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So how was your senior year in HS?

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I took a couple AP classes, but aside from that I was an office aide and had some BS electives. I got out at noon.
 
AP Calc and Physics, Econ...and other stupid classes I was forced to take. It was incredibly easy but I still hated it. College is much better. The best part of the day was being a TA for my middle school gym teacher...and getting to beat on the little kids at the end of everyday. That was pretty sweet.
 
English 4 AP, Gov't/Economics AP, Art, Latin 2 (don't remember a damn thing of it), Computer Science 2 AP, Physics, and Basketball. I made A's in everything except Gov/Eco I made a B.
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Hard...

AP Chemistry, AP Physics, Calculus, AP Literature, Yearbook (2 periods), AP Research,
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AP research? Is this a new AP course they have?
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In our HS, it was basically a free period to allow you to work on your other AP studies.

This was all the AP classes available at my school, excepting languages and Biology.
 
Going into my senior year, I had the second highest GPA in my class of about 220. I graduated with honors, but not nearly as high as I should've been.

It wasn't that the classes were harder; I didn't care (case of senioritis?). I was out of class at 11:45AM and had a car/job and too much free time.

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I forgot to answer the question. I didn't put any effort into class, had 2 advanced courses, 1 college course, and 1 AP course and still made above average grades. I thought it was easy, but not my easiest year (11th).

P.S.

I hate all of you that have had the opportunity to take all sorts of AP courses. The only one that was offered at my High School was AP Physics (which I took).
 
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Electric Amish
Hard...

AP Chemistry, AP Physics, Calculus, AP Literature, Yearbook (2 periods), AP Research,
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AP research? Is this a new AP course they have?
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In our HS, it was basically a free period to allow you to work on your other AP studies.

This was all the AP classes available at my school, excepting languages and Biology.
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at my HS we just called it Econ/Gov. 😀
 
I spent most of my Senior year too high to remember it.

I made it to college though so it must not have been that bad.

EtOH
 
Meh.
My schedule was:
Study Hall/Jazz Band
Music Theory/Music Styles and Forms
Photography I/Photography II
AP Calc II
AP Physics
AP English
Concert Band/Concert Chorus

So I had a good deal of easy/fun courses, but my 3 academic courses required a decent investment of time/work.
 
I wasn't sober much.

I was captain of the soccer team, first string defense for football, did absolutely no homework. Dropped out of the honor society. Was put back alphabetically in the graduation class because of that and also had a B average. Running fight with my mom because I wasn't graduating with honors although I picked a soccer scholarship to UK and got accepted into the high-faluting College Architecture (only 28 freshman students were accepted that year). Had a running fight with my dad because I took auto body repair and carpentry at the vocational school across the street instead of taking more college prep courses, even though I cleped out of all the freshamn college classes and set the standards for the AP math and science classes.

Basically I was a smart-ass punk who thought he knew everything and was too cool for school. And in turn, got my ass handed to me my first semester of college when I made a 1.8 GPA - because I partied too much and didn't go to class.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Well, lets see.


Q1:
SAT Prep (AKA Nothing)
Nothing
Nothing
Lunch/Nothing
Calc 1
English (AKA Nothing)

Q2:
Health (AKA Nothing)
Nothing
Nothing
Lunch/Nothing
Calc 1
English (AKA Nothing)

Q3 (Current)
Business Law (AKA Nothing)
Nothing
Nothing
Lunch/Nothing
Publications 1 (AKA Nothing)
Psychology (AKA Nothing)

Q4:
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Lunch/Nothing
Pub 1 (AKA Nothing)
Econ (Grad requirement, but with this teacher, it's Nothing)

Yeah, my senior schedule rocks the house.
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wtf kind of retard school do you go to that you only take 3 classes at once?

i had 7 in my senior year and it was a joke anyway
 
Originally posted by: illustri
didn't lose my virginity but my girlfriend did

/good times
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Thats what high school is all about friendship. I am glad you let me help your girlfirend out, friend. I was very honored.
 
AP calc, AP phys, AP CS, AP gov, AP econ, AP eng


but it was really fun. Easily the best year of my high school career.
 
Senior year was cool I guess. Nothing outstanding.

As soon as you graduate, life moves on. Who cares about highschool anymore.
 
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: chrisms
Dude, what the hell are you still doing in high school? Anyone with any brains would leave junior year and start college, that is if you have the opportunity to do something like Running Start in your state.

I should be in my senior year, but instead I'm finishing my first year of college right now. And its been easy as hell, I go to class once a week.
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Hey numb-nuts, guess what. You see those classes called AP courses? Yea, those give you college credit.

Chem: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, and a 5 gets you 8 college credits
Econ: A 4 gets you 3 college credits
Calc BC: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, a 5 gets you 8 college credits.
French: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, a 5 gets you 6 college credits.

So let's see, that's anywhere from 15-25 college credits he can earn. Plus he gets to spend another year with his HS friends, and if he wanted to take credits on top of that at a community college, he could. Not to mention instead of paying $4000 for a year at CC, he only has to pay $75 per exam for those AP tests. Hmm, $4000 for 28-32 credits vs $300 for 15-25.

So before you call people idiots for staying in their Sr. year of HS, maybe think about it for a bit.
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Community College is free as a running start student. Only one exam is required to get in, and it is also paid for by the district.

The classes are also real college courses, which better prepares you for University than any AP class could. As a college student you're treated like the adult that you are as a Senior, no notes for absences, no bathroom passes, etc. In college you aren't treated like a 3rd-grader.

Also AP classes are taught by your run-of-the-mill high school teachers. Community college courses are taught by people with PhDs (most common) or Master's degrees in the field they are teaching you.

You also don't have to deal with "closed campus" prisons, which is basically the standard these days. My HS actually as security guards and police that will punish you for stepping off campus. As an 18-year-old smoker this was unacceptable.

$75-per class AP courses where you are treated like a child, or $0-$80 (books) per class where you are treated as an adult and get real college experience?

"maybe think about it for a bit."
 
Work your ass off early in the year to get accepted to the university that you want. Then just coast. I was a good student until my senior year. I got accepted to my uni and kept my grades at the bare minimum so I could still wrestle - a C- or so.

 
It was about the same as any other year for me.

No AP classes for me. I had the option, but my highschool sucks and the only way to get AP credits was to take the classes over the Internet. The people from my school who did take those classes really fvcked up when they took the next class in college.
 
Originally posted by: chrisms
Originally posted by: BigJ
Originally posted by: chrisms
Dude, what the hell are you still doing in high school? Anyone with any brains would leave junior year and start college, that is if you have the opportunity to do something like Running Start in your state.

I should be in my senior year, but instead I'm finishing my first year of college right now. And its been easy as hell, I go to class once a week.
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Hey numb-nuts, guess what. You see those classes called AP courses? Yea, those give you college credit.

Chem: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, and a 5 gets you 8 college credits
Econ: A 4 gets you 3 college credits
Calc BC: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, a 5 gets you 8 college credits.
French: A 4 gets you 4 college credits, a 5 gets you 6 college credits.

So let's see, that's anywhere from 15-25 college credits he can earn. Plus he gets to spend another year with his HS friends, and if he wanted to take credits on top of that at a community college, he could. Not to mention instead of paying $4000 for a year at CC, he only has to pay $75 per exam for those AP tests. Hmm, $4000 for 28-32 credits vs $300 for 15-25.

So before you call people idiots for staying in their Sr. year of HS, maybe think about it for a bit.
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Community College is free as a running start student. Only one exam is required to get in, and it is also paid for by the district.

The classes are also real college courses, which better prepares you for University than any AP class could. As a college student you're treated like the adult that you are as a Senior, no notes for absences, no bathroom passes, etc. In college you aren't treated like a 3rd-grader.

Also AP classes are taught by your run-of-the-mill high school teachers. Community college courses are taught by people with PhDs (most common) or Master's degrees in the field they are teaching you.

You also don't have to deal with "closed campus" prisons, which is basically the standard these days. My HS actually as security guards and police that will punish you for stepping off campus. As an 18-year-old smoker this was unacceptable.

$75-per class AP courses where you are treated like a child, or $0-$80 (books) per class where you are treated as an adult and get real college experience?

"maybe think about it for a bit."
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don't knock AP courses. It varies depending on high schools but my high school AP courses were very good and were far more difficult than equivalent courses in the university I went to.

You don't need to deal with the massive 100+ class sizes in AP courses, allowing you to get the knowledge that you need.

Hell, from AP alone, I got 48 hours of college credit making me technically a college junior my first year of college.
 
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