik

im taking ap chem and calc bc in the same year

ik itll be a lot of work

[worthy flare]

I also recommend studying a bit of AB, not for test or credit, just for you. I’m pretty sure it introduces calculus

[worthy flare]

I respect you 🫡

[flint topaz]

will do

thx

[worthy flare]

good luck man

[flint topaz]

im fucked

many thanks

[flint topaz]

thx ill need it

[gilded bramble]

hi everybody! each year my goal is to take one online course over the summer. last year (8th to 9th grade) i took HOPE (psychical education) as it was a requirement and i definitely didn’t want that to hold me back. next year i’m thinking about taking history over the summer, which would leave me room for 4 electives, of which those i want to take AP psychology, chorus, french 2 (counts as an elective,) and one additional one. can someone help me pick an additional elective as well as if i should also take french 2 over the summer or take it in school as well? (my core classes would be english, chemistry, and algebra 2.) thanks in advance

[cursive salmon]

@gilded bramble honestly take French during the school year and enjoy your summer break while you have one. On the off hand, take a fun art class or something you are interested in. Class schedules are tough and throwing an easy elective such as an art or theatre type class really gives your mind a break. If you like cooking, like I do, I took a home ec class my school offered.

[gilded bramble]

okie dokie! also i’m in chorus rn and it’s my fav class 💃🏻 (gonna audition for a higher class next year) but i may also do theatre since i went to a performing arts middle school. good advice. thanks sweets!

[cursive salmon]

You totally should do theatre especially if your school does a musical you would totally kill the audition especially if you are in choir. I’m rooting for ya

[gilded bramble]

haha i’m auditioning for anastasia in january

[cursive salmon]

You’ll do so great🙃

[gilded bramble]

thanks sweets

[chrome elbow]

are these good sophomore and junior year schedules?

10th grade:
Honors Spanish 3
Honors Chemistry
Honors World Literature
AP Calc AB
AP Stats
AP World History
AP Bio

11th grade:
Honors Spanish 4
AP Lang
AP Calc BC
AP Chem
AP Physics 1
AP USH
AP Psych

Senior year is a more relaxed schedule since the colleges will mostly look at 9th-11th

[cursive salmon]

You are going to have a tough year. I am currently taking AP Lang, APUSH, and AP Stats, and there is a heavy workload. It's great if you can manage that workload but colleges also look at your grades so you have to be aware about how much time and brain power you are willing to put into your academics. I would also take into consideration that junior year is generally the toughest. This is the year you will most likley (if you haven't already) taken an ACT/SAT, go on college visits, apply for scholarships, do some clubs, work a job, and strengthen a college application or essay. As long as you can balance out the workload with the difficulty of the courses, it is a solid junior year schedule.

[chrome elbow]

If it was possible I would’ve liked to balance out the AP’s more, maybe a few in 9th, a few in 10th, and then 3-4 in 11th

but the problem is that my school does not allow any AP for freshman and sophomores are pretty heavily restricted also

the only reason I’m able to do 4 next year is because I pulled some strings and emailed the right people

so 11th grade is the main year where we are free to take any AP we want

[fervent jasper]

Is it rlly worth it

As said earlier you need good grades to make it worth it

And Eva

A crap ton of ap classes alone isn’t gonna do it

[chrome elbow]

which should I cut out?

I want a stem major

[fervent jasper]

If u want a stem major I’d cut world and prob do stat in senior year

Or calc in senior year

One of the 2

[chrome elbow]

I’m doing AB in 10th

so I’ll do BC in 11

[fervent jasper]

And then maybe cut apush or psych

[chrome elbow]

I think I’ll remove Apush

[fervent jasper]

Then I’d do stat sr year

[chrome elbow]

Maybe lang too since I’m not a big english person

[fervent jasper]

Yeah

[chrome elbow]

but I heard it can help you bypass college english requirement

with a high score

[fervent jasper]

That depends on the school

There’s a list for each school of what credit they take

[chrome elbow]

I’ll figure that stuff out later ig but for sophomore does calc ab, and bio sound like a good idea?

Maybe world also

I really wish my school had AP computer science

[wind rain]

what do people think abt apush

are the mcq/ leq's really hard

[flint topaz]

apush isnt that bad

its taking a lot of notes

and memorizing how to answer 3 different kinda of questions

SAQ, DBQ, LEQ

[worthy flare]

?

[flint topaz]

short answer question
document based question
long essay question

once u get the gist of them, theyres not that bad

apush ultimately comes down to how well u memorize/study all the notes

[summer kernel]

my favorite thing lol, the one thing I'm good at

[flint topaz]

damn apush is perfect then

easy 5 on the exam then

[summer kernel]

yeah im excited tbh - I'm good at memorizing, not so good at calculations

[flint topaz]

im the opposite

but ive found a trick to memorizing US history

[summer kernel]

i think everyone is one or the other naturally! I make a lot of silly mistakes in math and get stressed easily

so I've been working on doing more spaced repetition

[flint topaz]

W

[summer kernel]

ty ty

my grade in algebra 2 is kinda sad tho

we must improve

[untold citrus]

What are some good APs for sophomores? (At my school sophomores can only take one)

[cinder gorge]

same

[wind rain]

maybe ap world?

if u like history

or ap seminar

[flint topaz]

prob apush

gives u a good feel for how ap really is

plus most people arent majoring in history so u dont have to share ur score with colleges if u got a 2 or a 1 on the exam

[cobalt grail]

ap world, ap psych, ap seminar

those are the ones sophomores at my school usually take

i took ap world

[cobalt grail]

yeah while this is true, a lot of unis in america have some sort of american histroy course u have to take as a college freshman (which u can not do if u score well)

[flint topaz]

oh psych is a good starter AP too

[brisk mason]

is apes hard? im thinking about taking it next year along with ap bio.

[full tinsel]

No

Apes is easy

But never fully underestimate a AP

[carmine lily]

is it worth taking spanish 4 ap without the exam

[unborn violet]

should i go into IB history or IB philosophy?

[strong grotto]

.

[robust junco]

Personally me, I choose IB history.

[stuck bramble]

I need some help, i want to be an engineer, but i also want to make an impact, change the world for the better. But i dont know which branch would best fit my needs. I also want to make things, build and invent so.. Any ideas??

I dont want to make weapons that kill people, i want to help them

[stark bolt]

Bruh what is IB

[magic orbit]

international baccalaureate

[worthy flare]

I recommend at your school to find a problem, something that is an inconvenience (I recommend talking to a guidance counselor or principal) and try to create a solution. Make sure to document everything.

[silk adder]

Do you guys recommend self studying Ap bio? My school just pulled the plug for this next semester on it since there wasnt enough student committment and my school is not made for academics (its a failing football program school)

[worthy flare]

It’ll be a lot of work but it’s definitely possible. Questions to ask yourself are “will this help my major?” And “why?”

[silk adder]

for sure, im thinking about bio major for college so it would definitely help. have you taken it?

[worthy flare]

Nope! Probably won’t either, I’m not a fan of bio. But that says a lot on its own, motivation will easily get you through studying

From what my bio teacher has told me, you should have a good background in chemistry beforehand

[silk adder]

Yeah, my upperclassmate said that as well. Thanks and good luck with your own passions my friend. I believe in you-- whatever it is you're interested in.

[worthy flare]

I appreciate that. I will probably go into physics and astronomy so I’ll need it!

[noble dawn]

I want to purse a career in law and attend UCLA. Do I still/should take AP science classes?

[pearl mesa]

I would say yes

It’s good to show you’re interested in a wide variety of topics

Expand your interest

And a good score on any of the AP tests can get you credit so

[noble dawn]

Okay, thanks! Science isn’t really my strong suit or favorite tho

[zealous raft]

try your best n it will be worth it in the long run

[full tinsel]

Best APs for Astrophysics?

[violet dagger]

Civil engineering?

You can build sustainable stuff

[cinder gorge]

AP Physics

[cinder gorge]

Might as well take biology too in case you discover aliens

[main plume]

what classes have you taken?

because its mainly math I would suggest that you take calc, computer science, stats and really get your math figured out

[cinder gorge]

Help

Im taking Biology, Algebra 1, Human Geo, Written and Oral Comm

Im thinking on advancing all in 2nd semester, then advancing 2 in summer sschool

[full tinsel]

I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist

There are already enough prereqs to take AP Chem and Physics

[full tinsel]

Hon Conceptual Physics, Hon Chem I, Geometry, and I'm currently in Hon Algebra II and Hon Biology

All of which a requirements to graduate

Am taking AP Precalc,Adv. Topics in Chem, AP Chem, and AP Physics I next yea4

[worthy flare]

Astrobiology is a legitimate field, but since you want astrophysics, take AP Calculus, AP CS, AP Stats, AP Chemistry are all really good fields

Also studying python will help u a lot

[cinder gorge]

How is that a conspiracy theorist?

It is a legitimate field of study

[chrome elbow]

How much of geometry actually occurs in later math classes like calculus? I know trig is a pretty big part and I’m confident with that but the other bullshit like “definition of congruent angles” and a lot of those other terms from geometry I completely forget

am I ever gonna use that or no?

[normal ember]

Not a lot of it has come up for me outside of trig, but you definitely need to know Pythagorean theorem, special right triangles, and it's good to know more regarding triangles.

However, I haven't seen anything (so far) about any other stuff like congruent angle definition, parallel lines cut by transversals (good to know though), circumcenter/incenter, etc

I'm in AP Calculus AB btw

So

It's been a while

If you want just tell me a topic and I'll say how much it has come up for me

[chrome elbow]

I know pythagorean stuff the main thing I don’t remember at all is proofs

[normal ember]

I've barely done a single proof since geometry

Well

[chrome elbow]

Then why tf do they make us do that lol

[normal ember]

In precal we had to prove identities

But

Not the same kind of proof

Or the same style

[chrome elbow]

I’m trying to skip pre cal

[normal ember]

If you do

Then self study (at least) the unit circle

And the trigonometric identities

[chrome elbow]

I’m going to focus a lot on unit circle and trig identities that’s what everybody told me to do

yea

[normal ember]

But I recommend taking precal over the summer if you can

[chrome elbow]

what else is important

[normal ember]

But if you can't then yeah

[normal ember]

Uhhh

[chrome elbow]

I can I think I had a meeting with my counselor yesterday

she says it’s rare for sophomores to do AP calc but thinks I can handle it

[normal ember]

Learn how to convert radians and degrees

To each other

Kinda goes with Unit circle but still

[normal ember]

Well that's what I'm doing and I'm handling it better than some of the seniors in my class

So if you think you can then go for it

Just, if you plan on doing BC

Then make sure you're comfortable with fast pacing

[chrome elbow]

I’m doing AB

at my school it requires AB before BC

besides if I did BC then I literally wouldn’t have any other math class to take junior or senior year

tbh they should just replace calc BC with Calc CD

so you’d take AB then CD

it makes more sense

rather than BC which half the year is repeating what you already learned in AB

[cinder gorge]

BC is 2 more units out of 12 units

And you do all the AB stuff again in BC anyways

Its a waste of time

Unless you are like a freshman/sophomore and can take both

Before senior year

[fervent jasper]

Good for junior year?

English 3
Physics
Spanish 4 honors
APUSH
Precalc honors
AP US gov and pol
AP microeconomics
AP Macroeconomics
orchestra

[wet rune]

Thats really good, youre getting in AP credit and from the look of it youre looking to go into social sciences, so this is really good specific stuff for smth in that field

[fervent jasper]

Thanks

Yeah I’m planning to go polisci pre-law

[low igloo]

is this a good schedule

look at 10th 11th and 12th

[obtuse smelt]

Where tf do y’all take math after DE shit

[chrome elbow]

AP pre calc is useless

no college will take the credit

just take actual AP calc

[worthy flare]

He is-and taking AP precalc is better than honors

[chrome elbow]

skip pre

[flint topaz]

self study precalc, dont just skip it

[chrome elbow]

obv

I just mean skip the school course

[flint topaz]

oh yea dats what im doin

[low igloo]

but its good for gpa

like if i do well

and it'll help for calc bc

[low igloo]

for us now its either ap pre calc or regular pre calc

6.0 scale vs 5.0

so i took ap pre calc

they removed pre calc honors idk why

[mint zodiac]

taking algebra 2 and ap precalc is redundant

Precalc is a combination of alg 2 and trig

[mint zodiac]

ap precalc gives you no advantage in calc bc

Precalc in general just isn't really used in calculus the way you'd think

[pearl mesa]

When I took calc AB

[mint zodiac]

The actual calculus part is completely different from precalc--it actually prepares you for the algebra that is done to like prepare the calculus

[pearl mesa]

I remembered absolutely nothing from my semester of pre calc

We ended up reviewing everything learned in pre calc anyways so

[mint zodiac]

Source: I took mat 171 (precalc) last year and am in mat 175 (calc) this year

The only precalc we do is when we are doing algebra but I mean it's nothing hard

Distributive property of multiplication, distributing quantities (FOIL/box methods)

[normal ember]

Oof. I'm taking AP Stats senior year

[full tinsel]

Oof

At my school they are forcibly getting everyone to take AP Precalc

[chrome elbow]

if you self study they can’t really make you take a class

that u already know

[full tinsel]

I can't self study math

Due to staffing issues

I'm assuming AP Precalc is just an extension of Algebra II I'm taking

[magic orbit]

my school is planning to add ap physics c as a course next year (still unconfirm if they are actually adding it), so should i take ap physics c?

• ap physics c in my school is mechanics, electricity, and magnetism (i think)
• im taking ap physics 1 with the same teacher he planned to teach ap physics c
• there's no ap physics 2, nor is a requirement
• i have all the prerequisites (ap calc ab and physics 1 requirement)
• my major is computer science

[mint zodiac]

Precalc is a combination of algebra 2 and trigonometry

[sudden pawn]

What classes should I register for freshman year??

[devout topaz]

Depends on your priorities I would say

[chrome elbow]

that’s dependent on what your in right now

what is your current math class?

[opal belfry]

does ur school have ap hug

its not tooo hard of a class to take

[strong birch]

do you like physics?

physics c is different from physics 1 and 2 in that its almost purely based on whether you actually want to take it unlike 1 and 2 where most schools if not all require you to take both at some point or another

if you like physics and like calculus then sure since it is a calculus based course

[magic orbit]

calculus i do like

but physics not sure