Cal tomorrow, Lit thursday, government next tuesday, macro next thursday. Shouldn't be too bad. Good luck with yours...
My advice, skip classes you can afford to. Pay attention to the teacher when in class (otherwise, why be there?). Take notes most of the time, even if you will never read them (can be an in with a hot chick, who may have missed a class). Read the book only when necessary. Avoid 8am classes, unless you know the class is easy and attendance is not required. Avoid evening classes, as they are usually longer and more boring. Edit: Don't be in a rush to finish. I graduated in 2 years, which I think is fine, but I should have just stayed and earned my advanced degrees before getting on with my life.
yeah I didn't study for most of mine either. I think in total throughout highschool I took Statistics, Eng Lit, Eng Comp, World History, USHistory, Govt, Macro, Calc, Bio maybe missing a few more but that sounds like most of em. I'm naturally pretty good at the liberal arts stuff so that's where the bulk of my credit comes from. Didn't pass calculus, but I feel like that had more to do with me not paying attention in class due to senioritis than anything else. Worked out well for me since I'm a gov't major planning on going to law school and can now take upper divisions sooner than others
I'm jealous of you guys that had so many AP classes available. We only had: US History Human Geography Calculus Statistics English Biology I hated English and Science, so I avoided those (plus the girls were ugos). Wanted to take Stat, but it wouldn't fit in the schedule (though senior year they signed me up for both Calc and Stat for 4th period and gave me no 1st period).
ahh i remember the good fun days of AP testing.. i had some fond high school memories.. was studying for AP Stat with a really cute girl in high school.. We were pulling a all nighter study session and it was around midnight..we got really close and one thing led to another and we were making out instead of studying.. damn i miss high school..
I never knew anyone who stressed about an AP test. You do good, great. You do bad, doesn't matter. It's pretty much a no pressure situation
I never saw the point in taking AP classes in high school when they offer dual credit. I took dual credit, didn't have to bother with the AP test and got just as many college credit hours out of the way as did those that took AP classes.
My school didn't offer them until I was a senior, and even then it was 1 class each semester (unless you did tech school). Only option I knew of at the time other than that would have been to go straight to college after my sophmore year, but didn't want to leave since I had just started having sex...
Some schools (like mine) don't offer dual credit. Where I go, the only way to get college credit is through APs. And they have strict limits on how many you can take and who can get in.
Well some kids at my school decided to take dual credit, then later found out they don't transfer to out of state schools.
I totally understand this. I guess I should have explained myself better. What I meant is that I didn't understand why folks at my high school took them when I was taking dual credit.
My son, graduating with a double major in computer engineering and computer science from a well regarded program out of state, had 42 hours when he started school, and they accepted every one of them. Except for the 9 hours he took in the summer from ACC, all were AP courses at his magnet high school. They have a different program in Austin ISD then the "regular" high schools. 42 freakin' hours! That's why he was able to get the kind of degree he got in 4 years. He could have graduated in January, but decided to go the extra semester to get the double major. Basically, he saved us from paying for an entire year of college. Parental bragging at an end. I've already mentioned this in a couple of other threads, and will continue to mention it until I get over how much we paid for the guy to go to that university... when some of you have shelled out for this when you're older, you'll understand. ;-)-
Impressive and congrats to him. 42 hours is 2 maxed out semesters from my alma mater, and basically a full year including summer even on typical hours. My kids aren't going out of state on my dollar (of course, that could change in 12 years when my oldest is finishing HS). I guess it all depends on what they want to do with their lives and where I am in mine.
