High School Plan for College Prep - Get Opinion

[MIT00100]

NCSSM (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics) it had the best SAT score in the state. http://www.ncssm.edu/

 

[thrill3rnit3]

I thought you said you were homeschooled?

Anyways, if you are going to attend a high school, I doubt you can take that many courses in a semester, plus you're just over-loading yourself way too much. Maybe use the extra time to do extra-curricular activities.

 

[MIT00100]

NCSSM is strictly a Junior/Senior school. So I will be Homeschooled until that point, at which time I will probably participate in the "learn and earn" program at my CC. Even if I could take all the classes, I'm starting to think I should cut back a couple

 

[MIT00100]

Or I'll try EPGY my Freshman and Sophomore years.

 

[naele]

While it's impressive that a boarding school offers subjects beyond typical AP classes, after browsing the course information it seems that they are merely watered down versions of what is available at universities. The vector calculus course covers in one year what is usually covered in 10 weeks at some universities. The analytical chemistry class doesn't even touch on complex equilibria, instead choosing a shotgun approach of various topics.

OP, you would be re-taking these classes anyway. You would be much better served taking courses at a community college and then entering university 1-2 years earlier than expected than taking watered down classes you would be re-taking anyway. At a community college you can easily knock out your general education requirements while taking pre-med requirements such as physics, chemistry, organic chemistry, biology, anatomy&physiology, etc.

 

[MIT00100]

Thanks, to all who replied. My plan is sort of a love child of sleep deprivation and stress over what I'm doing for High School. I'm really not sure what I should do or what classes to take, that's why I'm posting.

 

[MIT00100]

I was thinking about graduating earlier. But I wasn't sure if I should graduate earlier or attend the school, because I heard that some universities don't like to accept applicants under the age of 18. But you make a very good point so I probably will.

 

[MIT00100]

Thanks again, to all of you! I'm not so freaked out about what I'm going to do in High School now. You all helped immensely! = )

 

[j93]

I suggest that you don't focus too much on your academics (but of course make sure you maintain the A's), but more than anything else, make sure your extracurricular stuff is like no other.

This is awful advice without being qualified with those extracurriculars being long term commitments that form a cohesive picture of who you are and what youre goals are.

If you are interested in science those EC's should be science related and you should do well on them . Win a science fair or compete on AMO and do well.

If youre interested in writing, write and submit it all over the place trying to get published.

The biggest waste of time are a large set of unfocused extracurricular activities.

 

[gb7nash]

Just don't get burnt out, make sure you've got some decent extracurricular activities and you should be fine.

 

[physeven]

i highly doubt you can understand the depth of quantum mechanics without knowing the math behind it, which I'm sure that calculus AB or BC offers. However, another point of inquiry. Why are you taking physics, medicinal chemistry and quantum mechanics? seems like a rather odd combination to me. again, I'm pretty sure you don't have the math requirements to understand quantum mechanics at grade 10. and molecular biology? what do you want to do as a career? seems like you just piled up courses that you found interesting by reading its description and piled them all up, even though your cramming a one year course into one semester.

think about it again, and then decide.

 

[Jokerhelper]

No offense, but did you simply just pick out courses that had interesting titles?

 

[General_Sax]

N-n-n-nnnecro post!