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at least for normal people i'm assuming you failed at the latter part if you hated it so much (just speculating bro) |
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College admissions. Colleges like to see rigor.
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I wasn't that busy in highschool and I still got into ok college :P
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I have found this to not be true. The actual work itself is more difficult, but that isn't what I'm talking about. Maybe if you went to a highschool that didn't assign an excessive amount of busy work.
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I took the hardest **** available at all times and had maybe 6-7 EC's going on throughout the years, but there was still a fair amount of free time. Again, most of it is time management. You could have ****ty time management, and an easy schedule would seem like hell. Spending your time wisely and efficiently will make short work of an otherwise difficult courseload/EC load.
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There's tons of busywork in high school, but I don't consider busywork harder. Really hard assignments/projects in college are much harder than the "difficulty" of shelling through busywork in high school.
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I guess that is your opinion. I find the amount of homework to be more difficult then doing less but more difficult assignments.
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Would you say you have good time management skills?
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No, I wouldn't
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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. Last edited by MrGiggles; 09-16-2009 at 01:42 PM.. |
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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.
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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.
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just get A's in AP courses lmao problem solved
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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.
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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
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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. |
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And your second statement is also wrong. They'd rather see the B in the AP class. Last edited by MrRubix; 09-16-2009 at 06:50 PM.. |
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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. Last edited by MrGiggles; 09-16-2009 at 07:19 PM.. |
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