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[Zrk2]

...Yeah, I'm going up the road hopefully for nuclear engineering or some other form of engineering, it's a good school but it's still new.

[Strife26]

Dammit forums. I feel bad about myself again. And I was second place in my big high school for number of AP tests.

European History (10)
United States History (11)

English  (12)
Calculus (I don't remember if it was AB or BC)
Physics
Microeconomy
US Government


I think that I can still claim most overpreparred for my current job, though.

[mainiac]

AP courses are great.  So are CLEP (College Level Examination Program) tests.  My biggest regret about college is not taking a buttload of these my freshman year.  They are pretty darn easy and they let you replace an entire introduction level course with just one test.  I'm not advising you to skip over all the intro level courses.  They're good for easing yourself into the shock of the college environment.  But CLEP tests are pretty cheap and give you lots of flexibility to explore your college options.

[RedKing]

It's ancient history now, but I took

World History (5)
US History (5)
English (4)
AB Calculus  (5)
AB Calculus (5)

Don't think they had half the courses you guys are listing back then. Didn't take any AP science courses, cause I opted out of that track in high school so I could focus on our video/film program (back when I thought I wanted to be a filmmaker).

Nice thing was that since I went into a social science/humanities degree, and the all-campus prereq's only called for 6 hrs of math, I never had to take another math course again. I finally took a statistics class in grad school, just to bolster my research skills.

[mainiac]

Statistics is a course that I would recommend for everyone even if they aren't planning to take any other math courses.  Great stuff to understand.

[ext0l]

Chinese 5
Stats 5
CompSci 5
Physics B 5

This year I have
Chemistry
Calculus BC
US History
Biology

[Heron TSG]

My school doesn't offer AP, but I went to a nearby school and took the Japanese one about a month ago. If we're just counting college credits earned while in high school though, I have that in spades.

Japanese 101 (5)
Pre-Calculus 1 (5)
Pre-Calculus 2 (5)
Calculus 1 (5)
Calculus 2 (5)
Physics 101 (5)
Physics 111 (5)
Interpersonal Communications 227 (5)
Money Management 114 (5)
Health 101 (3)
Western Civ 117 (5)
Western Civ 118 (5)
English 101 (5)
English 102 (5)
Psychology 101 (5)
Cross-Training (2)
Astronomy 101 (5)
Geography 230 (5)
Intercultural Communications 227 (5)
Electronics Courses Total (21)

106 credits so far out of the 90 I need for my AA. I decided to not finish this year so that I could stay enrolled next year and get in more prerequisites for a future degree. I only have one Humanities class to take next year before I technically qualify for my AA. I'll also be continuing with such classes as Physics 201, Physics 211, Calculus 3, and Statistics.

I get bored, okay?

[Vector]

Try to get into Harvard.  They might actually let you in.

[Patchouli]

I took Composition and got a 5 in it.

That's it.

[Heron TSG]

Try to get into Harvard.  They might actually let you in.

I haven't actually heard anything from Harvard, but I hear a bunch of the Ivy League schools have programs for paying tuition for kids from low income families like myself. I'll probably apply there just to find out if I would be accepted, but right now I'm considering west coast schools like Berkeley, Stanford, or University of Washington. The east coast is very far from home, and I would know next to nobody when I got there. I have a friend that's in about the same place, though, so we might see if we both get in and end up going to the same school.

[Vector]

Oh, don't go to fucking Stanford.  God.  That town has the worst atmosphere.

Ugh, listening about the college acceptance process is making me annoyed.  Good luck with your interviews and don't act weird.

[SalmonGod]

I didn't take any AP courses, despite being totally qualified and smarter than many of the academic overachievers I knew...

My sophomore year I was still at that terrible school where my social problems and hatred for the education system and establishment in general were hitting their climax, and there was no academic value to be found there anyway even if I hadn't had such problems.

My junior year was spent starting over at a new school and coping with the social dysfunction and hatred that the last place had loaded on me.

My senior year I was getting better and could have done more for myself... but I suddenly found myself caring for a close friend (as in literally living with me and my family) in the midst of an epic two-year long emotional breakdown, who hit my life like a freight train and took all of my time and energy.  All of it.

[Vector]

I didn't take any AP courses, despite being totally qualified and smarter than many of the academic overachievers I knew...

My sophomore year I was still at that terrible school where my social problems and hatred for the education system and establishment in general were hitting their climax, and there was no academic value to be found there anyway even if I hadn't had such problems.

My junior year was spent starting over at a new school and coping with the social dysfunction and hatred that the last place had loaded on me.

My senior year I was getting better and could have done more for myself... but I suddenly found myself caring for a close friend (as in literally living with me and my family) in the midst of an epic two-year long emotional breakdown, who hit my life like a freight train and took all of my time and energy.  All of it.

You know where it is at.  Well done.

(Non-sarcastically)

I'm scared I'm not going to be accepted into good universities for grad school because I spent two years being (very) emotionally abused by a couple of people, to the point where I apparently almost went insane.  It dropped me from the A and B range to B and C; and then, this past semester, I've been dismantling the hurtful misogynist stereotypes that had also been damaging me as a person.

But I don't think colleges care about that much.

[Tellemurius]

Yea i just took Chemistry and Pschology for the lulz, bomb the classes but got 5 on the exams O_o

[SalmonGod]

But I don't think colleges care about that much.

Yeah.  I've discovered that as well.  Of course, it doesn't help when you can't even adequately explain the context of your life without betraying someone.