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Title: high school courses
Post by: cooldog on November 29, 2007, 09:29:40 PM
does anyone have any recommendations for high school courses i should look into?
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: fr4ncium on November 29, 2007, 09:41:58 PM
Take as much math and computer science as you can!
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: cooldog on November 29, 2007, 09:43:19 PM
why
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: Admin on November 29, 2007, 09:50:11 PM
calculus, physics, typing, and shop too

(just trust us)
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: cooldog on November 29, 2007, 09:51:36 PM
thats a lot

thanks ;D
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: SomeSaba on November 29, 2007, 10:26:42 PM
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
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: maverick monk on November 30, 2007, 03:33:49 PM
dam, if i want calc i gotta take alg2 & trig next year, darn me not taking alg2 as a sophmore
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: bens on November 30, 2007, 03:35:54 PM
Hmm, in my day algebra2 basically was trig...
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: maverick monk on November 30, 2007, 03:45:44 PM
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
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: Asellith on November 30, 2007, 03:57:21 PM
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
Title: Re: high school courses
Post by: david_or_johnny on December 31, 2007, 10:49:48 PM
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.