Anonymous
08/17/2024 22:47
Subject: Give me your sophomore’s schedule?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If she wants to go to a top college she should definitely complete her Spanish with an AP. If the school offers AP Spanish literature as well as AP Spanish language it may be possible to choose that option, which could possibly be more interesting to her.
My sophomore's schedule from 2 yrs ago looked like this
Honors Pre-calc (this was pre AP version)
Honors Chemistry
French AP
Chinese Honors 3
Honors English 10
AP US History
Foundations of Computer Science (required)
She took half a year of Heath over the summer to keep it out of her schedule.
That schedule is hell. OP, this is not normal.
It's normal at Whitman.
No, it’s not. I have a rising Sr at Whitman. Usually students focus on one language and the an AP language is jr or sr year. It does happen, but it’s unusual. Usually the student is already fluent in the language.
DC took the following which is pretty normal - hon English
-hon precalc
-hon chemistry
-APUSH
-language
-art requirement
-health or computer science requirement
It was normal for both my kids, this version you've written is more akin to remedial kid classes.
Who says things like then, especially when the schedule indicates Honors and AP classes.
Honors & AP account for only 50% of that schedule. The rest:
-language
-art requirement
-health or computer science requirement
Yet all are graduation requirements. A kid doesn’t have to take all Honors and AP classes and most don’t for Art or Tech credit.
Correct. And the ambitious kids are taking health online over the summer / outside of school, same for CompSci.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 21:16
Subject: Give me your sophomore’s schedule?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If she wants to go to a top college she should definitely complete her Spanish with an AP. If the school offers AP Spanish literature as well as AP Spanish language it may be possible to choose that option, which could possibly be more interesting to her.
My sophomore's schedule from 2 yrs ago looked like this
Honors Pre-calc (this was pre AP version)
Honors Chemistry
French AP
Chinese Honors 3
Honors English 10
AP US History
Foundations of Computer Science (required)
She took half a year of Heath over the summer to keep it out of her schedule.
That schedule is hell. OP, this is not normal.
It's normal at Whitman.
No, it’s not. I have a rising Sr at Whitman. Usually students focus on one language and the an AP language is jr or sr year. It does happen, but it’s unusual. Usually the student is already fluent in the language.
DC took the following which is pretty normal - hon English
-hon precalc
-hon chemistry
-APUSH
-language
-art requirement
-health or computer science requirement
It was normal for both my kids, this version you've written is more akin to remedial kid classes.
Who says things like then, especially when the schedule indicates Honors and AP classes.
Honors & AP account for only 50% of that schedule. The rest:
-language
-art requirement
-health or computer science requirement
It was my DC who took these classes in 10th grade. The language and art requirements were honors not that I think that matters.
I have one at Whitman and one in private (their choice), and the private schools don’t push AP classes for the sake of taking advance classes. The result is that our DC in private is more well rounded than many of the advanced students at Whitman who are balls of stress. I prefer the approach many private schools in the area take, but reasonable people can differ.