Hey, Im a sophmore in high school and we are doing scheduling right now. I am stuck on what I should take for the next two years of school. I really want to do somthing involving history and music. History first, though. A lot of people say that you need to take four years of math in high school to be accepted by colleges, but I dont think that is true. I will be graduating with the highest diploma, and next year I will be taking trig/stats. Its not like I will be doing a lot of math in my prospected future career. I really want to take as many soc. studies class as possible, including AP courses.
Though, I dont know where to find out what colleges expect from high school students looking to apply. I have been looking on the college website of where I intend to be applying to, but they have nothing for their majors. So, does anyone know where I might be able to find out what I need to take the next two years to be accepted into colleges and what classes I dont need to take, like a fourth year of math or science.
Also, do any of you know of any job or career opportunities for someone interested in music and history, like a music history type of thing. If so, would there be any places that you know of that I could look at? Thanks for the help.
Most colleges like if you take biology, chemistry, and physics. But you NEED 4 years of math. Take the necessary mathematics and science classes and just take the classes you want to major in or like.
For colleges, at my high school it's required for 4 years of math, and 3 years of social studies. I, myself am a social studies nerd (well, American history nerd) and well, I try to take as many classes as possible.
We have a college center which is a counceller of sorts who helps students prepare for college things. So if you have something like that, use it.
Talk to your guidance counceller for scheduling information, they're very resourceful and can help you out a lot. Also if you get a Course of Studies booklet or somesuch look through it, it should have a list of your graduation requirements in it, and good descriptors of what all your high school has to offer.
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Well, at my school, you need 8 credits of math (=8 semesters =4 years) but I took algebra in 8th grade, therfore I only need 6 credits in high school and only need to go up to trig/stats. We also need to take 3 years of science, which I have already taken Biology, zoology this year, and chem. next year. But I wont be doing anything related with math and probably not science at all, and cant I just take a pre-calculus class at college?
Anyway, I am trying as hard as I can to get as many history classes as I can in. So far I have taken Worl Geography preAP and World History preAP, next year I will take AP U.S. and 1 semester of sociology, and senior year I will take AP Euro and gov./econ(probably AP), and maybe a current problems class if possible. I really am trying to stuff my schedule full of social studies classes.
In high school, I only took 3 years of math and 3 maybe 4 years of science (physics, chem, bio, and... that might have been it, actually... i have no idea!). I got accepted as a computer science major... a major that is heavily relient on math. But I soon transfered out of it. I am now an Environmental Science major... which is heavily relient on math...
but if your high school requires 4 years of math, it won't matter because you HAVE to take 4 years. Techniquelly, I would probably suggest taking 4 just in case you change your mind later in your life or if you need math in college for some reason. Also, I wouldn't load up on a bunch of History right now... you will get your fill of it in college...
I'm not a history major or minor, I've only taken 2 history classes, and I'm already full of it!
Yah I only took 3 years of math in high school. My senior year I didnt do anything. It was great. Took one AP class just to balance it out and no math. I like you am big in social studies.
My philosopy senior year, last semester was "as long as I don't fail anything, I'm good... but if I start failing a class, I'm going to make the teacher hate me so she will pass me just to never have to see my face again"...
and it worked! haha... last semester of senior year is the best because it's less important then... say... any semester, ever! However, the bad thing was that with that whole senioritis thing I had, it rubbed off on me for my first semester at college since i was so use to not doing anything and being lazy.
You could even cut a year out of college if you know how to work high school course juggling well. Take all the AP courses you can, and dispense with the fluff. Work hard now when your education is free, so you can save up to a year of college prerequisites and jump directly into material that interests you. Imagine graduating with a years less debt, and getting a head start on the job market! Key classes: calculus, physics, chemistry, english, American history, and a foreign language should be a MINIMUM AP offering in your area. Because these are the core requirements or prerequisites for college graduation that always have the biggest student overload, always conflict with what you want to do, and always start at 8am :S
EDIT: I took the AP Calc AB, AP American History, and AP Physics and saved myself almost a YEAR in prerequisites. Even so I struggled to find an English comp class and a Chemistry class that didn't conflict with my department schedule and ended up having to take a chem lab that started at 7:15 at NIGHT to graduate on time because of my other scheduled coursework and job. So even if you have all that done, you will still have to juggle unless you work hard now to clear it ALL out of the way. If you do the opportunities are endless....working full time and earning awesome cash at a REAL job instead of workstudy arrangements, spending more time studying the subjects you are interested in for a better GPA, even double majoring...everything goes great with pre-engineering or business.
most colleges require only 3 years of math. what classes you take next year depend on what university you want to go to.
for example, if you want to go to berkeley, you should expect to have at least a 2100 SAT and 7 or 8 AP classes total through your high school career. according to the uc guidebook, one would then have about a 50% chance of getting into berkeley.
if you want to go to CalState LA however, that's an entirely different story. you should be concerned simply with maintaing your grades. you don't need anything special to get in just as long as you are doing fair in average difficulty classes, such as chemisty.
if you know that you have had a horrid highschool career and will need to transfer into a university by first going into a community college, you do not need to worry about what classes you take at all. universities will only care about the grades you received in the community college and will ignore your high school results.
the route i have chosen is the berkeley route, in which i have somewhat failed (because of the SAT portion). here is what i AP classes my school accepted me into after trying out (i am a junior):
ap physics h
ap us history h
ap chemistry h
ap language and composition (english)
ap calculus ab
ap art history
here is what i chose and why:
ap chemistry h - it will help on the SAT 2 chemistry test.
ap calculus ab- no choice. only class other than statistics if i want to continue to take math.
ap language and composition- easy class that will let me take ap english again next year in my school without trying out.
ap art history- easy ap class (class, not the test)
As a rule of thumb, you need to be taking math every year if you intend to go to a "good" school. Taking 3 is not gonna cut it. While History and Music might be fun, colleges care more about the "hard" classes.
As a rule of thumb, you need to be taking math every year if you intend to go to a "good" school. Taking 3 is not gonna cut it. While History and Music might be fun, colleges care more about the "hard" classes.
This is true. WTF is the "highest diploma", and who gives it to people who don't take math?
College is all about studying what you want to study. So you might as well get rid of the courses you don't wish to take in High School. Many colleges have mandatory requirements in certain fields (especially math) that can be circumvented with AP courses and their ilk.
i don't think colleges care about 3 years of math as long as you get to calculus. even many competitive colleges are satisfied with pre-cal. in my school, kids who began in algebra 2 for freshman stop at precal during their sophomore.
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Though, I dont know where to find out what colleges expect from high school students looking to apply. I have been looking on the college website of where I intend to be applying to, but they have nothing for their majors. So, does anyone know where I might be able to find out what I need to take the next two years to be accepted into colleges and what classes I dont need to take, like a fourth year of math or science.
Also, do any of you know of any job or career opportunities for someone interested in music and history, like a music history type of thing. If so, would there be any places that you know of that I could look at? Thanks for the help.
We have a college center which is a counceller of sorts who helps students prepare for college things. So if you have something like that, use it.
Talk to your guidance counceller for scheduling information, they're very resourceful and can help you out a lot. Also if you get a Course of Studies booklet or somesuch look through it, it should have a list of your graduation requirements in it, and good descriptors of what all your high school has to offer.
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Anyway, I am trying as hard as I can to get as many history classes as I can in. So far I have taken Worl Geography preAP and World History preAP, next year I will take AP U.S. and 1 semester of sociology, and senior year I will take AP Euro and gov./econ(probably AP), and maybe a current problems class if possible. I really am trying to stuff my schedule full of social studies classes.
but if your high school requires 4 years of math, it won't matter because you HAVE to take 4 years. Techniquelly, I would probably suggest taking 4 just in case you change your mind later in your life or if you need math in college for some reason. Also, I wouldn't load up on a bunch of History right now... you will get your fill of it in college...
I'm not a history major or minor, I've only taken 2 history classes, and I'm already full of it!
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and it worked! haha... last semester of senior year is the best because it's less important then... say... any semester, ever! However, the bad thing was that with that whole senioritis thing I had, it rubbed off on me for my first semester at college since i was so use to not doing anything and being lazy.
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Even if your school didn't make you take 4 years. DO IT. Every college likes mathematics if you don't, you will be in the waiting list or denied.
you should take that 4th year. you never know when it will come in handy.
And english is also important cause spelling is tech...Dilemma
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EDIT: I took the AP Calc AB, AP American History, and AP Physics and saved myself almost a YEAR in prerequisites. Even so I struggled to find an English comp class and a Chemistry class that didn't conflict with my department schedule and ended up having to take a chem lab that started at 7:15 at NIGHT to graduate on time because of my other scheduled coursework and job. So even if you have all that done, you will still have to juggle unless you work hard now to clear it ALL out of the way. If you do the opportunities are endless....working full time and earning awesome cash at a REAL job instead of workstudy arrangements, spending more time studying the subjects you are interested in for a better GPA, even double majoring...everything goes great with pre-engineering or business.
for example, if you want to go to berkeley, you should expect to have at least a 2100 SAT and 7 or 8 AP classes total through your high school career. according to the uc guidebook, one would then have about a 50% chance of getting into berkeley.
if you want to go to CalState LA however, that's an entirely different story. you should be concerned simply with maintaing your grades. you don't need anything special to get in just as long as you are doing fair in average difficulty classes, such as chemisty.
if you know that you have had a horrid highschool career and will need to transfer into a university by first going into a community college, you do not need to worry about what classes you take at all. universities will only care about the grades you received in the community college and will ignore your high school results.
the route i have chosen is the berkeley route, in which i have somewhat failed (because of the SAT portion). here is what i AP classes my school accepted me into after trying out (i am a junior):
ap physics h
ap us history h
ap chemistry h
ap language and composition (english)
ap calculus ab
ap art history
here is what i chose and why:
ap chemistry h - it will help on the SAT 2 chemistry test.
ap calculus ab- no choice. only class other than statistics if i want to continue to take math.
ap language and composition- easy class that will let me take ap english again next year in my school without trying out.
ap art history- easy ap class (class, not the test)
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I concur.
This is true. WTF is the "highest diploma", and who gives it to people who don't take math?
College is all about studying what you want to study. So you might as well get rid of the courses you don't wish to take in High School. Many colleges have mandatory requirements in certain fields (especially math) that can be circumvented with AP courses and their ilk.