high school courses

[cooldog]

does anyone have any recommendations for high school courses i should look into?

[fr4ncium]

Take as much math and computer science as you can!

[cooldog]

why

[Admin]

calculus, physics, typing, and shop too

(just trust us)

[cooldog]

thats a lot

thanks

[SomeSaba]

i wish i knew this as a freshman:

take physics freshman year, then take AP phyz soph year so u can add ur first weighted class (on top of the higher lvl eng and history)
make sure u take the shop classes ur freshman year too cuz *some* colleges dont even look at freshman year, so its better to have the harder classes 10th and 11th

[maverick monk]

dam, if i want calc i gotta take alg2 & trig next year, darn me not taking alg2 as a sophmore

[bens]

Hmm, in my day algebra2 basically was trig...

[maverick monk]

Hmm, in my day algebra2 basically was trig...

actualy... crap you neeed alg2 to take precalc/trig, and precalc to take calc... and i only have 2 years left... o.O

[Asellith]

I only took up to algebra 2 in high school and still made it through my electrical engineering degree. Of course I wouldn't recommend learning trig through calc 2 that was kinda painful. My high school really screwed me over. They failed the class in prealgebra so I had to take it again even though I have a B. Of course I didn't go to a really great school after that but I already knew where I wanted to go anyway and got in there. I did get some funny looks when I took trig after diffy Q. And people still wonder how I got an engineering degree without ever taking geometry. But the more you prepare in high school the better off college will be. I know when I have kids they will will get a good high school education if I have to give it to them myself. I could have been a 4.0 student if I wasn't playing catchup and a little to lazy in college

Johnny B

[david_or_johnny]

Don't take AP Computer Science at school. At most schools it is a joke. Rather, look to a quality state college and take intro comp there, then take the AP exam.