School Workload-Need Some Advice

[bacalaoboy]

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Well, Rubix is right about time management. I'm taking 3 APs, the rest are honors classes, along with 2 dual-enrollment college courses with 5-6 ECs (assuming that is extra curriculum activities), and yet I still have free time to play some games or go outside all while pulling As and Bs. Sure there will be a paper here and there, but hey at least you wont end up spending the rest of your life flippin' patties at Mickey D's. Just get through the work "load" and you'll find that the reward is worth it.

[rqm]

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Besides, colleges like A's in normal classes more than they like B's/C's in AP and honors courses.

sorry but no, youre wrong. admissions officers would much rather see you take a couple APs and maybe make a couple Bs or Cs than take all standard dumps and get As.

[leonid]

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just get A's in AP courses lmao problem solved

[Wineandbread]

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Besides, colleges like A's in normal classes more than they like B's/C's in AP and honors courses.

Are you sure this is true? Almost every single teacher at my school says otherwise. And I'd say that rigor is definitely a factor for some of the upper-tier schools, and not just Harvard. An A in an honors course might be better in terms of weighted GPA though (4.5 for an honors A and 4.0 for a GT/AP B over here)

ECs, especially sports or marching band, can suck up a lot of time in the seasons that you do them. I've got friends ending school at 2:15 to cross country practice right after school and quickly followed by band practice till 8:00 or so, and they still manage to do really well in their classes. Guess they have good time management, which I do agree is important if your schedule is hectic.

If you pay attention in class/when you're reading important content (aka not fall asleep lolol) you can minimize studying. Regular homework is oftentimes busywork, and relatively unimportant in determining grade. But if it happens to help you study, try and keep your focus.

[Tokzic]

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i think someone needs to learn the art of how to



AND WHAT BETTER WAY THEN LISTEN TO TURNTABLE TREVOR'S SATURDAY RADIO SHOW

[rqm]

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fact is rigor is important for getting in to any school besides the 2 year community dump that mrgiggles is kickin it at

[justaguy]

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Well i usually dont make these kind of threads but i was wondering how do you guys cope with a heavy workload. Starting the new year im already starting to stress out taking All honors and 2 AP courses my Junior year. Any advice on how to relieve this stress?

i took 7 IB classes junior year and still had time to do lots of other ****

then again i'm super human

[Izzy]

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I aksed my girlfriend whether or not she thought college or highschool was more difficult for whatever reason. She also said that college was easier because there is a lot more time to a significantly less amount of work even if it is more difficult.

Just because I did poorly in highschool doesn't mean I can't have an accurate opinion about the difficulty of it. She had over a 4.0 gpa and took all the most difficult classes and graduated a year early with 30 hours of 4.0 college credit. I'm sure if I asked her she would tell me that the only purpose was scholorships. Also just because she did so well in highschool doesn't mean that it wasn't difficult for her.

Since I am fortunate enough to not need scholarships to stay in school I didn't have to spend as much time in highschool wasting my time just to get to the same desitination. I don't particularly care for going to a prestigious school and get an incredibly high paying job because it doesn't take a lot of money to make me happy.

So overall I'm willing to bet I will get a decent job and be happy with 1/100th of the work put into it. Whether or not you think I am a bad person for not taking all of the opportunities I had available to me is up to you.

[MrRubix]

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Harvard does. Nobody else requires you to do all that for admissions. You honestly don't need to take ANY honors or AP courses unless they interest you or are relevant to your major. EDIT: Or you need a scholarship.

Besides, colleges like A's in normal classes more than they like B's/C's in AP and honors courses.

Dude, this is incredibly wrong -- many colleges like to see rigor.

And your second statement is also wrong. They'd rather see the B in the AP class.

[MrGiggles]

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Well then I must've done things so horribly wrong that I ended up doing it right.

I'm almost positive I was told repeatedly that A's in a regular course look better than B's or C's in AP courses. So that's what I did and now I'm kickin it at GCCIS. I applied and they admitted me into one of their most selective programs. Also I took like 4 classes my last year. Maybe I'm just that ****ing awesome.

I'm sure it also varies from college to college. Some value board scores over everything, some value athletics, teachers rec's, grades, whatever.

EDIT: I must be wrong about regular A's vs. AP B/C's though, because everyone else has heard otherwise or maybe it's just my school that accepts lazy fatasses.

[MrRubix]

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All I can say is that colleges do appreciate rigor, and do value a B in an AP over an A in a non-AP course. Rigor is looked upon very favorably, and it's even better if you can do well in those courses. The idea is that the school wants to see how you would perform there. If you only choose easy courses, a school may not really know what your capabilities are. Having all A's in easy courses won't keep you out of college, to be certain, but past a certain point, it will certainly not guarantee you anything, and it may even send a signal that you're lazy (if you can beast easy courses, colleges will wonder why you didn't choose to take the harder courses at your school).

[phe0nixblade]

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You think that's stressful?
ROFL

Try taking AP Chem, AP Biology, APUSH, APLAC, AP Calc BC, Physics Honors, Spanish 4 Honors at your school while taking AP Psychology and AP Comparative Government at your local college..

Couple with speech/debate club, math club, FBLA, varsity tennis, and Robotics Club..

yeah anyways

1) Either be playing something, or working on something. NOTHING IN BETWEEN.
2) If you're gonna play games, play it all at once (1-2 hrs) then focus on homework/school stuff til 11~12PM ish.
3) Don't waste time lurking forums 24/7
4) Quit MMORPGs
5) Quit WoW if you play it

but you're azn so that amount of stuff for you is like kindergarten for us non azn people

[MrGiggles]

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All I can say is that colleges do appreciate rigor

Well, yeah. I was just under the impression that most don't care that much.

[MrRubix]

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I'd say most state schools probably don't care -- having all A's in easy courses will get you in either way. But once you start looking into colleges and universities, they care.

[Izzy]

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I'd say most state schools probably don't care -- having all A's in easy courses will get you in either way. But once you start looking into colleges and universities, they care.

State schools are colleges and universities.