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[Azathoth]

I'm programming regular courses for my Senior Year fall term! You must help me choooooose!

Here's the background as best as I can explain it:


10 periods in a school day
I'm taking AP Government and AP Economics; what this means is that in the Fall Term I take Government and Macroeconomics, and in the Spring Term I take Comparative Government and Microeconomics (so 2 periods per term for Gov and Econ)
1 period lunch
For our senior year, we are supposed to have a 10-Tech (you don't need to know); so, for one term (say Fall) we would have the 10-Tech, and then a Physical Education class (such as Swim Gym, Regular Gym, Ballroom Dancing, etc.); I think, but am not sure, that the 10-Tech is 2 periods; the point is, I'm taking a full-year Networking/Advanced Comp Tech class, so the way that works is probably as such: 2 periods Fall Term, then 1 period Spring Term with the other period occupied by Physical Education; so I'll tentatively say 2 periods per term

Senior Year English is probably the epitome of English at Stuyvesant. (duh).
CORE English for seniors is a required one term of English out of a certain selection of courses. For those of you taking AP English, you don’t need to worry about it. Everyone else, you MUST take either Early British Literature (fall), Late British and World Literature (spring), Shakespearean Literature, or Victorian Literature. This can be either term.
If you want more information on who teaches what, etc I don’t have much information to offer. However, I do hear Victorian sucks. Early British and Late British are pretty standard across the board and plenty people take it. Shakespearean is taught by Mr. Mott. That’s all I’m going to say about it. I think I'll just take Early Brit here; 1 period down
I've completed my 3 years of a World Language (culminating in this Thursday's Spanish AP exam; it was pretty :furious3:)
I don't think I'm required to take any Math, but I will sign up for Calculus Applications, aka AP Calc AB for Morons; 1 more period down
I have taken AP Compsci and am eligible for Systems Programming and Computer Graphics
So now I have should have 3 free slots left for other classes, but I'm seeing 4 available (2 elective, 1 senior elective, 1 science elective); so we're working with 3 frees most likely, and I want ONE (1) free, so that in effect leaves 2

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[Azathoth]

Well then, here's the site with all the courses. (http://www.stuy.edu/departments.php)

I'm just going to list all the classes I might ever want to take. That's what you have to work with. I don't want any wiseguys recommending Meteorology or the Wall Street course.

Let's deal with these by subject :

English: I've already got the Core course for this subject, but Science Fiction & Fantasy looks interesting.

Science: Here it gets crazy. I'm interested in Anthropology & Sociobiology, Neurobiology, Nutrition Science, Human Diseases I, Organic Chemistry I, and Physical Chemistry. I'm a little iffy on Human Diseases and Organic Chemistry, both of which have a (non-mandatory) follow-up course. I also hear Human Diseases, Anthropology, and Physical Chemistry are quite demanding. Ordered by decreasing level of interest.

Math: Done. Side note: they're not listed on the site, but two Math courses called Mathematical Explorations and Mathematics of Financial Markets are available. lol

Tech: Done.

Language: No.

Comp Sci: Systems Programming, pretty much. And if I took it I'd feel obligated to do Computer Graphics in the spring. I did suck really badly at Java in AP Compsci, though we would use C or C++ in those two courses. Heheh, and we would have to learn C/C++ in a few weeks (as opposed to 1 year for Java), and Java is supposed to be an easier language comparatively.

Social Studies: Geopolitics, Modern China, New York History, and Jewish History, same ordering method as before. Jewish History doesn't show up in my course registration menu, and I actually would have really liked to do New York History, but the class involves taking numerous field trips, which would cause me to miss my other classes. So it's really a toss-up between Geopolitics and Modern China.

[Reenk Roink]

What do you want to do in college will really influence your answers. If you're going to be doing any kind of math or science in college, you might as well bite the bullet and take as many of those classes you can in high school to get a background in them. You may even find yourself repeating some of the same material over in college but it beats learning stuff for the first time under pressure.

For the default answer, take the most blow off semester you possibly can (if you were already accepted into college) and relax. :cool:

[Azathoth]

What do you want to do in college will really influence your answers.

No idea brah. And I'm just a Junior, we don't begin applying until well into the Fall.

[Reenk Roink]

My bad, I don't know why but I was thinking you meant 2nd semester senior year. :tongue:

One of the most important things in colleges look at is your course selection and workload, so if you take a lot of APs they will be happy. I'm pretty sure BC Calc is the holy grail in terms of course selection.

If you think you will be doing any kind of economics, engineering, or science in college, go ahead and take Calc in high school. It will help you a lot (coming from a person who decided not to take any Calc in high school and then did the full sequence in college :sad:). I know you said you wanted to take AB, but I remember my precalc teacher telling us that in 1 semester of AB you go ahead and learn a lot of the stuff you would in the second semester of BC (just in a less rigorous way). So I would consider BC if you think you are up to it. Remember that your grades in college are a lot more important than those in highschool and having the background may be helpful to get you good grades later on.

Geopolitics sounds good and might have application for Poli-sci. If you're more interested in any other history subject though, go for it.

For science, Organic Chem and Physical Chem would be the most helpful if you're looking towards the future (again science, engineering) but otherwise Neurobiology is pretty interesting and not as bad.

[Azathoth]

Ok, all possible considerations. Remember that I don't have an inkling of what sort of career I want to go into. These classes just cover subjects that interest me.

One clarification: I'm going to take Calculus Applications, which is easier than AP Calculus AB. AP registration is long past. In fact, I'm never going to be able to sign up for another AP until I get to college. If I really have to, I'll do it there.

[Subotan]

Modern China, without question.

[Azathoth]

After some painful consideration I have decided to take Anthro and Modern China. I hope Geopolitics is available in the spring.

[Megas Methuselah]

I read an article on modern China in the National Geographic that was dated from 1980, so if you ever have any questions, I'm yo man.